My only purpose to raise my concern on unit level is to make sure that we Indians can think beyond the horizon. I have seen hundreds of threads full of optimism that forces will save our aspirations to be a superpower. Don't you think we are creating unnecessary pressure on 'Bravo'.
The damage has already been done when New Delhi was busy in elections and politics on cast and religion. The single world for the Salvation to this situation is "Assertive". We all have to raise above the evil differences of cast and religion.
Once i read a post in another forum that why Indians are not able to make Single crystal blade for our jet engines as India was pioneering the world in science of metallurgy for many centuries till before Industrial revolution. And my answer was that the man who was having art of melting metals was called as "Lohar " and was treated as low cast by high cast Indians. "Bengalraider" we are now paying the price for that mistreatment. So my assertion on this topic is changed and i am feeling the need to be critical for over optimism. you may argue that the above rant has nothing to do with this thread but to me it does. It will force us to change our way of thinking for every single issue which is challenging us.
Regards.
A lohar did not have the art of making metals. What kind of stupid analogy is this? A lohar was a person who used to make useful things out of metals like swords, pots, pans, and others. Lohars never did any metallurgy. The kings used to fund projects when someone did invent things like these and rewarded the inventors with gold. At times, if the inventor was overly gifted, they were appointed as members of the kings court and later generations of the said inventors' families were considered nobility. This was the prevalent scheme everywhere in the feudal/monarch societies around the world.
If someone is doing a menial job and not inventing something, they are still paid low salaries today. Blue collar workers are paid meagre salaries, while white collar workers are paid more, simply because their work involves more extensive utilization of brain than brawns.
If you think about it, the same thing is happening today. The only difference is the rewarding power today is in the hands of governments for military innovations and in the hands of the free market for civilian innovations.
The reason why India is still struggling is because of a myriad of reasons:
1) Appointing incompetent people through reservations (to make up for past amends ofcourse) who cannot do their daily job inefficiently. Most of them are in governmental positions of power and breed corruption. The country is bleeding its best minds to foreign nations that promise them decent standard of living for their contribution to its economy while at the same time appointing incompetent people to administrative positions!
2) Corruption is so rampant, its like a third degree cancer in India. The tumor has taken over the normal cells. Every government employee expects some form of tribute to be given even if he/she are doing daily jobs. It has not changed even with the pay commission revisions providing decent salaries to public sector employees thus negating the notion that meagre salaries are responsible for such behavior. People will commit crime if they are given the chance to, which means the judicial arm should be powerful enough to dole out justice in a timely and efficient way, to reward the hard working and weed out the corrupt.
3) No access to quality education in rural areas, leading to two worlds with a wide chasm amongst them inside the country itself.
4) No access to health care, leading to massive malnutrition, leading to inferior growth. Ever wondered, why a tiny island ruled a nation so vast? The reason was the same. There was a big difference between the elites and the have-nots leading to the policy of everyone looking out for themselves, ultimately culminating into traitors at first, and then wars amongst the kingdoms themselves.
The big question is: Every political party in India is still playing the same game with China breathing down under our neck.
What little we have achieved, is despite the governance of the state. There is very little innovation in the sciences and engineering because there is no collaboration between the educational institutes in India and the industry. The so-called IITs are not ranked in the top 100 institutions of the world, despite them attracting the best talents amongst a billion people. The same students do a lot better when they are picked up by foreign institutions, but cannot perform well in the country because of bureaucracy which has spread even in the private sector.
The private sector is not at all concerned with innovating, because it is busy filling up the pockets of the rich elite and they don't want to take any chances by investing in innovative projects for fear of losing even a small chunk of stash. Big industrial powerhouses only invest in projects that are successful overseas and then bring it as a low cost production to cater to people in India. Enterpreneurial risk is very low amongst enterprises, while it is cut-throat in western world. The state did take risks in key projects early on, like launching its own space program, which started small, but is now sowing results and competing with the likes of Nasa and even collaborating with it, even though they operate on 1/10th of its budget.
In my opinion, the change has to come from the ground up, if we are to be successful as a democracy. For that,
1) The minimum requirement is education, health care and food for all. We have lifted a quarter of our people out of poverty and just look at how much the nation has transformed! Imagine where the country can go if the rest are lifted out too.
2) The people themselves have to take the initiative to uncover the corrupt people in the administration. Once a few are dragged to jail, the rest will fall in line. But that would mean, elimination of parallel black economy, which again requires the people to come up clean and pay taxes
3) Eliminate reservation. If reservation has to be given, it has to be only to the economically backward people, because that is all that matters in todays world. Moreover, these positions should be in non-crucial administration jobs only. This also means that education has to be provided to the masses so they have equal opportunity atleast until high school. People that show promise can always be provided loans/scholarship depending on their aptitude level.
This has to be a grass roots movement if we have to survive against a nation that is ruled by an iron hand. Only then can we be the next united states keeping the communist neighbor at bay.
its not just affecting china but all the other countries as well. it won't be long before US intervane
