The Mind Gym

Its not true to say the Mayawati government did nothing for development. It did a fair amount particularly for Dalits, and indeed a lot of the vote against her government was because Landowning castes like Thakurs and Yadavs resented the fact that Dalits were no longer scared of them, and they felt that their dominant position in the village was being threatened. You complain about the parks but every four years the Indian state spends 4 lakh crores on the Kumbh Mela and we wasted god knows how much on the Commonwealth Games- yet the complaints and allegations only come up when it comes to Dalit monuments. Why is it okay for the Indian state to spend crores on Temples, and on the Haj subsidy but nothing for Dalits? This mindset reflects the extent to which India’s educated elite is blind to the continued problems of inequality and marginalisation in our society! By ignoring Mayawati’s other achievements and only focusing on Parks, you show your own prejudices. Especially at a time when Dalits are now sufferring violence and intimidation by SP goondas!

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE MUST BE THE ISSUE NOT THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARKS OR STATUES.NO PARK OR STATUE CAN MAKE ANYONE A SUCCESFUL LEADER.OUR FUTURE LEADERS MUST UNDERSTAND THE FACT THAT ONLY THEIR SINCERE EFFORTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE CAN MAKE THEM REAL HERO.

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Brain dead
Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis

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A great chance, Deb, since you recommend it. Thank you!

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article has no focus and is self-contradictory as previous commenter pointed out

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The source of the problem is the brittle nature of the French establishment. They basically despise everyone but are incapable of understanding that they lack humility and a relaxed openness to new ideas, new projects. A foreigner will have a hard time in France, not because of the people but because of the establishment, the administration, the bureaucracy and the laws. They say they are the home of the Rights of man but it is a joke. Look at the prisons and the way the bureaucracy treats people. It is clear that the French system is hitting the buffers, but they, Hollande included, seem incapable of seeing it. Over 50% of people who work, work for the state. They have no choice. It is only a matter if time before the Germans and others turn their backs, and then France will be obliged to reappraise its strong points – believe me there are some, but they are cloaked by this hopelessly regulatory political and legal structure in which the state puts its nose into everything. You can’t even really trust French journalists because they are subsidized by the state too. Culturally it’s a desert, centralized and monopolistic. The young are abandoned and are condemned to never creating their own businesses and moral order. Above all, France has lost the idea of the sacred, and is left with egotism, which will not get it through its hard times. Watch French TV: you will hardly see an Arab or a Black, women are stereotypes in the ads, baby voices and worried about perspiration – and men in ads are always the same: white, in their thirties and only want a faster car. Why should anyone want to buy into that? Humour and empathy is deeply lacking.

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Author, are you stupid? Man wants to pour money and create jobs, lets facilitate the process of increasing investment by leading industrialists while taking care of environment, land and forest concerns. This reckless game of one-upmanship wont lead us anywhere. Remember, India is not the only country eyeing his capital. Just because we are 1 billion doesnt mean we have a birthright to do whatever we want. Such arrogance and misplaced confidence has led us to 5% growth from 10% a year. Request you to please please to be more thoughtful for our country’s sake.

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What Zamindari got to do with this. I don’t see any connection. Do you? You are saying like that as the minister did who wanted Mittal to ring him and plead. For God sake, in stead of apologising and assuring that India will not repeat this kind of behaviour, you are saying – take it or leave it we will remain the same. The fact is arrogance is in not just ministers of the govt, it is in ordinary folks too in India. No wonder, every body thinks nothing of rules. Those Indians who live abroad lose the habit if they ever had of bribing any one for things that should happen normally .In fact the expect the concerned ministry or dept will keep them informed of the progress after they have applied for permission from govt. I do not think this happens in India. When a foreigner whines, it does not bother any one, but when an Indian say the same. It still does not bother any one. Very strange. Is this how yoy or this govt will make India investor friendly. It simply does not matter if any one considers him an Indian or not. Business need profit otherwise it runs in the ground. Look at Air India. Only if govt still wake up to give it in pvt hands.

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We need more Mittals and less Haqs, if that happens the world will be a better place.

Compare the tax revenue, jobs each create the answer is simple.

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The blog should be pertinent to “muslim”, though this article is about an industrialist, who started from India and over time able to make a place for himself in the searing world of international business. Though , ostensibly, there is nothing muslim about this article, but the “muslim” mindset cannot be missed.

