Monday 1 October 2012

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Indians Abroad vs Indians in India

I would like to sum up our performance in the 20th century in one sentence. Indians have succeeded in countries ruled by whites, but failed in their own.

This outcome would have astonished leaders of our independence movement. They declared Indians were kept down by white rule and could flourish only under self-rule. This seemed self-evident The harsh reality today is that Indians are succeeding brilliantly in countries ruled by whites, but failing in India. They are flourishing in the USA and Britain.

But those that stay in India are pulled down by an outrageous system that fails to reward merit or talent, fails to allow people and businesses to grow, and keeps real power with netas, babus, and assorted manipulators. Once Indians go to white-ruled countries, they soar and conquer summits once occupied only by whites.

Rono Dutta has become head of United Airlines, the biggest airline in the world. Had he stayed in India, he would have no chance in Indian Airlines. Even if the top job there was given to him by some godfather, a myriad netas, babus and trade unionists would have ensured that he could never run it like United Airlines.

Vikram Pundit has become head of Citigroup, which operates Citibank one of the largest banks in the world.

Rana Talwar has become head of Standard Chartered Bank, one of the biggest multinational banks in Britain, while still in his 40s. Had he been in India, he would perhaps be a local manager in the State Bank, taking orders from babus to give loans to politically favoured clients.

Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the world, with steel plants in the US, Kazakhstan, Germany, Mexico, Trinidad and Indonesia. India 's socialist policies reserved the domestic steel industry for the public sector. So Lakhsmi Mittal went to Indonesia to run his family's first steel plant there. Once freed from the shackles of India, he conquered the world.

Subhash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king, one of the few to beat Rupert Murdoch. He could never have risen had he been limited to India, which decreed a TV monopoly for Doordarshan. But technology came to his aid: satellite TV made it possible for him to target India from Hong Kong. Once he escaped Indian rules and soil, he soared.

You may not have heard of 48-year old Gururaj Deshpande. His communications company, Sycamore, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $ 30 billion, making him perhaps one of the richest Indians in the world. Had he remained in India, he would probably be a babu in the Department of Telecommunications.

Arun Netravali has become president of Bell Lab! s, one of the biggest research and development centres in the world with 30,000 inventions and several Nobel Prizes to its credit. Had he been in India, he would probably be struggling in the middle cadre of Indian Telephone Industries. Silicon Valley alone contains over 100,000 Indian millionaires.

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi has become since 2006 the CEO Of PepsiCo Inc., a Fortune 500 company.

Sabeer Bhatia invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $ 400 million. Victor Menezes is number two in Citibank. Shailesh Mehta is CEO of Providian, a top US financial services company. Also at or near the top are Rakesh Gangwal of US Air, Jamshd Wadia of Arthur Andersen, and Aman Mehta of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.

In Washington DC, the Indian CEO High Tech Council has no less than 200 members, all high tech-chiefs. While Indians have soared, India has stagnated. At independence India was the most advanced of all colonies, with the best prospects.

Today with a GNP per head of $370, it occupies a lowly 177thposition among 209 countries of the world. But poverty is by no means the only or main problem. Indiaranks near the bottom in the UNDP's Human Development Index, but high up in Transparency International's Corruption Index.

The neta-babu raj brought in by socialist policies is only one reason for India 's failure. The more sordid reason is the rule-based society we inherited from the British Raj is today in tatters. Instead money,muscle and influence matter most.

At independence we were justly proud of our politicians. Today we regard them as scoundrels and criminals. They have created a jungle of laws in the holy name of socialism, and used these to line their pockets and create patronage networks. No influential crook suffers.The Mafia flourish unhindered because they have political links.

The sons of police officers believe they have a licenc! e to rape and kill (ask the Mattoo family).Talent cannot take you far amidst such rank misgovernance. We are reverting to our ancient feudal system where no rules applied to the powerful. The British Raj brought in abstract concepts of justice for all, equality before the law. These were maintained in the early years of independence. But sixty years later, citizens wail that India is a lawless land where no rules are obeye d.

