India - few more thougths
I love chocolates, I just can't let a day or two go without having some chocolate. But I know one fine day, I might wake up to find out that I have sugar. But then everything has side-effects.
Diversity that we have in India is pretty cool, something any country would just envy. Of course there really are some shortcomings with us. Castes is just one of them, Classes are a different topic. Politics is not bad, Politicians are. They capitalise on the power of their group of people, to come to power & do almost next to nothing.
Let's just think for a couple of minutes, in the past 10 years India has taken some major strides in all aspects. I chose ECE bacause my friend said he's gonna take it up. There were hardly any IT companies in chennai except for Infy (in Alexander Square), Wipro (just across Infy), HCL & a few others. I heard of CTS only when Arivu & Anand got in to that company, that was when the boom started. No looking back after that.
If we see in the big picture the growth rate has been pretty good in the past few years. But again the problem is simple we see what's obviously more visible.
Say we wake up a fine day, find that our road has been laid freshly & unfortunately there's a small ditch in front of our gate. What do we say? we don't see the stretch of the road which is pretty good, we just give a mouthful to the poor fellow (wherever he was) & question a lot about his working capabilties.
Improvements in BSNL or Registrars office are just a very few. Even then our ignorance is such that we brand the improvements of BSNL as due to competition due to Reliance & other private operators. we don't see the effort that should have gone in for this change.
we all are pessimists, we always think about the negative things that go around us. we never ever try to look at the positive things that happens around us.
Technological Advancements due to Britishers ? that's a really bold statement. Technology for Green Revolution might be affordable for Farmers who could afford. But for the majority getting a tractor is a big deal, it's their hard work that resulted in Green Revolution & not due to frigging technology.
India had self sufficiency long before the Europeans came along. Europeans came to India as traders, if India was not self sufficient how can it attract Europeans ?
There were Greeks, Turks & Arabs trading with India since the days of Karikal Peruvalathaan. Harshavardhana had trading relations with the chinese king, Cholas had trading relations with Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand, China & quite a few south east Asian countries. As a sign of good will an Indonesian King had built the famous Chudaamani Vihara in Nagapattinam for his traders & other people to worship. These are historical facts.
A little bit of even Tamil History would show how self sufficient we Indians were.
"Chozha Naadu Sorudaithu", "Pandy Naadu Muthudaithu".
India was the wealthiest country, before the Europeans came along.
Technologically India is a respectable power in space & in military, no thanks to any single country. The only country which has helped India is Russia, it has helped but not donated some technology.
USA, the only remaining superpower, used the voting machines that we have been using for the past 3-4 elections during the presidential elections in November. You should have seen the ads in US it said 'This Election Americans will vote using the latest technology in the world' They forgot to mention that it was Indians who invented & use it.
We all forget one major thing, when we criticise India we criticise ourselves. It's necessary for us to change.
Do you expect APJ Abdul Kalam & Manmohan singh to come & give a jist of what the constitution says? If you want to know the basic stuff there are 'n' number of abbr versions of our constitution available. we have to go get it & do with it what we want.
But unfortunately we hardly have any time to code programs, watch movie, whack our head off....... how to go spare time for these things.....
We need not know a single IPC to do right things, we just need balls to say no to the guy asking for bribe.
For us what's Election ? Going & casting vote to some guy & watch the debate on NDTV. Have we done anything at all other than this.
There's no point in just sitting & saying India is not improving & to quote Gaurav "my life here in Japan has really got me to realise the amt of dirt we live in ... in India"
The life in a country which is striving hard to make progress & break all the limitations that time has imposed on it is quite different & quite good.
If you expect some miracle & expect to wake up to a new India, then you are dreaming & yet to wake up. We all are here to do something towards the evolution of a new India.
I dunno if any of you watched the tamil Movie 'IVANN', Parthiban makes quite a few excellent points in that. to just tell one 'You can't expect a hero to come & solve your problems. You have to solve it yourself.'