The same attitude of grievance mongering, the same attitude of “injured pride” pervades this write-up.

Mr Mia, please do not denigrate your secular education, Mr Mittal has many reasons not to keep India as his priority, and for good reasons. The Ruling Parties right from the independence has made it a habit to hold back “objections” that they have sanctimoniously created in the name of clean and ethical governance, only on receiving suitcases of raw cash or for money transferred into overseas accounts.

Why grudge him his Taj Mittal, he has earned it with clean hands, not like our beloved Italian ex-maid who now ranks as the 4th wealthiest politician in the world, not like our Mulayan or Mayawati or Jayalalitha or late Chandrashekar Raddy and son Jagan Reddy, sitting over hundreds/thousands of crores of unaccounted cash when they were never in any trade/business, other than granting permissions.

Mr Mittal’s investments are his own concern and as he has his financiers and stockholders he is answerable to, and there are many more countries in the world that do not have beggar/bandit politicians that have their hands outstretched sitting over every business proposal. It appears that there is one state in India that does not have that , and that is so because of one CM who has opted not to be a beggar/bandit type of politician and he has reinvented his state machinery, but that person is a “diabolical entity” for this Zia Mian.
That quintessentially is the crux of this article, that this Mr Mian prefers the beggar/bandit politician over clean governance, and as Mr Mittal wants to steer clear of such types, Mr Mian is aiming his “AK-47″ at him.

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First of , Mittal does not belong to India.
Everytime an NRI shines in overseas, India starts a slogan, Indian shine.

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You need to study more and yes please try to open a even single shop or please, please , please try to query any of your business needs with concerned government of INDIA offices or department I think you will write Please forgive me for what I have written in this blog. Gentleman Mital is not an Indian citizen and we Indians proudly relate him to India. Many of Indians left and still leaving India and many of business men are try to do business not in india but out side india. I am among many millions who wish to do something and wish to contribute in my society but with great regret no help or info from government. And in a country in which there is feeling what ever you do nothin will happen then every thing in the hands of GOD.

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j@@**a** article. Socialist filth hanging around in 21st Century. Give me the full form of the abbreviation: Test for Indians— GAFY!!!**@.com

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Zia Haq is a prime example of low quality journalism. This author does not understand economics and history and goes on to comment much like a two year old child.

For example – he is commenting on Britain’s recession hit economy – as if India is doing very well. As a comparison Britain’s per capita GDP is 35000, India is 1500.

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Many international agencies and businesses have called India one of the worst places to do business due to burueaucracy and corruption. Mittal is not the first one to say that.

Why call him anti- India for it? If he is anti- Indian , then what do you think of Kashmiris who keep killing Indian soldiers and even civilians? Or terrorists who regularly explode bombs in Indian cities which UPA blames on Indian Muslim groups?

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If the delay is for the right reasons’ I would agree with author. However most delays are due to red tape, babugiri, bribe or just political power play. Do you think western countries care less or more for their citizens. Most people would agree that value of life is more in west. How come they happen to clear projects faster

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Haha!!! writer has no idea how the world works these days…forget the ideal world of communism where no one owns anything. You need investors to create job, grow economy and create value added industry, otherwise you will export cheap iron ore and someone else will create steel and make most of the money.

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Mr. Zia Haq is absolutely right. No one can be deprived of his land without getting proper compensation as per market rate. Mr. Mittal want cheap land and cheap mines with the help of Government. All MNCs love only those Governments which provide them cheap land and other cheap inputs at the cost of people and resources of their country, for the very purpose they are ready to pay any bribe to anybody. That’s why they are not putting new factories in USA, Europe, Japan and other developed nations. We want development, but do not want to become slave of developed world by exporting them products at the cost of our citizens. We must grow up…

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What is the connection with him amassing the wealth with his good decisions and management techniques and zamindari system? In my opinion the name of this blog should be changed to a “A cynical perspective”.

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Does it make sense for an industrialist to put money in a country where he has to give a cut at all levels to push his projects through? The education in social welfare has to be given to our corrupt leaders. They are the ones who ahve created the new zamindari system

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I have just wasted 5 precious minutes of my life reading this piece of S**T

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What are you smoking? How does this trash get published in a national newspaper, sheesh.

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Have you or anyone in your family ever even run a corner “Kirana” store in your life?

Do you have any understanding at all of how economies work?

They do not work by rhetoric and thumping your chest. They work by taking pragmatic, effective and efficient decisions. None of which applies to India.

