Global Indians..

Indians everywhere should become enlightened International citizens. Wherever you are, whichever country you live, enrich that nation, not only in financial terms, but also with your sweat knowledge and dignity since that is the tradition of the country from where you came. At the same time, remember we have a common umbilical connectivity to our motherland, India.

A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India.


How can we help building our nation?

1. By helping Indians abroad in whatever way possible. Our south Indian brothers are good in this quality. I am not sure about rest of the India.

2. Sharing our knowledge with our brothers and sisters back home.

3. Helping our Indian counterparts back home to improve the system there.

4. When you visit home, go to schools and encourage the students for studies and extracurricular activities.

5. If we have very patriotic ideology it will automatically stimulate lots of friends and relatives back home. If we just care for ourselves, it won’t help improve situation from our side.

6. We should always try to talk and greet each other in foreign countries. (If the opposite person turns out Pakistani or Bengali, we won’t loose anything!) The usual trend is just to look at each other and behave as if we are not related in any way. We can at least give smile to each other and try to greet and speak if possible. Through this we can share ideas and come closer.

7. Economic activities- I think this is the main area where we can help our nation.

a. Indian banks- I know they are not as competitive as the foreign banks. But if we give them fair chance, they might improve with time and perform better. Just to let you know they do give good competitive interest rates and good services.

b. Indian investment- Investing in India is a very good idea, especially in current situation of rapidly growing economy. We can either invest in stock market or property. Few of us might want to start business in India or abroad, which gives extra income to our country.

c. Regular donations- Nobody will disagree to the great spiritual advice given by every religion that we must donate a part of our earning for poor and needy. Donating money to temples, churches or mosques is not going to help improve our country. We must be very serious about where the money should be donated. There are high chances that whatever you donate for the cause of good wont reach to the actual site of action. That is the reason I mentioned initially that donating in the name of religion is not the best way. This money might be used for the destruction of our communal harmony, you never know.

I have few suggestions-

A. Direct help- Try to help as much directly as possible. For example, during your home visit you can visit the location and donate in the form of actual material, books, instruments, medicine or any other facility. It would be more effective than donating money to somebody.

B. The organizations you know very well- we must keep our senses open about what’s happening where and decide accordingly. You might hear or read about somebody working sincerely for noble cause and you can support his or her activity in a way you can.

C. Your own efforts/ organization- here is a simple example of one such effort. Though this is in very premature stage at the moment, you might want to start with at least something. Something is better than nothing!
Please go to www.samyaktrust.blogspot.com to see the example of this kind.

D. Adopting child/ children for education purpose- we can support education of children by adopting them for education (not the actual adoption). Believe me, it costs very less to support this if you earning in stronger currency. Please see the explanation given in my article in the above website under heading of- To help poor schoolgirls in rural India for education.

Please feel free to express yourself, if you have any other idea for these purposes. Do drop a mail on-
noopisang@aol.com