Why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but werefuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.We are the second largest producer of wheat.We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into aself-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the dayafter a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and agranary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.
In India we only read about death, sickness,terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as anation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreignshirts. We want foreign technology.Why this obsession withe verything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes withself-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 yearold girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have tobuild this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
Do you have 10minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance. Got 10 minutes foryour country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours. YOU say thatour government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old.YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say and say. What doYOU do about it?Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Givehim a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts onthe roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links asthey are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a hopping mall irrespective of your status identity. In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out withoutyour head covered in Jeddah.YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10pounds (Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed tosomeone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washingtonand then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who Iam?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.'

YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand . Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don't YOU use examinationjockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston??? We are still talking of the sameYOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries butcannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciativecitizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India?
Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay, Mr. Tinaikar, had a point to make.'Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppingsall over the place,' he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements.hatdo they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dogfeels the pressure in his bowels? In America every dog owner has to clean upafter his pet has done the job. Same in Japan.
Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place norare we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in thebin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going tolearn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food andtoiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to thepublic. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, wemake loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.'
So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of?Very conveniently for us it consists of ourneighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positivecontribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system.When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we takethe next flight out to the Gulf.
When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to berescued and brought home by the Indian government Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money. Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians...'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE ODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.
d above s d mail dat i gt in d name of Dr APJ Abdul kalam........!!!!!