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Dear All,
Greetings! The raging topic amongst the public in India nowadays is the issue of reservations.We, at DreamIndia2020 team, only hope that our government finds a good solution for this without affecting the public and also eradicates illiteracy among the people of India. Coming to Dream India, teams across India have been working real hard to consolidate and it is indeed a heartening fact that a new study initiative, for kids of parents who are construction workers, has been started by our volunteer Prasanna in Belapur, Bombay. We wish her all the luck in her endeavor. Work at the study room at the pada is also on at full swing and is expected to be completed by the end of this month. Please click here to read the Minutes of meeting of Mumbai team held last week. A detailed update on Chennai, Pune, Borivili, Hyderabad and Bangalore teams would be presented next week. Also by then we would have a clear picture of the possible date on which our new website would be up. This week we have a feature on Tara Bhai the old lady living near Seepz. Please click here to read more about Tarabai Jai Hind!!! |
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Practice as a lawyer was and remained for me a subordinate occupation. It was necessary that I should concentrate on public work to justify my stay in Natal. The dispatch of the petition regarding the disfranchising bill was not sufficient in itself. Sustained agitation was essential for making an impression on the Secretary of State for the Colonies. For this purpose it was thought necessary to bring into being a permanent organization. So I consulted Sheth Abdulla and other friends, and we all decided to have a public organization of a permanent character. To find out a name to be given to the new organization perplexed me sorely. It was not to identify with any particular party. The name �Congress�, I knew, was in bad odour with the Conservatives in England, and yet the Congress was the very life of India. I wanted to popularize it in Natal. It savoured of cowardice to hesitate to adopt the name. Therefore, with full explanation of my reasons, I recommended that the organization should be called the Natal Indian Congress came into being. Dada Abdualla�s spacious room was packed to the full on that day. The Congress received the enthusiastic approval of all present. Its constitution was simple, the subscription was heavy. Only he who paid five shillings monthly could be a member. The well-to-do classes were persuaded to subscribe as much as they could. Abdulla Sheth headed the list with 2 shillings per month. Two other friends also put down the same. I thought I should not stint my subscription, and put down a pound per month. This was for me no small amount. But I thought that it would not be beyond my means, if at all I was to pay my way. And God helped me. We thus got a considerable number of members who subscribed 1 shilling per month. The number of those who put down 10s. was even larger. Besides this, there were donations which were gratefully accepted. Experience showed that no one paid his subscription for the mere asking. It was impossible to call frequently on members outside Durban. The enthusiasm of one moment seemed to wear away the next. Even the members in Durban had to be considerably dunned before they would pay in their subscriptions. To be continued... |
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