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Originally Posted by esteem_lover The macro data & the ever improving image of india abroad do not reflect the true state of the country. |
Is this just a personal feeling or is there a formal study report to pooh-pooh the macroeconomic data?
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Originally Posted by esteem_lover Yes, we drive flashy cars now & buy apartments for 50L to 5 Cr, but we still do not have clean drinking water or proper roads or proper law enforcement. These things have not changed for the last 60 years. |
There are better places and there are worse places. From personal experience, in my part of Pune, I have drunk unfiltered municipal water on some instances for the last three years without incident and in my childhood drank Bombay municipal water through the fifties, sixties and seventies. In the eighties and nineties I lived in the USA and Europe where I was cautioned against drinking municipal tap water.
Yet I know there are cities in India that now live on bottled water, although the average village still drinks out of the well and pond.
The Mumbai Pune Expressway that I drive on is as close to world-class as you can get. That said, I believe the world's worst mud roads all-year-around are found in Bolivia, South America.
And law enforcement and crime detection varies from Mumbai to Pune to Bangalore to Chennai to Delhi, depending on political motivation.
It's still better that Johannesburg, South Africa, where I was asked not to roll down my taxi windows for fear of being attacked at a traffic light, where businessmen need their own private police force complete with lightbar-equipped cars.
With the dramatic increase in mass private property: shopping malls and gated colonies, there is a dramatic increase in private police forces. Fear of crime among property-owners has grown faster than government’s willingness to spend more money on police protection. This is best seen in Johannesburg, South Africa but also in New York.
Private policing is splitting the world into two camps: the wealthy, who can afford to insulate themselves from crime by hiring private police, and the poor, who must rely on the more limited services of the public police.
So glad to live in India.
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Originally Posted by esteem_lover Unless there are changes in every facet of life, we cannot go yapping around saying that we are going to rule the world. |
Changes won't happen in every facet of life overnight. Slowly bit by bit we are getting better.
India and China will certainly move to take a top spot in the global scheme of things.
Every global management school is talking about it. Every global government is worrying about that and planning measures.
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Originally Posted by esteem_lover YES, we have progressed like any nation would/should. But, seriously i do not know where we are headed since the base is not strong, maybe there will be a civil war one day to settle all issues. |
Does it inspire confidence for the future, for someone to say they are blindly stumbling any which way? Let those who lead the world of corporates, NGOs, of public opinion, and of education, progress from babysteps to big strides regardless.
India has not seen civil war from time immemorial, so whence this delusion of doom?
Ram