Happy EID & Ganesh Utsav

Youth Club Wishes You Happy EID & Ganesh Utsav, May this festive seasons Brings you Money, Peace and Success. ~Youth Club

Happy Teachers Day (Dr Radha Krishnan)

"A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science":- Dr Krishnan

Born: September 5, 1888
Died: April 17, 1975
Achievements: First Vice President and second President of India. Placed Indian philosophy on world map.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was first Vice President of India and second President of India. He was also a philosopher and introduced the thinking of western idealist philosophers into Indian thought. He was a famous teacher and his birthday is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born on September 5, 1888 at Tirutani, Madras in a poor Brahmin family. As his father was poor Radhakrishnan supported most of his education through scholarships. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan had his early education at Gowdie School, Tiruvallur and then went to the Lutheran Mission School in Tirupati for his high school. He joined the Voorhee's College in Vellore and later switched to the Madras Christian College. He chose Philosophy as his major subject and did his B.A. and M.A. in it.

After completing his M.A., Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, accepted an Assistant Lectureship at the Madras Presidency College in 1909. In college, he mastered the classics of Hindu philosophy, namely the Upanishads, Bhagvad Gita, Brahmasutra, and commentaries of Sankara, Ramunuja and Madhava. He also acquainted himself with Buddhist and Jain philosophy and philosophies of Western thinkers such as Plato, Plotinus, Kant, Bradley, and Bergson.

In 1918, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was selected as Professor of Philosophy by the University of Mysore. In 1921, Radhakrishnan was nominated as Professor of Philosophy at the Calcutta University, 1921. In 1923, Dr. Radhakrishnan's book "Indian Philosophy" was published. The book was hailed as a "philosophical classic and a literary masterpiece."

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was called to Oxford University, to deliver lectures on Hindu philosophy. He used his lectures as a platform to further India's cause for freedom. He also argued that Western philosophers, despite all claims to objectivity, were biased by theological influences from their wider culture. He showed that Indian philosophy, once translated into standard academic jargon, is worthy of being called philosophy by Western standards. He thus placed Indian Philosophy on world map.

In 1931, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected Vice Chancellor of the Andhra University. In 1939, Radhakrishnan became the Vice Chancellor of the Benaras Hindu University. In 1946, he was appointed as Ambassador to UNESCO. After Independence Dr. Radhakrishnan was requested to Chair the University Education Commission in 1948. The Radhakrishnan Committee's suggestions helped mould the education system for India's needs.

In 1949, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was appointed ambassador to the Soviet Union. He helped laid the foundation for a strong relationship with Soviet Union. Radhakrishnan was elected first Vice-President of India in 1952. He was honored with the Bharat Ratna in 1954. After serving two terms as Vice-President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected President of India in 1962. During his tenure as President India fought wars with China and Pakistan. As President he helped see India through those trying years safely. He retired as President in 1967 and settled in Madras.

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan died on April 17, 1975.

Biography of Rajiv Gandhi (Sadbhawana Divas)

"And now, after the end of colonial servitude, our young nation is showing afresh the vitality of Endeavor to build a new, fuller life for our people." Rajiv Gandhi

Born: August 20, 1944
Martyrdom: May 21, 1991
Achievements: Became Prime Minister of India at the age of 40. Led Congress to its greatest victory in the Lok Sabha elections, winning about 80 per cent of seats. Played a key role in the introduction of computers in India.

Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India. He became Prime Minister at the age of 40. Rajiv Gandhi came from a family that had great political lineage. He was the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi. Her mother Indira Gandhi and grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were Prime Ministers of India. As a Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made a valuable contribution in modernizing Indian administration. He had the vision and foresight to see that information technology will play a key role in the 21 century and worked actively to develop India's capacity in this realm.

Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944 in Bombay (Mumbai) in India's most famous political family. His grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru played a stellar role in India's freedom struggle and became independent India's first Prime Minister. His parents lived separately and Rajiv Gandhi was raised at his grandfather's home where her mother lived. Rajeev Gandhi did his schooling from the elite Doon school and then studied at the University of London and at Trinity College, Cambridge in Britain. At Cambridge, Rajiv Ghandi met and fell in love with an Italian student Sonia Maino and they got married in 1969.

Returning to India, Rajeev Ghandi became a commercial airline pilot. His younger brother Sanjay Gandhi entered politics and became a trusted lieutenant of her mother Indira Gandhi. After Sanjay's death in a plane crash in 1980, Rajiv reluctantly entered politics at the instance of his mother. He won his first Lok Sabha election in 1981 from Amethi-the erstwhile constituency of his brother. Soon he became the General Secretary of the Congress Party. After the assassination of Indira Gandhi in October 1984 he became the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40. He called for general elections in 1984 and riding on a massive sympathy wave led Congress to a thumping victory. Congress garnered 80 percent of the seats in the lower house and achieved its greatest victory since independence.

In his initial days as Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi was immensely popular. During his tenure as Prime Minister of India, he brought a certain dynamism to the premiership, which had always been occupied by older people. He is credited with promoting the introduction of computers in India. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi began leading in a direction significantly different from Indira Gandhi's socialism. He improved bilateral relations with the United States and expanded economic and scientific cooperation. He increased government support for science and technology and associated industries, and reduced import quotas, taxes and tariffs on technology-based industries, especially computers, airlines, defence and telecommunications. He worked towards reducing the red tape in the governance and freeing administration from bureaucratic tangles. In 1986, Rajiv Gandhi announced a national education policy to modernize and expand higher education programs across India.

