--- On Mon, 4/7/11, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]>
Subject: [silk] Srivatsa Krishna: Babu is not always a four-letter word
To: "Intelligent Conversation" <[email protected]>, "raji hari"
<[email protected]>, "Nayantara office id" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 4 July, 2011, 20:08
There are two things that really bother me about this video (and in
general) and that is a) the fact that very often, such people are only
preaching to the converted...and b) that to be heard (especially on the
net) one needs to be proficient in English. I am sure we have honest
"babus" and others, who are not good at English...how will their voices
be heard, especially by the urban English-is-practically-my-mother-tongue (I
include myself in this) category?
And how do we solve the gigantic problem of the category of "babu"
who truly makes it a four-letter word, as Srivatsa Krishna says?
How many people do we have on this list who are from the IAS?
http://bit.ly/mRP5EE
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Is it true that he and Chandrababu Naidu built the IT industry in Hyderabad?
Sounds very surprising; it's true that they got some of the big international
names - Microsoft, Oracle - in, but the industry?
Was it reasonable for him to say that Premji was wrong in saying that the IT
industry grew in spite of the government, grew because the government more or
less ignored it, not knowing it existed? That's more or less my evaluation of
the situation, India-wide. The only single good thing being the
flood-in-flood-out policy of L. K. Jha in the 80s.
I think he's claiming credit wholly out of proportion with what was the case,
the situation on the ground. That is after making charitable allowance for
their meagre efforts on the policy front, like deferment of taxes and one or
two more.