Time to quit cribbing & post about what we can do to make a difference. Even ONE could make a difference, after all The ONE bent the Matrix to his will :-)
Diversity that we have in India is pretty cool, something any country would just envy. Of course there really are some shortcomings with us. Castes is just one of them, Classes are a different topic. Politics is not bad, Politicians are. They capitalise on the power of their group of people, to come to power & do almost next to nothing.
Let's just think for a couple of minutes, in the past 10 years India has taken some major strides in all aspects. I chose ECE bacause my friend said he's gonna take it up. There were hardly any IT companies in chennai except for Infy (in Alexander Square), Wipro (just across Infy), HCL & a few others. I heard of CTS only when Arivu & Anand got in to that company, that was when the boom started. No looking back after that.
If we see in the big picture the growth rate has been pretty good in the past few years. But again the problem is simple we see what's obviously more visible.
Say we wake up a fine day, find that our road has been laid freshly & unfortunately there's a small ditch in front of our gate. What do we say? we don't see the stretch of the road which is pretty good, we just give a mouthful to the poor fellow (wherever he was) & question a lot about his working capabilties.
Improvements in BSNL or Registrars office are just a very few. Even then our ignorance is such that we brand the improvements of BSNL as due to competition due to Reliance & other private operators. we don't see the effort that should have gone in for this change.
we all are pessimists, we always think about the negative things that go around us. we never ever try to look at the positive things that happens around us.
Technological Advancements due to Britishers ? that's a really bold statement. Technology for Green Revolution might be affordable for Farmers who could afford. But for the majority getting a tractor is a big deal, it's their hard work that resulted in Green Revolution & not due to frigging technology.
India had self sufficiency long before the Europeans came along. Europeans came to India as traders, if India was not self sufficient how can it attract Europeans ?
There were Greeks, Turks & Arabs trading with India since the days of Karikal Peruvalathaan. Harshavardhana had trading relations with the chinese king, Cholas had trading relations with Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand, China & quite a few south east Asian countries. As a sign of good will an Indonesian King had built the famous Chudaamani Vihara in Nagapattinam for his traders & other people to worship. These are historical facts.
A little bit of even Tamil History would show how self sufficient we Indians were.
"Chozha Naadu Sorudaithu", "Pandy Naadu Muthudaithu".
India was the wealthiest country, before the Europeans came along.
Technologically India is a respectable power in space & in military, no thanks to any single country. The only country which has helped India is Russia, it has helped but not donated some technology.
USA, the only remaining superpower, used the voting machines that we have been using for the past 3-4 elections during the presidential elections in November. You should have seen the ads in US it said 'This Election Americans will vote using the latest technology in the world' They forgot to mention that it was Indians who invented & use it.
We all forget one major thing, when we criticise India we criticise ourselves. It's necessary for us to change.
Do you expect APJ Abdul Kalam & Manmohan singh to come & give a jist of what the constitution says? If you want to know the basic stuff there are 'n' number of abbr versions of our constitution available. we have to go get it & do with it what we want.
But unfortunately we hardly have any time to code programs, watch movie, whack our head off....... how to go spare time for these things.....
We need not know a single IPC to do right things, we just need balls to say no to the guy asking for bribe.
For us what's Election ? Going & casting vote to some guy & watch the debate on NDTV. Have we done anything at all other than this.
There's no point in just sitting & saying India is not improving & to quote Gaurav "my life here in Japan has really got me to realise the amt of dirt we live in ... in India"
The life in a country which is striving hard to make progress & break all the limitations that time has imposed on it is quite different & quite good.
If you expect some miracle & expect to wake up to a new India, then you are dreaming & yet to wake up. We all are here to do something towards the evolution of a new India.
I dunno if any of you watched the tamil Movie 'IVANN', Parthiban makes quite a few excellent points in that. to just tell one 'You can't expect a hero to come & solve your problems. You have to solve it yourself.'
Time to quit cribbing & post about what we can do to make a difference. Even ONE could make a difference, after all The ONE bent the Matrix to his will :-)
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