Paritrana
Paritrana - this is neither a bollywood flick nor the next hot thing after Mallika Sherawat. It’s a political party.
January 20, 2006 might be a very important day for all of us Indians. Just how important? I am not sure. Guess it is in our hands and the guys behind Paritrana(via youthcurry).
At a time when every Kandaswamy, Kuppuswamy and Madaswami is thinking about important things like home loans, salary hike, Vettayadu Vilayadu, Shivaji, Asin and Virender Sehwag, 5 IITians and a Chennai born US educated economics expert have come together to form Paritrana (meaning complete relief, implying the end of the very cause of distress). They’ve chosen to make India better rather than mourn about it.
It’s not as if these guys can make India better because of their IIT background.
IIT is merely a tag. I guess it just shows that they indeed have better options than politics if they want. It’s not that you need an IIT B Tech to bring about a better India. Kamaraj was not even school educated, but his rule in Tamil Nadu is still the benchmark.
But I need to cling to something to be optimistic about this country. So any small act of unselfishness, any non-materialistic behavior should be appreciated, celebrated, and supported in whatever little means. India can’t have enough of these guys. These guys could’ve gotten away out of India rather easily, much more easily than me. Nothing wrong if they’d gone either. But their choices and their decisions makes me be a little less selfish in my day-to-day acts.
Some 20 years back M S Udayamurthy returned from US and started a movement called Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam in Tiruvanmiyur. K Balachander even made a movie loosely based on MSU (Unnal Mudiyum Thambi). I wonder what happened to Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam now. Let’s see. I am optimistic this time.
Maybe these are the guys Vivekananda talked about.
‘What makes you think so?’ you might ask. ‘Why not?’ is my retort.
As I keep saying often, I am optimistic, for I don’t have an option.
January 28th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
I can’t agree better PK.
MSI is one, Paritrana is another. And there is another one, based in Coimbatore called AIMS India foundation (http://www.aimsindia.net/). And another one that was on news before is: Bharat Uday Mission http://www.bharatudaymission.org/.
January 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
so prabhu have u joined their party???
January 29th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Few years one of my friend left his software career in US and went back to India to take active part in Politics and bring good things to people. His parents gave him left and right and he later joined a multi national company in Bombay and never thought about Politics again.
After that, I am now hearing some ex-IITians joining together. Nice to hear. Let us wait and see. Atleast there are few to bell the cat. H O P E the best.
January 30th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
NK
aims is news to me. let me check out. thanks for the info
paurna
i need to check my employer terms and conditions. sent my app form though:)
balaji sir
how many stories have we read abt corruption?
as u say, its surely nice to hear.