In the past few days, there has been more depressing news than good ones--- "Butcher Doctors in Delhi & UP" ; "Jaswant's Spy Tale". But my heart brimmed with joy when I just now read about an Indian winning the prestigious Ramon Magasasay award. IIT alumnus wins Magsaysay award
Ramon Magsaysay Award Citation for Arvind Kejriwal states:
"The brazen corruption of the high and the mighty may grab headlines, but for ordinary people it is the ubiquity of everyday corruption that weighs heaviest. And that demoralizes. Arvind Kejriwal, founder of India’s Parivartan, understands this, which is why his campaign for change begins with the small things........
In electing Arvind Kejriwal to receive the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, the board of trustees recognizes his activating India’s right-to-information movement at the grassroots, empowering New Delhi’s poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding government accountable to the people."
The Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership honors “individuals, forty years of age and below, doing outstanding work on issues of social change in their communities, but whose leadership is not yet broadly recognized outside of these communities.” An Award in this category was given for the first time in 2001 under grant from Ford Foundation.
Kudos to Mr. Kejriwal! You are a source of inspiration to the youth of India.
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Look at Arun Chandrasekaran's post on the same in his blog. His blog is cerebralshangrila.blogspot.com.
Though we are all happy about Mr. Kejriwal getting Magasaysay, the Indian politicians are trying their best to escape from the RTI Act.
Arune
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