Writings
- Want to be a Hero - Anecdotes with a message, 1999, Amruthavani Publications, Secunderabad.
- The Ethics of Religious Conversions, (with Dr. David Frawley), Pragna Bharathi, Hyderabad.
- Quoted in B. K. Kiran's Education in Human Values for the Twenty-first Century, a NCERT publication
| “ | ...Perhaps the most fundamental and insidious challenge, is “lack of political will”. Archbishop of Hyderabad, the Rev. Samineni Arulappa (1999) perceives a reason behind this frequently lamented phenomenon: “Apparently there seems to be no political will to solve the problems of education. Many political leaders often seems to be not really interested to change the system. They are happy to keep the masses ignorant and illiterate. There are people who say that the Indian politicians and bureaucrats have never sincerely tried to educate the masses. Once education becomes compulsory and universal, people will be conscious of their rights and will not allow themselves to be exploited. They can elect their leaders on the basis of character, intellectual and moral excellence rather than region and religion.” Where will political will come from? Or, perhaps more pressingly, can anything be done about the increasing void of “character, intellectual and moral excellence” among the populace in the meantime? | ” |
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