1. i dont think you can compare india and america. i think both have their set of problems to deal with. comparison of any kind, especially of advanced civilizations does not make sense to me
2. experiences are wasted, if you do not learn from them 3. there is always .. i repeat .. always a clear answer .. you just need to find it for urself, "unhinged" or "hinged" 4. our 2000 years of wisdom, came from wealth? i am not sure it did. 5. the india of today, is not the india of yesterday, and it will not be the indian of tomorrow. YET, history predicts, that nothing really changes india has never ever stood as 1 state for a long time. if you can make it stand together, everything else will fall in place. btw, i did not misunderstand ur analogy .. i saw it differently On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Kunal Kapoor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > cheeni, > > with all sincere regards to ur words, and sentiments .. of course, i can > see > > china town in "amrika", yet i get food which does not taste that good. > > of course in india, too, that taste has gone missing. but yet, if you try > > real hard, drive 100 kms. out of any town in india, and then take some > nasty > > detour, for another 5 kms. is where the real india starts, and never > ends. > > As is the problem with analogies, I think you've understood my analogy > backwards. My opinion is that India has done better than the US, in > that it has innovated on original inputs, thanks to the two thousand > year head start on globalization. > > > yes you are right, poverty has done the trick for our chemistry here, but > > that in turn has given life to several other side "rich projects". > > Indeed, no experience is wasted, and there's something to learn from > every experience. > > > what is the catalyst to undo this chemical reaction, then. > > I don't think there's a clear answer, but accumulation of wisdom, > mostly but not always seems to come with wealth, so most realistically > I'd say development and wealth accumulation. It won't happen in my > lifetime but it seems poised to happen. > > The India of today isn't the India of yesterday (if ever there was > one); the thing with history is it's the worst place to look for > lessons, but there isn't a better alternative. > > Cheeni >
