Reflections

'via Blog this' http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2796285.ece?homepage=true State performs well in polio eradication - The Times of India : The article that enlightened me https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader/me/channels/trending/content/p3kU5 India has completed one full year without a single polio case... a tremendous achievement by India! Let us all rejoice in this great news! India was recording between 50000 and 150000 cases until as late as 1995 - and in 17 short years, this has been reduced to ZERO! Tremendous! We are used to calling the government names for non-performance, corruption et al, but this is once that our government has delivered - so let us give them their due. And it was a superb campaign- not a single avenue of contacting people was left untouched. Television, Magazines, Vernacular language newpapers, handouts, brochures, doctor's pamphlets, banners, hoardings, movie theater ads, direct people contact right till the l...