I guess having being brought up in an environment of politics of appeasement, in which you were provided things just because of your political affiliations, that you can not comprehend that Mittal owes India nothing. India needs Mittal, not the other way around.

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HT head Shobhana Bhartia is congress MP. HT also received illegal congress party fund money to save itself from bankruptcy which was on TV news as example of direct involvement of Rahul and Sonia in corruption.

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What lousy journalism. This article reads like written by some kid in college or highschool. Just rants and no reasoning…

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Does this blog meet the “MUSLIM” theme?

Zia should stick to only muslim issues.

By the way Zamindari system is still working in Pakistan, a land ruled by pious muslims (favorite of Zia).

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The article may or may not be great but most comments are. Cannot believe ppl are attacking Zia in Islamophobic way.
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pathetic

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Not valid arguments. This attitude towards industrialists is the reason for India being shunned by big ticket investors.

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Typical muslim mindet….Trying to abuse and degrade a proud Hindu son of India!!thses authors should not be given space in hT just because they are muslims but they should be able to write a balanced view as any other hindu writer about Indian issues and people!!

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“Mittal doesn’t do us a favour – to re-phrase Mahatma Gandhi’s advice to traders — by selling stuff to us;”
While most countries today are falling over each other to appear investor friendly, we are still stuck in “you do not do us a favor by putting an industry in our backyard”. Rather, pathetic.

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मुंबई में 1993 में हुए सिलसिलेवार बम धमाकों के मामले
में संजय दत्त को प्रतिबंधित हथियार रखने का दोषी मानते हुए भारत की सर्वोच्च अदालत
ने पांच साल की क़ैद की सज़ा सुनाई है. गुरुवार को प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस करते हुए संजय
दत्त फूट पड़े और कहा कि वो अदालत के इस फैसले कि खिलाफ़ अपील नहीं करेंगे.

इस बार होली में जब सारी दुनिया रंग और उल्लास में डूबी थी तो संजय दत्त के घर
में मातम पसरा था. उन्होंने ये स्वीकार कर लिया है कि अगले साढ़े तीन साल वो जेल
में बिताएंगे. सवाल उठता है कि संजय की जड़ें क्या इस तर्क का समर्थन कर सकती हैं
कि वो हिंदू विरोधी या मुस्लिम विरोधी किसी काम को अंजाम दे सकते हैं?

संबंधित समाचार

संजय दत्त: मुझसे ज़्यादा दया के हक़दार
दूसरे

हम हर विकल्प तलाशेंगेः प्रिया दत्त

संजू को सज़ा, ट्विटर पर दुख की लहर

इससे जुड़ी
ख़बरें

टॉपिक

भारत

जद्दन बाई

इन्हीं सवालों से उलझता इस बार होली पर मैं एक बार फिर यूट्यूब पर जद्दन बाई की
रचना राग दुर्गा में सुन रहा था. सुरों के आरोह-अवरोह से ऐसा महसूस हो रहा था कि
उन्होंने इसे 1930 के दशक में गाया होगा. 78आरपीएम के पुराने रिकॉर्ड से निकलनेवाले
गीत के बोल थे, “रूप, जोबन, गुण धरे रहते हैं इन भागन के आगे.” अवधी की इस रचना का
हिंदी अभिप्राय है कि भाग्य के आगे रूप, यौवन, गुण – ये सब धरे के धरे रह जाते हैं.
हैरानी नहीं होनी चाहिए कि कई लोग जो खुद को अयोध्या की विरासत को हिंदू होने से
जोड़ते हैं वो अवधी की इन पंक्तियों का अर्थ शायद ही समझते हैं. अवधी वो भाषा है
जिसमें तुलसीदास ने हिंदुओं के शोषण के लिए बदनाम किए गए मुग़लकाल में
‘रामचरितमानस’ लिखी थी. मलिक मोहम्मद जायसी और अब्दुल रहीम ख़ानेख़ाना शायद इस
पंक्ति का संदेश बेहतर समझते.

न तो जद्दन बाई और न ही राग दुर्गा की पहचान रंगों के त्योहार होली से है. आमतौर
पर होली के समय जो राग गाए जाते हैं उनमें खमाज, पीलू, ग़ारा और काफ़ी महत्वपूर्ण
हैं जो कि या तो दोपहर के बाद या पहले गाए जानेवाले राग हैं.

