{"id":2565,"date":"2008-11-10T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/11\/10\/the-mind%e2%80%99s-afternoon-with-vinod-shekhar-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T06:47:50","slug":"the-mind%e2%80%99s-afternoon-with-vinod-shekhar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/10\/the-mind%e2%80%99s-afternoon-with-vinod-shekhar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mind\u2019s Afternoon with Vinod Shekhar 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/11\/10\/nation\/2503824&amp;sec=nation\">The Star<\/a> covered t<a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/09\/the-minds-afternoon-with-vinod-shekhar\/\">he talk by Vinod Shekar<\/a>. I also found a posting in Tulipspeaks&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulipspeaks.com\/2008\/11\/afternoon-with-datuk-vinod-sekhar.html\">blog<\/a> with some pics as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Malaysian Indians should stop blaming others for their woes and start taking responsibility, said Petra Group chief executive officer Datuk Vinod Sekhar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a forum on the future of Indian youths here on Saturday, he said the first step was to see themselves as Malaysians and not Tamils, Telugu or Malayalees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are Malaysians and we should not let anybody tell us otherwise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The forum was attended by about 600 middle-class youths and professionals including budding business people hungry for financial and other help to expand.<\/p>\n<p>Vinod was speaking as a role model at the forum organised by TheMind (Malaysian Indian Educational Development Association).<\/p>\n<p>Vinod, who is supporting TheMind with RM100,000 a year to network, establish self-help programmes and open up opportunities for Indian youths, urged Indians here to set up groups and seize opportunities as Malaysians and to not rely on Indian-only organisations and political parties for leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should develop multiple leadership potential from within the community,\u201d he said, adding that the community should stop blaming and start asking what was holding it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to coalesce and look out for each other and build on it,\u201d he said to questions from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur political parties let us down, we let ourselves down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to help each other and help others, including the poor among Malays and Chinese,\u201d he said, adding that the idea was to start small at local levels and get as many individuals involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure if there 600 people though. I think more closer to 400. Hope that those who attended get some benefit one way or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star covered the talk by Vinod Shekar. I also found a posting in Tulipspeaks&#8217;s blog with some pics as well. Malaysian Indians should stop blaming others for their woes and start taking responsibility, said Petra Group chief executive officer Datuk Vinod Sekhar. Speaking at a forum on the future of Indian youths here on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-ngo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}