Honourable Sir
                             With due respect, I submit few lines for your kind consideration. I have 
                   come to know through reliable sources and press media that you are devoted 
                   service for the well being of human right .
                             I have poor family my childern are going to school and collage.
                             Incidentally I may submit that I have a large poor family.
                    Therefore there is no financial support for me. Please financial help me, I will 
                     not only be a great relief to a poor family but will also be a great act of charity
                     on your honour part. Iam waiting your favouable reply.

                            I reqest you pleas help me for purpose of this letter and mot disappoint me.

                                                                                               With best regards.
                                                                  contact me.
                                                                                                                       Yours faithfully,
                                                                                                                        Mrs Farzana yasmin .
                                                                                                                        C/O Khursheed Alam .
                                                                                                                        E-158/A Satelite Town,
                                                                                                                        Rawalpindi (Pakistan)
                                                                                       HarrisAlam 333@hotmail.com.                                                                                                        

Respected Sir/Madam!

I am member of lower-middle class and most of our time passes, to live from hand to mouth. This major change came to my life after the death of papa (Dilshad Khan) on 27th October 1999 and after than things changed in a very bad manner, all the responsibility was brought on the young shoulder of my elder brother who was a student by himself and was taking his undergraduate studies. I am graduate from the university of Peshawar (NWFP) Pakistan in the session of 2006-07. After the completion of my graduation I joined a local NGO to gain experience as it was relevant to my previous course of studies, which is must here in Pakistan for the Master Level Studies in good colleges and universities. l want to continue my studies but unfortunately after the accident of my elder brother he is unable to maintain his duties so due to that very reason, i can’t continue my studies and I am suffering from financial cruces and losing the precious time of studies. I have managed each and every thing from my personal savings as I don’t want to be a burden of my family again, but the institution I had taken admission for Master’s in Business Administration( specialization in Business Finance, Basics Changes In Finance, Computer Buildings Designer, Human Recourses Managements and its Concepts) requires a complete setup for studies such as Tuitions Fee, Accommodation Expanses, Living Expanses, and other concern expanses. These all expanses I had paid from my personal savings and can maintain my daily routine by doing part time job but the main problem for which I am writing to your kind self and the very reason I am suffering to work on my projects back home on a computer which is making my efforts use less. Before this to use a computer of fellow or a friend doesn’t effect one’s privacy but as I am entering into a professional life I can’t share my projects with them because it is prepared after an extreme and continuous hardworking. It also noteworthy that the reason I am suffering and having problems to understand the new changes in our studies to communicate with worlds researches, new websites updates and know about the information which is always available on web because I am financially weak and cannot afford funds to buy a Computer Laptop for studies work which is easy to work on to make personal notes and one carry it any time with himself as my all friends have there own. I am a genuine student and my intentions are purely for higher education that’s why my application must be consider on the basis of humanity and sympathy, so it is therefore formally requested to your kind self to donate me a Computer Laptop so that I can continue my studies and to stable my self for the support my family as I am there only hope and prove my self a responsible human in the world by my acumens and potentials.

I would be grateful to your kind concern.

Yours truly, Farhan Dilshad.

Necessary details are as under:-

Name Farhan Dilshad F/Name Dilshad Khan (Late) D.O.B 13th March 1985 Nationality Pakistani NIC 16101-1281814-5 Passport No AC7718141 Qualification Bachelor of Science Group Engineering Group Session 2006-07 Profession Student Contact Cell 0092-345-9334001 Email Address fanni_khan1985@yahoo.com

Mailing Address House No 40/C, Mohallah Mir Afzal Khan, Mardan (NWFP) Pakistan.

Please you can make my life……………….God Bless You.

Thanks! Sudhir S.N.Lal AAS- Ministries 152A.West Arjun Nagar Agra-282001 U.P. India Cell: 919990665926

Dhaavak: I agree with your posting;

It isnt a moral obligation. just follow the money – make them some money – keep a nickel to the dollar – everyone happy

India (or your SA country of choice) benefits immensely from the: 1. influx of investment 2. demands of accountability/higher standards/transparency

NRI-vestor: “I don’t have to pay twice the published fee to get my building plans approved in Chicago’s Zoning Bureau, why the hell should I do it in Amdavad’s Zoning Bureau?”

corrupt local zoning official: “this is not your USA; you don’t like? I will not give the permits”

NRI-vestor: “that’s cool, I’ve just sent an email to your boss, the local press, and my cousin at Thehelka.com“

You the investor benefit from 1. ROI (who wouldn’t take 7-10% growth over 3-4%?) 2. That warm-n-fuzzy feeling of helping develop your old country by getting jobs, electricity, and gleaming new buildings to her people… all the way to the bank.

Raajk: I disagree with your posting; how can you say:

There is a world of difference between saying/doing something from within and without. You are not accountable or going to live with whatever you are saying/doing about India. Whereas resident indians have a stake in it. It is going to affect them.