लेकिन आज होली के गीतों का मिज़ाज बदल गया है. अब होली मनाने वाले लोग माइकल
जैक्सन की भोंडी नकल वाले संगीत थिरकते हैं.

1993 में मुंबई में हुए धमाकों के सिलसिले में संजय दत्त को सज़ा
सुनाई गई है.

लेकिन होली की कई संगीत रचनाएं भैरवी, तिलक कामोद जैसे रागों में हैं जिनमें
मिथकीय देव कृष्ण और राधा की लीलाओं का उत्सव गान किया गया है.

गंगा-जमुनी विरासत

होली के हफ्ते की शुरुआत में मैं कराची से आई अपनी भांजी को लेकर दिल्ली में
ठुमरी के एक समारोह में गया जिसमें 80 वर्ष से ज्यादा की हो चली मशहूर शात्रीय
गायिका गिरिजा देवी का गायन होना था. वो शायद भारत की गंगा-जमुनी तहज़ीब वाली गायकी
की विरासत की कुछ आखिरी स्तंभों में से एक हैं. उनके समकालीन समकक्षों में रसूलन
बाई थीं जो जद्दन बाई की तरह ही दरबारी नाचने-गाने की परंपरा से जुड़ी थीं. रसूलन
बाई ने अपने विशिष्ट स्वर में राम और कृष्ण की भक्ति के कुछ पद गाए थे. उन्होंने
1970 के दशक में गाना तब छोड़ दिया था जब अहमदाबाद में उनके घर को एक हिंदू भीड़ ने
जला दिया था.

ये रोचक जानकारी है कि जिस अहमदाबाद ने नरेंद्र मोदी के धार्मिक असहिष्णुता के
ब्रांड को आगे बढ़ाया, वहां बेगम अख्तर और कई अन्य मुसलमान संगीतकारों और
कवियों-शायरों को भरपूर प्यार मिला. बेगम अख्तर की मौत अहमदाबाद में ही एक संगीत
कार्यक्रम के दौरान हुई थी. जो कि इस बात का प्रतीक सा बन गया है कि अहमदाबाद से
उन्हें इतना प्रेम था कि प्राण भी वहीं त्यागा.

मोदी के राज में

हाल ही में मोदी के समर्थकों ने 17वीं सदी के शायर वली दक्कनी की क़ब्र का अनादर
किया. ये वही वली दक्कनी हैं जिन्होंने हिंदुओं के मक्का कहलानेवाले वाराणसी के
बारे में कभी लिखा था, “कुचा ए यार ऐन कासी है, जोगिया दिल वहीं का बासी है.”

मोदी समर्थकों ने बड़ौदा में फ़य्याज़ ख़ान की कब्र का भी अनादर किया. वो एक ऐसे
गायक थे जिन्होंने अपनी कई रचनाएं कृष्ण और उनकी लीला को समर्पित कीं. गोपियों के
साथ कृष्ण की रास लीलाओं को अपनी रचना में जगह देनेवाले विख्यात लोगों में नवाब
वाजिद अली शाह का नाम प्रमुख है. अंग्रेज़ों द्वारा कलकत्ता के नज़दीक मटिया बुर्ज
में निर्वासित किए जाने से पहले अवध के इस नवाब ने ठुमरी और कथक नृत्य के लिए पद
लिखे जिनमें कृष्ण की लीलाओं और उनसे जुड़ी होली के उल्लास का महिमामंडन है.

वयोवृद्ध कथक नर्तक बिरजू महाराज ने नवाब की विरासत को संभाल रखा है. पिछले
हफ्ते उनके शिष्यों ने जब प्रह्लाद की कथा को नृत्य नाटिका के माध्यम से मंच पर
जीवंत किया तो कराची से आई मेहमान धन्य हो गई. होली मनाने की परंपरा प्रह्लाद कथा
से भी जुड़ी है. मेरी भांजी ने बताया कि कथक की विरासत को पाकिस्तान में शीमा
किरमानी नाम की नृत्यांगना बहुत परिश्रम से बचाने की कोशिश कर रही हैं.

संजय की जड़ों की तलाश

मदर इंडिया का किरदार निभानेवाली संजय दत्त की मां नरगिस के पिता
हिंदू थे.

