Nasci's response: You are taking "weep' literally, aren't you. I am not saying, India is not better off! India would have been twenty times better off, if not for the idiosyncracies prevailing in the dominant Indian culture.Mario Goveia wrote;
Hey, Nascimento, Calm down, man. I have no intentions of weeping. Weeping never solves anything. Besides, India and Indians are far better off today than when I left 33 years ago for the New World.
Mario G. writes:
You seem to be looking at the Indian glass as half empty. India has many faults as all of us know all too well. Yet it also has many good points, such as a level of acceptance, personal warmth and hospitality that is unmatched anywhere. India is the only "poor" country that has had such a high level of committment to secular democracy that it came back from the brink of a dictatorship under Indira Gandhi, when SHE, who had initially declared a bogus "state of emergency", called for elections and lost!
Nasci's response:
Certainly the 'glass is not full! U r only looking at the one third of clean glass; delberately closing your eyes to the two thirds of dirty filth! How incongruos! The necessary Discipline is non existing; the Bureaucracy and the Administration at all levels are incompetent, and more importantly our 'REPs' in the various legislatures have let us down and continue to do so. That is what I am talking about. When the 'emergency' was imposed, I was in Calcutta, and I cried that democracy that Indians nurtured and thrived for 25 years then, had taken a back step thru the night! I also cried tears of Joy when in London I read that not only Indira's party lost the election but that she lost her own seat! However in hind sight, I observe that the 'emergency' did a lot of good for India. Her mistake was that she prolonged it for too long, only to boomerang. Suppression of the press did not give her any proper feedback on her popularity or otherwise.
You are only looking at half the glass! Ha Ha! Science and Technology alone do not make a nation. it is a lot of other things too, and U know it. Why this cover of hospitality'???
It could be that the persons affording you the hospitality are themselves partly or wholly the beneficiaries of this wanton 'Corruption and Hollowness' in public life.
Mario G writes:
Nasci's response:but there are still far more good people than bad ---- Besides, Indian brains, educated in India, are underwriting technical development around the world. In case you have missed it India is now the 4th largest economy in the world after the US, Japan and China. They probably would have been No. 1 if Nehru had made a right turn instead of a left turn in 1947. Where does Australia rank?
What is India's per capita income? What percentage of the population are below the poverty line. What percentage can truly afford and be hospitable? what are the laws and understandings on issues of social equality and other related things like equal opportunity, caste and racist discrimination, etc. Nobody ever doubts that India has the intellectuals and the material resources as well; but how are these brains utulised? In India the country is rich but the people are poor. Why? U r comparing with Australia?? Australia is a rich country and the people too are rich to match. Of course there are differences but u do not seem to know that Australia is Paradise!!! Mario, I know that India is the 4th largest economy but do u know that India is also home to the second poorest people in the world??
Do U know that smaller countries like Malaysia and Thailand and Taiwan (and S'pore of course), now have a better overall standard then Goa even??? Leave alone the the rest of India which is mired in poverty.
Mario G writes;
So, let's cut 'em some slack, give 'em some time. After all, you don't live there, so what do you care?
Nasci responds.
Even though I may not be living there now, I do care and always will; it is my birthplace and my birthright. You should also be giving advice and be a benevolent critic. Why Not?
--- Nasci Caldeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope u guys, whether from foreign or Deshi foreign or down right Casti wallah, will weep; for this what is going on in your motherland! Money alone moves mountains! Principles be damned! Law does not prevail. Laws are made deliberately with loopholes to cater for 'cheating' and the same goes with Rules and Code of Conduct. Who is to blame for all this? the people first, the voters. then the politicians of all parties and Independents included, who make shoddy laws; who appoint shoddy contractors and who appoint corrupt persons as chair persons and directors.