Where do you think your identity is shaped? In terms of numbers India >> NRI’s. When you walk around the Western world, work in your office, learn in your university, shop at your grocery store, play tennis at your sports club, and chat with your neighbors, they don’t see you as completely distinct from your Motherland. They see you as an Indian-American/etc. I haven’t lived in India for a couple decades, however I get all the stereotypes, assumptions, and “benefits” (be they good or bad) tacked on. I’m sure its true for the majority of us who in perhaps the most remote way acknowledge our roots.

Furthermore, I believe our children, and children’s children, will be increasingly affected by this perception of India, as well as its ground realities, in the world. If you are a Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, or Zorastrian you have an even greater stake in India’s future. Your brand of religion, its quirks and nuances, are directly influenced by the goings-on back home, both by spiritual leaders and your bretheren. Don’t Catholics have a stake in Rome? How about Jews in Israel?

Most NRI’s in the US do not belong to any charitable organization, do not contribute to any institution except, perhaps, their local temples, but by being highly productive members of the American economy, are “giving back” to the American society everyday. The same applies to NRI’s investing money in India OR Indians in India who produce wealth through some enterprise or the other.

Most of us are involved in CREATING value. Some of us are involved in DISTRIBUTING it correctly. But the latter group is not the only one “giving back.”

But to counter that, on what basis is it assumed that NRI’s do not contribute?Are there some statistics? Is there some kind of research that has been done into this? Chances are I donated for the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, the tsunami etc. but didn’t feel the need to tell anyone about it because I didn’t do it for the opportunity to brag.

So isn’t there an assumption being made as to whether or not I did contribute?

1.)That conversation was NOT about charity. Any humane human being can do that.

2.)It was about whether an NRI’s can participate in India’s socio-political discourses. The answer is, an emphatic NO.

the question of whether NRIÂ’s are even welcome or entitled to improve India

India welcomes its sons and daughters with open heart. The crux of the problem is an NRI’s concept of what constitutes “improvement” is different from an Resident Indians concept of it.

How many times do we come across NRI’s who utterly criticize,condemn,preach,caricature Indian culture and Indian politicians? Refer to the comment at #29.

the “public persona” of many NRIs is that they don’t actually like India. this can be very frustrating, and demeaning for both indians who love working and living in their country, and foreigners like myself who have made india their home by choice.

This is what I have said

The opposition comes when NRI’s sound heavily condescending, calling RIs as morons and idiots and terming whatever they have been doing unconsciously for years as Beastly – nothing short of an outsider,especially westener. This, when NRIs themselves put up with it while being insiders. NRIs new found experience is welcome,if presented in a desirable Indianised way. Copycat-experiences are generally seen with suspicion due to many reasons. Tough to replace. When you are dealing with belief systems, a slow persuation rather than condescending is the right way, me thinks. An RI who shares the collective fate of India is justified in silencing an NRI because the latter has,in actuality, no stake in India’s fate. He/she has already found the escape route. Whatever they do is out of emotion,attachment, and for their own identity sake. All are 100 percent voluntary. Not all can be doing it for the same reason. Thinking of it, what if a westernised NRI works for CIA or KGB and everything had a hidden meaning and purpose? You never know. An NRIs loyalties are questionable. An RI can work for CIA too. But if found, his fate and NRIs fate may not be the same. An RI will be sharing the responsibility for what he/she is doing and preaching. The greatest grudge against NRIs is that they have taken creme de la creme education for the most part by making use of the heavily subsidised institutes – pushing out the others in the competition. And, left India to work for some other country citing silly excuses like unemployment, no proper pay package, work condition, blah blah.(They are silly in a big picture view)

There is a world of difference between saying/doing something from within and without. You are not accountable or going to live with whatever you are saying/doing about India. Whereas resident indians have a stake in it. It is going to affect them.

It is your concern to prove your loyalty. Otherwise, you are as good as an alien. Giving respect or otherwise to the opinion of an alien is a resident indian’s prerogative.

My appeal to ya all: You only have the right to love India in whatever way it is now. To seek change in a way to fit your own whims and fantasies, sorry, no thanks.

Hey, I am an NRI too.

Yes and No.

As Theresa pointed out that middle class Indian have just started to get into habit of philanthropy on a regular basis. However, always a common man in India has given charity for floods, natural disasters for as far I can remember. Maybe, not as well packaged. Both for Indian Ocean tsunami and Kashmir earthquake, the common man stepped in and did great things.

Rich Indian have been doing philanthropy for a long time…….Tatas, Birlas – they have open ecucational institutes (TIFR, BITS, etc.), grass roots organizations fo 100s of years. In fact the Jain Foundation (The Times of India owners) undertook rebuilding of Bhuj after the January 26th, 2001 earthqauke as their mission.

There is room for more, but it is not philanthropy has never existed in India.

My point was not to touch upon who shouldn’t or should take upon themselves to act selflessly now and then but more so on why the focus is on NRI’s than the many Indians within India who do have it within their means to do so and don’t.