सवाल उठता है कि जब मेरे आसपास की दुनिया रंगों से होली मना रही थी और भांग के
तरंग में डूबी थी तो मुझे जद्दन बाई और राग दुर्गा सुनने की ज़रूरत क्यों महसूस
हुई? हक़ीकत ये है कि मैं उस संजय दत्त के ख़ानदान की जड़ें तलाशने में लगा था जो
फिल्मों में ख़राब अदाकारी करते थे लेकिन खुद एक अच्छे दिल वाले इनसान हैं. हाल ही
में उन्हें मुंबई में 1993 में हुए बम धमाकों में कथित भूमिका के मामले में पांच
साल क़ैद की सज़ा सुनाई गई है. उनके पास एक प्रतिबंधित बंदूक और शायद एक पिस्तौल
पाई गई थी जो कि उन्होंने मुंबई अंडरवर्ल्ड के अपने कथित दोस्तों से हासिल किया
था.

संजय दत्त में हिंदू और मुस्लिम दोनों ख़ून हैं अगर खून को आप इस तरह समझ सकें.
उनकी मां 1950 के दशक की मशहूर अदाकारा नरगिस थीं जो कि जद्दन बाई की बेटी थीं.
जद्दन बाई के तीन बच्चे थे जिनके पिता तीन अलग-अलग शख्स थे, जिनमें दो हिंदू थे और
एक मुसलमान. नरगिस के पिता हिंदू थे और वो अकेले व्यक्ति थे जिन्होंने जद्दन बाई से
ब्याह रचाया था. संजय के पिता सुनील दत्त हुसैनी ब्राह्मण थे. किंवदंती है कि
हुसैनी ब्राह्मणों ने यज़ीद की सेना के खिलाफ़ कर्बला की लड़ाई में हिस्सा लिया
था.

‘लाचार मुसलमान’

संजय दत्त से जुड़ी धार्मिक विरासत की परंपरा चाहे जो रही हो, हक़ीक़त है कि
उन्होंने 1993 में मुस्लिमों के खिलाफ़ हुई हिंसा के विरुद्ध आवाज़ उठाई थी. शायद
उनके भीतर अपनी जड़ों को लेकर एक असुरक्षा की भावना पैदा हो गई हो जो आज खुद को
लाचार महसूस करने वाले मुसलमानों में पाई जाती है.

ये भारत में ही हो सकता है कि होली का सबसे लोकप्रिय गीत शकील बयायूंनी ने लिखा,
उसे नौशाद ने संगीतबद्ध किया और गाया शमशाद बेगम ने और इसे फिल्माया गया था नरगिस
पर. गीत था – “होली आई से कन्हाई, रंग छलके, सुना दे ज़रा बांसूरी”. इस ऐतिहासिक
फिल्म में नरगिस ने मदर इंडिया का किरदार निभाया था. नरगिस का धर्म क्या था? इस गीत
में गोपियां नटखट कृष्ण से गुज़ारिश कर रही हैं कि वो होली के मौके पर अपनी जादूई
बांसुरी बजाना बंद न करें. संजय दत्त की त्रासदी और जद्दन बाई की धर्मों की दीवार
को तोड़ती विरासत इसी गीत के मध्यम होते सुर से बंधे से लगते हैं.

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While this Blog is partly correct its remedial solution is non existant.Until INDIA FULLY embraces MARKET ECONOMY&STOP the HALF COOKED MEASURES the TROUBLE will not only prevail but exacerbate.We procrastinate first,pontificate next&finally offer HALF BAKED&HALF HEARTED SOLUTIONS leading to worsening CONDITION.UNTIL we become BOLD&CONFIDENT there is NO WAY OUT.

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This is what happens when people are fed with unreasonable hope of doubling the return on their investment every year. Unrealistic euphoria,it it is called.

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Hope the author realizes that the solution lies in empowering the downtrodden, instead of doling out money as has been the case. And please name the UPA when they deserve, the way you do with the BJP

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Folks INDIA IS GOING DOWN THE PAN.LIVING IN INDIA IS SAME AS LIVING IN A MORAL SEWER.Else how can you explain the scum NDTV brazenly inviting MANU ******** SINGHVI , day in day out in prime time tv.Indians who like to lecture the “west” on its moral decrepitude need to reflect how a man who tramples on marital fidelity and USES high office and the bartering of judge’s post for some nookie in his back office can go about as if nothing happened. Now it is possible the anchors in NDTV empathise for they may be fellow travellers..Next a russian hooker will be able siphon off stragetic secrets for a few shag.

