The Culture of Five Positives

01 Jul:     Life is a bed of rosebushes, and it is up to us to what extent we can make it a bed of roses.    02 Jul: From among the mice, the one that is not a mouse at heart will bell the cat. 03 Jul:    Doing anything, pursue perfection; you should be satisfied, though, if you end up with excellence or even competence. But another task must see another pursuit of perfection.     04 Jul:     No nation has ever achieved greatness without striving for it for decades, single-mindedly and ceaselessly. As for India, the journey to regain our long lost greatness has begun only now; but we will get there, this is for sure.   05 Jul:      When the odds seem against, we may still undertake the task to see how far we can go before meeting the dead end. We would, perhaps, discover that there was no dead end.     06 Jul:      So long as we are living, all can never be lost. In ...

For India to be Aatmanirbhar (self-dependent), it is essential that the country's top young talents, the B.Tech. students at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), and 20 other top engineering colleges like the Birla Institute of Technology and Science at Pilani, Vellore Institute of Technology at Vellore, and Netaji Subhas University of Technology at Delhi, are engaged in doing ably-supervised, intensive research to find technological solutions to India's myriad problems, creating, in the process, precious intellectual property which would be entirely India's own. Becoming a technology-maker and seller would be a great break from our traditional role of a technology-taker and buyer. Presently, hardly any research has to be pursued by B.Tech. students as a part of their course requirement. After graduation, for pursuing higher studies in science and technology and doing research, IIT graduates and, to an appreciable extent,...