There is an element of truth in the author's statements. As a nation( when compared to China ), we haven't achieved much. Beyond the Tatas, Reliance, and a few IT cos there is no Indian brand that is world famous. Even in the IT sector, Infosys, Wipro etc are big Software players but not an innovation company( like IBM, Google, Apple etc ). We are still a big defence buyer( rather than a producer ). We rely on Russian and US/European tech to support our defence units. Infrastructure wise, I would think Delhi International Airport is the biggest achievement of the country and this was possible only because the Common Wealth Games 2010 was held there. Is there something else that we can be proud about? The Worli Mumbai sea link, maybe.
Just for comparison sake: Quite a lot of Chinese Univ make it to the Best 100 in the World. We have none. Chinese infrastructure is at least 20 years ahead of idea - fastest train, world class airports, metro rails, bridges. ( Readers are encouraged to search for the keywords - tallest, highest, biggest, largest, longest etc to anything related to infrastructure eg "tallest bridge", "longest bridge" etc and you will surely find a mention of China in the list ). Defence - China has even started manufacturing their own commercial planes, stealth aircrafts. Sports - lets not go there. BTW, I would encourage people who like to travel to visit China. It's worth it. However I do know that western media will never portray any positive image of India to it's people. They constantly feed the images of call centres, slums, cows and defecation on road/rails. I think it makes it's people feel privileged. As a hint - remember the fuss that was made before the Common Wealth games in Delhi. Aus media went berserk displaying images of athlete's villages which were not completed - the mud, squalor and the stink. It made lots of news and several athletes pulled out before the games for "health and safety" reasons. However none of the media outlets carried pics of the quarters after the handover. It was only through facebook pages of some teams that you could see that the final delivered product was not that bad after all. JS _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
