Mr Salman Kurshid, Minister for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs, recently pandered to the sentiments of the management crowd while delivering the key note address at the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Trivandrum Management Association, by using the by now clichéd humour about one does not have a heart if one is NOT a communist during one’s twentys and one does not have head if one is still a communist diuring one’s forties!
I wonder how Mr Kurshid will react to the following excerpt from Fidel Castro’s recent speech:“it is really amazing that 234 years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in Philadelphia in the year 1776, which drew inspiration from the ideas of the great French encyclopedists, the government of that country has approved medical care for the overwhelming majority of its citizens, something that Cuba accomplished for its entire population half a century ago despite the cruel and inhuman blockade imposed –and still in force– by the mightiest country that has ever existed. In the past, it was only after almost a century of independence and following a bloody war, that Abraham Lincoln could obtain the legal emancipation of the slaves.”
I wonder how Mr Kurshid will react to the following excerpt from Fidel Castro’s recent speech:“it is really amazing that 234 years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in Philadelphia in the year 1776, which drew inspiration from the ideas of the great French encyclopedists, the government of that country has approved medical care for the overwhelming majority of its citizens, something that Cuba accomplished for its entire population half a century ago despite the cruel and inhuman blockade imposed –and still in force– by the mightiest country that has ever existed. In the past, it was only after almost a century of independence and following a bloody war, that Abraham Lincoln could obtain the legal emancipation of the slaves.”
Ramki Ruminates 