Marching ahead
India has successfully launched an orbiter
to Mars. But even during such good times, one can see grumblers raising their
head. Someone opined that India should have put a national flag on the
spacecraft!
These are not achievements that should be
credited as individual or country-specific. These are for the welfare and
progress of mankind.
There are other achievements happening too.
A group of five Emirati students went on a scholarship programme organised by
the French Embassy, Image Nation and Total to study film making at the
prestigious La Femis Institute in Paris.
During their five-week stay, they literally
learned the state-of-the-art technology and also what life is in a metropolitan
European city suburb.
The funniest thing for them was the interaction
one of them had with a group of local people. He was enthusiastic and made
friendship with some people in his neighbourhood. As he left them and moved to his apartment,
he realised something missing. It was his mobile phone. He knew by then what happened
with the new friends and their methods.
He used another phone and called on his
number. Promptly, someone speaking Arabic answered. He said, “I know it is you
calling for the phone. It is with me now and I took it from you.”
Our gleeful friend thanked him
wholeheartedly.
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