LK Advani’s Blog

In most of my speeches during the current election campaign I have been referring to the BJP’s Information Technology Vision, and trying to explain to the people how this latest gift of man’s ingenuity in the field of science has presented our country with a unique opportunity to overcome the many daunting challenges in socio-economic development.

The BJP’s IT Vision, we have promised the people, will help India (a) overcome the current economic crisis; (b) create productive employment on a large scale; (c) accelerate human development through vastly improved and expanded education and healthcare services; (d) check corruption and (e) make India’s national security more robust.

This week when I addressed a massive meeting at India’s principal IT Centre Bangalore, I recalled how for ages now the biggest invention in the history of science has been supposed to be the WHEEL. I observed that based on what we have been witnessing and experiencing in the past two decades, it would have to be acknowledged that the COMPUTER CHIP has displaced the Wheel!

An extremely interesting book I have come across lately is one titled 1000 Years 1000 people. The book is not just a compilation of names of the thousand leading persons of the last millennium; it actually has done a meticulous ranking of the men and women who shaped the Click to Read More

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• It is in giving that we receive.

• If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

• It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

• It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

• Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

• While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

• I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

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St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is one of the most beloved and respected Christian saints. Known for his piety, simplicity and humility, his words of wisdom have an everlasting sheen. His love for birds, animals, trees and all the creations of God is legendary. One day, while St. Francis was traveling with some companions, they happened upon a place in the road where birds filled the trees on either side. He told his companions to “wait for me while I go to Click to Read More

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