india shining... india doing this, india doing that... all non-sense !
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i really get p.off whenever i see a comparison of india pops up with china. we seem to be 100 yrs behind them. wonder when we'll be able to catch china, in amount of progress they hv done (>>> note : here i'm talking of only infrastructure).
mark my words even after 25 yrs frm now... say 2035, india wud still not be in a position to hold a tournament like 'olympics'. it wud be interesting to see how well we organize these 'commonwealth games'... with these traffic snarls becoming the buzz of the day.
wonder what stops us from having such trains... at least for 500-1000 km destinations. if we dont hv the tech... buy it.
Relax! Don't overestimate China. They have just a few urbanized spots like Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou etc. Rest of their country is not different from India. Even their villages don't get electricity. Even they have large rates of illiteracy.
Chinese government has strict anti-migration policies. You need government approval to move from one city to another. As a result, a lot of Chinese who have been left behind in the stone age, end up being illegal migrants in their own countries as they are living in urbanized centers like the ones I mentioned without Government authorization. Life sucks for an average Chinese peasant.
To be honest, I don't think that the Chinese boom will last for long. They hosted the Olympics last summer. In the process they systematically displaced millions of residents and razed homes and slums that were replaced by giant stadiums and sports complexes. Those monuments now stand vacant with no use.
Development does not happened in an organized manner. It always happens spontaneously. I look at development as a response to consumer demand. If people want organized cities, clean roads, high-rises, subways, maglev trains etc, then there is consumer demand for these products and services. Entrepreneurs step in to service such consumer demand.
This is where corruption comes in. Since the government has a tight grip over public resources and infrastructure, entrepreneurs run neck to neck with each other to keep the babus and the netas happy. These entrepreneurs pass the cost of doing business in such a corrupt business environment, on to the consumers who pay higher prices for goods and services.
National infrastructure and resources must be under the control of local citizens who elect city boards. These city boards should be responsible for taking care of local resources and infrastructure. In such a scenario, there is a reduced scope of corruption as entrepreneurs do not have to deal with babus in New Delhi to provide phone service in Chennai. If such deal happen locally, there is greater transparency.
The problem with India is that people are just so stuck in their daily ruts that they have no time to think about all this. They believe that the Government will leave them alone if they leave the Government alone.
Coming back to China, the house of cards will fall as the Government is in no way capable of solving the "problem of calculation." Government will never be able tp precisely calculate the appropriate the market demand and supply. This will cause market inefficiencies which will lead to widespread shortages and inflation.
I am yet to see the Communist Government in China come up with one product or technology that can be marketed globally. They can't even develop a gadget like an Ipod that is made by a small group of engineers in a building somewhere in Cupertino, California.
The good thing about India is that there is still a great degree of entrepreneurial freedom. A person with an idea has a better chance of capitalizing on it in India than he has it in China.
Conclusion: Grand architecture, high speed trains, nice roads and great armies don't make a country great. It is the degree of freedom that makes a country great. China's greatest drawback could be India's strongest point. Still the Government in India needs to allow a little more wiggle-room to its people.
The other thing India could greatly use is a culture of responsibility. When people spit on the street, they must realize that their mother or father could be the one stepping on it. People must treat common resources as they belonged to them. They must respect public infrastructure with the idea that they may have to use it again the next day.
everybody is chor here most of the chor can be categorized as bizali chor. Everybody is in constant endeavor to what to steal or how to deceive ppl in order to have fokut ka maal. If 