NO WONDER INDIA IS A BECOMING A LAND OF RAPISTS

Next the ECONOMY. I have discussed this umpteen times in some other guise in these blogs.Let me reiterate.

Inflation is universal ,even I feel it in uk. though being a surgeon , doesn’t preclude me from going to watch Flamenco Festival , tickets costing the equivent of one way fare to resorts in spain.Only a year or two ago there were FOOD RIOTS in cairo. Though EU has GRAIN MOUNTAIN and WINE LAKES and butter mountain , but high fuel prices vis a vis transport cost as well PRINTING MONEY IN BILLIONS now euphemistically known as QUANTITATIVE EASING.has caused this inflation in uk.You dont need rocket

science to explain the plight of greece and spain, though there the ONLY problem is UNEMPLOYMENT running at 25%.

BUT INDIA’S PROBLEM IS FAR MORE FUNDAMENTAL

1.India needs “Revolution in Agriculture”. Needs to come out of STONE AGE.

All land holding coalesced into a CORPORATION with patta holders getting a share of the company as well as job in the corporation.

TOTALLY MECHANISED FARMING with computer controlled irrigation and fertiliser use, and INTENSELY DENSE sowing of seeds by machines as is done in WEST, with a view to bring the productivity in line with the west.
Currently the stasiticsis 3 india 8 west(per acre yield)

COMPULSORY UNIVERSAL ENGLISH MEDIUM EDUCATION with 500 marks for vernacular. Establish a centre for comparative education to learn about the different methods in different country.
MOST IMPORTANT OR THE IMPORTANT
DIGITALISE EDUCATION with virtual teachers
this will ensure UNIFORM HIGH STANDARD , ZERO TEACHER ABSENTISM
all you need is a television studio and bandwith.
instead of teachers there should be LIFE COACHES in classes with mandatory qualification in child and adoloscent psychology

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dimple nothing is possible till stomach is full.muslims are last to be hired and first to be fired.read vrious reports by committees appointed by goi u will find muslims in worst condition as compare to others.this is because of descrimination.

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This article represents a gross misunderstanding of the subject by the author. The issue at hand is that the red tape in India is frustrating and it has to be fixed for the economy to grow.

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not even a single muslim is jehadi in india.abhinav bharat was planting the bombs putting the blame on muslims.thanks god they are caught and having good time in jail.

muslims are the golden gooze of indian economy most of the cities in india are known because of their handicraft works.

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This author even frames a common problem of poverty in communal terms as if not being Muslim means you are living it up.he looks at everything through a communal colored prism. Sign of an arabized mind which is trained to look at everything as us and the them.

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The muslims are not poor. Most of the money they have is BLACK thru criminal activities.

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then thank god you are not the Industries minister

where did you learn economics? in a madrassa?

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India is a land controlled by cocky babus and politicians who are perpetually busy protecting their income sources. Their way of keeping the poor janata happy is by throwing crumbs at janata like Maharajas did. Industrialists and businessmen who create jobs are treated like dirt.
Every businessman wants to make money; in the process jobs get created and national wealth increases – leading to good for all. Rich NRI businessmen industrialists also want to make money and it takes some patriotism and courage to think of India with its red-tape and business unfriendly attitude. Unlike industrialists who are stuck with India, NRIs don’t owe shit to India and can take their investment elsewhere.
I think we deserve our rotten PSUs and DRDO type organizations whose incompetent and inefficient managers and employees have screwed this country all these years. DOT kept telephone prices high for half a century (till privatization) and Air India types cost govt. tens of thousand crores every year. Jaihind.

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Zia, go back and take some classes in economics. Then go to some villages and drink some milk. Then change your surname to Ghandi. Now, you are ready….you are Roul the Chutiya who can talk about economics like you currently do Zia….you have no clue what you are talking about. Go back and just handle news….you have no background or even any common sense on what it means when it comes to India’s stagnation. It is because our current government opened up the economy without thinking, more manufacturing jobs have left India and not as many service jobs came, our import bill is higher than exports, no incentive to exports, and then we sold our country to China, Walmart, and IKEA’s of the world. As long as we borrow to pay for our appetite for oil, gold, and other imports, as long as we waste money on NREGA (1 lac crore every year…SOnia’s dream but then Rajiv said only 10% reaches the masses so 90% reaches Sonia’s pockets)….we will never come out of this rot.

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