Rajiv Gandhi authorised an extensive police and army campaign against the militants in Punjab. Rajiv's government suffered a major setback when its efforts to broker peace between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE rebels backfired. As per the peace accords signed in 1987, the LTTE would disarm to the Indian Peace Keeping Force which was sent to Sri Lanka. But distrust and a few incidents of conflict broke out into open fighting between the LTTE militants and Indian soldiers. Over a thousand Indian soldiers were killed, and at last Rajiv Gandhi had to pull out Indian forces from Sri Lanka. It was a failure of Rajiv's diplomacy.

Although Rajeev Gandhi promised to end corruption, he and his party were themselves implicated in corruption scandals. The major scandal being Bofors Gun scandal involving alleged payoffs by the Swedish Bofors arms company. The scandal rapidly eroded his popularity and he lost the next general elections held in 1989. A coalition comprising government came to the power but it could not last its full term and general elections were called in 1991. While campaigning for elections in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 by a suicide bomber belonging to LTTE .

Ever Year India Celebrates his Birth Day as a "Sadbhawana Diwas" in the memory of Late Rajiv Gandhi.

Happy Independence Day

Youth Club Wishes You 64th Independence Day of India.

Some Quotes:-

1."India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire." Mark Twain

2."We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?"Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian Declaration of Independence, on eve of independence, August 15 1947.

A Letter to Nation (Youth Club)

Hello to All,

I would like to take this opportunity to share our views As a Founder of Youth Club and a citizen of India with you all. Youth Club is working science 2006 for the betterment of Society especially for Youth.

This is the high time that we all should think and act on the present condition of our nation. It is very difficult to see our mother earth getting ruined by man made mistakes, which could have been avoided by our responsible positive acts. We keep on blaming politicians, government, their policies, officers and others but we do not see our own responsibility towards our nation. Ask yourself first

Am I good responsible awakened citizen of India?

Have I contributed directly or indirectly for the growth of Nation?

If we see current status of our country, it is really shocking, disturbing and disgusting to all of us. We see failure in all sectors and systems. One in every two children in India is malnourished (UNICEF); here nodal agencies are making disastrous policy proposals to Government. Food security and self-sufficiency totally depends on production, procurement and distribution, today these are all in a failure state. It is hard to believe that the rate of food grain production falling below the rate of population growth.

24% of global diseases are caused by environmental exposures.13 million people die in every year due to reasons that can be easily avoided (WHO). HIV is big threat to the whole world .In this we have topped in all over the world. Soft drink industry is a major threat to precious ground water resources which common people use for drinking and irrigation purposes.

If we see ancient civilization, they worked on growing the internal self of man so that he remains liberated from the surroundings and events with the purpose of lifting up the life values of man in best proper way; that too without intervening in the normal flow of nature.

Now in modernization age, our purpose has shifted to fulfill our endless desires .In due course we lost the life values and exploited the nature. Nature lost its balance. Communication of man and nature is cut off.

We are losing the protective layer of ozone .Important factor is considered here is A/C(Air Condition).which we use in our house for our comfort. It releases A.F.C.and other hazardous gases in atmosphere. The average temperature of the Whole world has been increased by around 5-6deg.C.in last few years. On one side we see increase in GNP and GDP rate; but on other side we see there is increase in death due to malnourishment and unavailability of food in our country.

This all is caused due to superficial, improper knowledge and lack of awareness in the desperate effort for winning in the competition with others. We have been constantly working to walk with western countries thinking that success lies by being equivalent to them. Our materialistic mind thinks that intervening into the nature lays the success of the human beings. We forgot; What India has originally inherent gifts from the god? If we work on our true nature, no one can stop the Indians from their success.

We all need a change from this to survive on this god made beautiful planet earth with pride of unique human existence on earth. We have become insensitive to ourselves, others and to surroundings.

Our actions should be properly directed for the betterment of world. We must discover the ways to overcome it. We strongly believe these problems occurred due to unhappiness and endless craving of individuals .This can be erased only by union of man with the nature’s consciousness   to that creator’s consciousness .Spiritual thinking will not solve it; but it requires spiritual actions by spiritual state of human being. The purpose of initiating this movement is bringing that change in all of us by our sincere and serious efforts. We founded Youth Club and Wanted to register our group as an NGO.

We ask all of you who can contribute urgently and come forward to join us. We feel that this work is integral part of our consciousness and be passed on to all, urgently. The Youth Club is currently actively working in Bihar (Lakhisarai Distt.) but very soon we are going to expand our Youth Club with your help in all over India and does various social activities with only purpose to bring transformation Youth Club has been founded to show a new way to the whole world by Indian awakened youths for the global peace.

Your feedback and suggestion appreciated!!

Thanks!

Apurv Gourav

(On Behalf of Youth Club)

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SC: Sale of helmets with bikes a must

NEW DELHI: Two-wheeler makers will now have to sell a helmet along with their bikes and scooters after the Supreme Court dismissed a plea by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) against such a step.

A bench comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice A K Ganguly dismissed the petition filed by the SIAM challenging an earlier order of the Delhi High Court.

The apex court said the manufacturers would have to give BSI certified helmets as “original equipment”.

On July 30, 2009, the HC made it mandatory for dealers to sell helmets along with new two-wheelers and said that the vehicle would not be registered by the authorities without it. SIAM contended that the HC order would restrict the people’s choice to buy their own helmet.

Sources:- Times of India