DreamWeaver
6th August 2008, 01:52 PM
Just stumbled upon this:
TN Seshan was once asked:
Q. Do you vote?
Seshan : No I don’t. Because democracy is dead. But yet there is hope.
:adore: :adore: :adore:
I wonder what hope means here if the ex Chief Election Commissioner himself would not vote!
Source: http://www.iimcal.ac.in/imz/imz-archive/article.asp?id=Seshan
Some other interesting excerpts:
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I scored 452/600 in my final exam. The boy who scored 451, 1 mark less than me, is now a station master. I had 100% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Maths. Yet, in my Engineering College Admission Interview, I was not selected because I could not name the first movie of Shivaji Ganesan.
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Q. Why did you contest for the Presidency, knowing fully well that you couldn’t succeed?
Seshan : When I was in elementary school, I had zero sporting ability. I still contested the High Jump.
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There was a day when I was transferred SIX times between 10 am and 6 pm. From Rural Development, to Finance, to Small Savings, to Agriculture, to Harijan Welfare, to Backward Classes and finally to Women’s Development. Once a minister transferred me from Industry to Agriculture, purely because he wanted to shift me from the 10th to the 1st floor. So I went to him and said, “Why don’t you shift me to the ground floor?” He was appalled. “But the ground floor is the car park, Seshan!” I said, “Does it matter? I could look after the car park you know”
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In reality, it does not matter whichever job you do. Only do a good job out of it.
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The biggest folly we committed in our urgency for freedom, was to agree to Partition. Partition was terrible - not because it resulted in loss of life and property, but because for the first time, it taught us that Hindus and Muslims are separate. The only man who had the sense to say that we will wait for our freedom and not agree to Partition was Rajaji, and he was duly silenced.
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:thumbup:
TN Seshan was once asked:
Q. Do you vote?
Seshan : No I don’t. Because democracy is dead. But yet there is hope.
:adore: :adore: :adore:
I wonder what hope means here if the ex Chief Election Commissioner himself would not vote!
Source: http://www.iimcal.ac.in/imz/imz-archive/article.asp?id=Seshan
Some other interesting excerpts:
-----
I scored 452/600 in my final exam. The boy who scored 451, 1 mark less than me, is now a station master. I had 100% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Maths. Yet, in my Engineering College Admission Interview, I was not selected because I could not name the first movie of Shivaji Ganesan.
-----
Q. Why did you contest for the Presidency, knowing fully well that you couldn’t succeed?
Seshan : When I was in elementary school, I had zero sporting ability. I still contested the High Jump.
-----
There was a day when I was transferred SIX times between 10 am and 6 pm. From Rural Development, to Finance, to Small Savings, to Agriculture, to Harijan Welfare, to Backward Classes and finally to Women’s Development. Once a minister transferred me from Industry to Agriculture, purely because he wanted to shift me from the 10th to the 1st floor. So I went to him and said, “Why don’t you shift me to the ground floor?” He was appalled. “But the ground floor is the car park, Seshan!” I said, “Does it matter? I could look after the car park you know”
-----
In reality, it does not matter whichever job you do. Only do a good job out of it.
-----
The biggest folly we committed in our urgency for freedom, was to agree to Partition. Partition was terrible - not because it resulted in loss of life and property, but because for the first time, it taught us that Hindus and Muslims are separate. The only man who had the sense to say that we will wait for our freedom and not agree to Partition was Rajaji, and he was duly silenced.
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:thumbup: