TODAY'S PAPER » NATIONAL MADURAI, September 24, 2012
Campaign on patriotism..
To strengthen patriotic feelings among Indians...
To create a movement to strengthen patriotism among Indians, instil ideals to enable individual and national transformation and educate Indians about treasures of the past, Chinmaya Mission launched a campaign here on Sunday.
Commissioner of Police Sanjay Mathur releasing a book in Madurai on Sunday.Photo: G. Moorthy.
Rishi Chaitanya of Chinmaya International Residential School, Coimbatore, said that it involved three stages, each lasting an year, with the ultimate aim of ridding India of corruption, lack of civic sense, drug abuse, depression and abandonment of elders. The first phase involved a quiz contest on a book titled “Transforming Indians to Transform India” which comprises seven short stories that explore seven different dimensions of the human personality. In the second year of 2014, seminars on best systems in the world would be conducted twice in all the 604 districts in the country. The final stage in 2015 involves a rally.
Sanjay Mathur, Commissioner of Police, said that transforming one’s self for improvement was the most difficult task and was also very important. People must be tolerant to other’s viewsKalyani Mathivanan, Vice-Chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University, said instead of following the herd, one must think individually.
Col. Sanjay Pande, Commander of NCC Group Head Quarters, Madurai, and M.S. Meenakshi Sundaram, president of Chinmaya Mission, Madurai, Sundara Moorthy, project coordinator, spoke.
