-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solutions, Stan ? You want solutions ??? Why, aren't the problems we have sufficiently entertaining ?Yes, I suppose, if you've fled them and moved to Canada.
Dear, dear Stan - much as I would like to pull a solution - or two, or ten - out of my hat, please do keep in mind that some of the best brains in our billion-people nation have been very actively working on creating the mess we are in, for at least the last six decades if not more (and some would say much more, because not a little of our problems date back to the days of the Raj, and some would aver that Manu himself is at the bottom of a few...). There you go again, dear dear Chitta, ducking and weaving, and avoiding any heavy lifting as usual. But you can't specialise in telling others, when they make attempts to suggest solutions, that they're wrong, without sticking your own neck out to offer suggestions on what might be in the right direction, Chitta To undo the ingenious and skillful work of these many, many agile minds and their thousands of man-years of effort in a quick and short email is asking a lot. In fact, I would say it is asking too much. Still, why not try ? Since you insist, and I do like to oblige a friend and respond to your anxiety. I'll even overlook your patronising if you will put your mind to where your mouth flows so glibly. Management theorists (and some very practical and successful managers) teach us that when faced with a gigantic and seemingly insurmountable problem, one needs to break it down into small chunks and handle each such (manageable) chunk. It works. To paraphrase that, a journey of even a thousand miles begins with a single step. A series of small single steps may take us surprisingly far. Good. Now you're moving (like a reluctant bowel). So if there is a solution at all, it is for each of us to do what we can, where we can, as best as we can. If each of us can work on solving some problem - strive to improve something that needs improvement - correct something that's gone wrong - in our family, in our building, in our neighbourhood, in our city, in our state... enough of us working in such a way can begin to make a real difference to India the nation, to India the great collection of a billion beings. Let's start (and many of the addressees of your message have already done so). Thank you, Chitta. As you say, many have already done so. In fact, are doing so. Over and out and goodbye. Cheers - Cheeta At 09:55 PM 11/9/2005 +0530, Stanley Pinto wrote: Yes yes yes yes. Nobody's dumb. Everybody's astute. Aren't we wonderful. And yet, we are a bloody mess as an operating country. Enough of the analyses and the pontification. Any ideas for solutions? That's what I'd asked. Stanley
