Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan
Lok Satta
Speaker's biography
Jayaprakash Narayan is a physician by training who went into the Indian Administrative Service. He has 16 years of distinguished public service to his credit in various capacities in the State of Andhra Pradesh. He worked on strengthening of the credit cooperatives and making them independent of government control. His other accomplishments include empowerment of parents in schools, speedy justice through rural courts, economic reform and restructuring of AP.
In order to translate his vision into practical reality, he resigned from Service in 1996 and formed Lok Satta which emerged as India's leading civil society initiative for governance reforms. He was the recipient of Yudhvir memorial Award, Rotary Manav Seva Award, Dr. Rustam D. Ranji Rotary Award and Bharat Asmit Jana Jagran Shreshtra
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Positive Sum Game: The Need of the Hour
Students of GITAM Institute of Management
31.1.2011
Dr. Narayan in his talk reiterated the need for recognizing that equality is something that must be cherished. Moral neutrality to inequity by birth or otherwise is a very dangerous thing because it breeds violence. The mistrust that is now endemic in our society and our societies across the world, whether hierarchical mistrust or horizontal mistrust on account of perceived differences, must give way to trust. We must recognize that there is a common fate binding all of us.
We need to be driven by the consciousness that injustice of any kind to anyone anywhere would today or tomorrow have an impact on our lives. If you continue to think that you will not be affected by injustice to some person in some instance, there would be nothing left to be done when that injustice reaches you. Injustice anywhere is a threat to everybody everywhere. How do we intend on leading this life as individuals and as a society? At the end of the day, that defines us as individuals, as societies, as nations, indeed as the human race.