I have heard of an IAS probationer at the Mussorie training academy pointing out that in India before the British came, making money and distributing favours to relatives was not considered a perversion of power, it was the very rationale of power. A feudal official had a duty to enrich his family and caste.

Then the British came and imposed a new ethical code on officials. But, he asked, why should we continue to choose British customs over desi ones now that we are independent?

The lack of transparent rules, properly enforced, is a major reason why talented Indians cannot rise in India. A second reason is the neta-babu raj, which remains intact despite supposed liberalization. But once talented Indians go to rule-based societies in the west, they take off.

In those societies all people play by the same rules, all have freedom to innovate without being strangled by regulations.

This, then, is why Indians succeed in countries ruled by Non-Indians, and fail in their own.

It is the saddest story of the century...............

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Re: [www.keralites.net] Harthaal

 

Though I am a Lal salaam , I have my own convictions on certain subjects which the Communists preach and follow.

II am against anything which inconveniences the common man / general public, like strike, hartal, go-slow, Nokkukooli, attimari, road-side meetings etc.

I fervently advocate too against strike, bandh, etc. of employees working in essential services like, water, electricity, police, public transport including air services, hospitals. If employees working in essential services feel that " right to strike " is their fundamental right, then the same right should also be given to employers, which in this case, is Government. Otherwise, it will be like two people sitting across in a table to find a solution to a problem where one has got a gun and the other un-armed !!


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On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:39 AM, SK <skg063@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Readers,

On Bandh and Harthals freedom for expression is only for the political mafia which is organizing it.We the common man don't have some thing called freedom for not only expression,for any thing. We have freedom only to cast your vote when ever there is election. I'm afraid time will come soon kerala will be like Bihar and UP some one will do our vote or will make us to vote for some one.

Because we always say circumstances of Kerala is different. It is high time to stop celebrating Bandh and Harthal.

With warm regards

Sreekumar

--- On Sun, 30/9/12, Suresh Pany <s_pany2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Suresh Pany <s_pany2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Harthaal
To: "Keralites" <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 30 September, 2012, 10:35 AM

Dear Readers,

In Kerala, Hartal means forceful closure of all day to day activites. What does this means. It serves as a reign of terror for those parties( for the govt..or against the govt) to smash public property,buses,shops, or attack even ambulances. What type of a protest is this? The Keralites are becoming vicious,arrogant and do not respect the law or the police. People who work in the far away govt sectors or private sectors have to either walk or take a days leave for these callous attitude of the hartal organizers. What good are these hartals when they disrupt our daily routine. Can you imagine the plight of hundreds of people stranded in the bus stations or railway stations?Why are these poeple so bent in destroying the peace? Why is that they cant take a different approach in a protest?Why do the majority of the innocent people who is affected quiet? Its time for us to rise against these people who organizes hartals every other day for every silly reasons. Hartals are a curse now. This must be stopped.

Thank you,
Dr Suresh

From: Saraschandra Bose <bosekolleril@yahoo.com>
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Harthaal

Dear Friends,

Like bhand, hartal also is to be banned for assuring a peaceful life of the common public. Hartal is a terrorist activity, because it is force on the unorganised public by creating a terrifiing atmosphere deploying goondas by the parties declaring the hartal. It would be worth remembering that all of us including political parties were in full agreement with the idea of banning bhand. The ban essentially has to be extented on to the present day hartal, which obviously has all the evils and anti social elements of a bhand.

Onrganisations and political parties have every right to protest; but that should not be an illegal intrusion into the privacy or rights of a citizens assured by the constitution. Unless the word 'hartal' is removed from the modes of protest, the general public will continue to suffer from the evils of hartal. Let us resort to other peaseful means of protest to make our social life a safe and peaseful experience in our country.

With love and regards

Bose

--- On Fri, 9/28/12, M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com>
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Harthaal
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