Thanks, Ashok Mitra, for showing your bias right up front by derisively using the caste card. You succeeded in getting my attention, Ashok. Then I discovered how vacuous your thinking is. > As someone who belongs to this "tribe" as you call us NRI's, let me assure you that I have no illusions of being any better than the millions who stayed home, a realization that is re-enforced every year during my annual darshan, and confirmed by the competitive heat that India is putting on the west. It is India's SYSTEMS that need to be fixed, Ashok, not Indians, who have shown that they can thrive under the most competitive and hostile conditions in free enterprise societies. > No, Ashok. You may take an Indian out of India, but it is far harder to take India out of an Indian. Just come and visit any large sized city in a country popular with NRI's and you can see for yourself. We may have given up our Indian citizenship, technically, BECAUSE INDIA DEMANDED THAT WE DO, until just a few weeks ago, but even our foreign-born children know their heritage, and are proud of it and build on it, at least in the US. > Regarding foreign investment, Ashok, I will refer you to Lakshmi Mittal, who has explained why he, as the 5th. richest man in the world, did not invest a paisa in India all these years. It had nothing to do with his ability to invest, Ashok. It had everything to do with the wisdom of such an investment. Neither Lakshmi, nor the rest of us, worked so hard, took so many risks, saved our money, to piss it away on an Indian economy that, until only a few years ago, was hostile to any kind of private investment. Most of us were escaping India's mindless socialism. Now that India has thrown socialism in the dustbin of history, where it belongs, the NRI investment tide will turn and grow. Just you see, Ashok. > What we are achieving together is enhanced by the close and growing working relationship between the NRI's and the I's, everyone benefits, and there is NO bubble to be pricked by modern Don Quixote's like you, Ashok. > Cheers, Mario. > --- "Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ashok Mitra > Is it not time to prick the NRI bubble? > > The new Brahmins in Indian society are the tribe who > pass as NRIs, the non- > resident Indians. They have, as a matter of fact, > ceased to be Indians: they > have travelled to other shores and taken up > citizenship there. Technically > they are therefore non-Indians. >
