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INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION:
Alternative Publishing - Is it viable to traditional publishing?
WHERE: Art Lounge - Sunaparanta, Near Lar de Estudantes, Altinho, Panaji
WHEN: September 30, 2009 - 5:30pm
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=146588805806&mid=12a68daG1df3c3d3G2ac936fG7
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:05:39 -0400
From: Venantius J Pinto <[email protected]>
The British left six decades too early
http://www.livemint.com/articles/2009/08/13204936/The-British-left-six-decades-t.html
Mario adds:
Indians should have been able to take over from where the British left off.
Unfortunately, 50 years were wasted in pursuing the false promises of Fabian
socialism. The national xenophobia of foreign investment and foreign
involvement in India's economy certainly was a missed opportunity and is still
being resisted to this day. The first British colony to kick the British out,
the USA, made itself a superpower by using other people's brains and other
people money - including that of thousands of Indians without whom it's health
care and educational systems would collapse and its IT sector would be a pale
shadow of its current status.
Having said that, there is much truth to this article as far as the ability of
Indians to manage India and its infrastructure, which bursts the bubble of
Indian pretensions of being a budding super-power. They have so much more to
learn, so much more to do, and the saddest part is they haven't even realized
this about themselves which means they haven't even begun. There is no excuse
for these major blind spots among probably the greatest concentration of
natural IQ in the world. This is also an example that collective IQ doesn't
always equate to collective common sense which is what is missing.
The vaunted Indian IQ has reached its fullest potential in mostly other
countries. In India it is focused in being product and service providers -
rarely has an original idea or invention been developed in post-independance
India, in spite of the incentive from all the inconveniences of daily life
there - and rarely in seeking long term solutions by thinking outside the box.
