Mario
I know what I said. However, there are many who do not quite share your
optimism. This is to be found even on Goanet apart from just me. Clearly you
feel that you are the resident Oracle and I won't deny you your predictive
capacity but I have been surprised from material I have come across that,
the initial gushing enthusiasm seems to be waning a bit. Indeed, I was most
surprised in one instance, about ten days ago, that India was not placed in
the same league as China by a commentator who had placed them both on an
equal footing only some two months earlier.
I hope you are right in this instance and that I am wrong. I do want India
to make it big in my lifetime--in what's left of it. I'm sure you also wish
India well in your life-time too.
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] India gobbling the world
--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mario
Ah! So there are impediments in India's way to
imminent super economic status. This is what I kept
saying and you were so dismissive. Have you
woken up?
Mario replies:
No, but you seem to be in dreamland. Why do you
embarrass yourself like this? Don't you know that
Goanet has archives because of which you can obfuscate
all you like, but your past assertions can also be
exposed?
The impediments I spoke of are to India's
"super-power" status, not "super economic" status. I
referred to the impediments as mainly social, like a
lack of civic sense and a lack of respect for others.
I also said that the infrastructure was "lagging". I
have previously argued that aggressivly addressing the
infrastructure would create an additional economic
boom to that already taking place in India..
About India's economic achievements I said "India's
rapid economic growth can be plainly seen by
anyone open to the facts."
On the other hand, what you "kept saying" was that
India's economic progress was "a myth", the
expectations in India of super-economic-status were
"premature", that the "educated" people that only you
seem to find when you visit India were "sceptical"
about Chidambaram's vision of India's economic
achievements, and that only the "uneducated" people in
India believe in Chidambaram's vision of super
economic status.
Here it is in your own words in
http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2006-May/042091.html,
"Re the often said view of India making huge economic
progress to super-power
status, I can't help feeling, following a recent
visit, that this is a myth at present."
In
http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2006-May/042157.html
you said, "...there is much, including statistical
evidence of grinding poverty among millions, severe
undernourishment of 57 million children, lack of
quality control etc which makes the hoped for economic
super-power status a bit premature..."
In
http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2006-May/042224.html
you said, "I very much hope that Finance Minister P
Chidambaram is right about India's
economic progress. Many educated people I recently met
in India were rather sceptical about his convictions.
However, the lesser/least educated seemed to take him
at his word."
In
http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2006-May/042298.html
you said, "Clearly, you are not able to tell that
there is a big difference between my
stated scepticism about the imminence, repeat,
imminence, of Indian economic advancement to
super-economic status and your choice of terminology
about my "relentless cynicism about the outcomes" of
Indian economic advancement ...etc."
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