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All Indians can do is talk, talk, and talk. They are the best in the world at empty talk, spouting complete nonsense, and arguing over nothing. But Indians never take action. Nothing is ever going to change because all Indians do is talk, talk, and talk.
http://blogs.economictimes.indiatim...ia-prove-chinas-global-times-criticism-wrong/
How India can prove China’s Global Times criticism wrong
Raghu Krishnan
The call for the boycott of Chinese goods on India’s social media is rabble-rousing, says an op-ed article in China’s state-run Global Times daily newspaper. (The call for the boycott is in response to China using its position as a permanent member of the UN Security council to keep on hold India’s move to have the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar sanctioned as a terrorist following cross-border attacks like the recent ones at first Pathankot and then Uri.)
The op-ed says Indian products just cannot compete with China and that New Dellhi can only “bark” and do nothing about the growing trade-deficit between the two countries (in China’s favour).
The op-ed says “Indian manufacturing cannot compete with Chinese products for various reasons.” The op-ed says India is yet to build roads and highways and has a chronic shortage of power and water-supply. “Worst of all,” says the article, “corruption is highly prevalent from top to bottom in every single government department.”
The article says, “India has enough money but the majority of it is concentrated with politicians, bureaucrats and a few crony capitalists. Indian elites don’t want to spend funds available in the country which, in reality, is the tax-payers’ money but is utilized by the establishment for its own personal consumption.”
The article says Chinese companies should set up manufacturing units in China and not invest in India as it would be “suicidal” to put money in a country where “corruption is high and the work-force is not hard-working.”
There are two ways of reacting to this.
One is by taking out a loud demonstration in front of the nearest Chinese consulate in India.
The other and more difficult but meaningful way is to prove the China Global Times article comprehensively wrong.
To do that, we have to first of all admit that some of what is going on in India would be incomprehensible to not just the country’s critics but friends. Take the ever-growing clamour for reservations in education and jobs, with almost all communities in India now insisting on it. As Infosys’ founder Narayana Murthy put it a few years ago, in other countries the youth would be offended if they were called backward. Whereas, in India, there seems to be a race to be termed backward for all time to come.
How can India talk in terms of being internationally competitive and a global power if almost 50% of employment in government jobs and education in the IITs, IIMs and the NITs and the Central universities is determined by caste and community quotas and not based on merit. Those being left out until now like the Patels, the Jats, the Kapus and the Marathas have also started agitating for quotas. Sometimes, these agitations result in rail-transport of people and goods being paralyzed for days on end. Sadly, India appears to be tying itself up in knots, with more and more political parties seeing a quota-agitation as a way to win an election, irrespective of the damage it causes to India’s economic growth and social harmony.
Then, again, our political parties interpret a win in an assembly or national election as a victory for the country. It is not so. A win in an election should be followed by visionary leadership and hard work to take the individual state and the country forward in terms of economic progress while reducing the scourge of poverty, disease and malnutrition among children. India has perhaps the largest number of malnourished children in the world. Filthy, unhygienic urban slums are not just a breeding ground for disease but also crime and something has to be done on a war-footing..
Prime Minister Modi is doing this to a certain extent through his Swachch Bharat Abhiyan and other missions. However, much more needs to be done on all fronts, given the magnitude of problems like unemployment among youth, with an estimated need to provide over a million jobs every month. A GST bill to provide a nation-wide tax-structure for goods and services need not have taken decades to become an Act when all political parties were agreed that it was in the national interest and that it would generate industrial and economic growth and employment.
Finally, Indians of all castes, creeds, communities and classes need to work together. Take competitive cricket, which China is not interested in as compared to economic corridors on which it is investing in a big way in Pakistan and other countries in Africa and elsewhere. Granted, there are more important things than sports but what is happening in cricket symbolizes what is happening elsewhere. If cricket is important to the Indian national psyche, it is because the performances of Team India enthuse over a billion fans and unify them at a time when they are being divided in so many other spheres.
Over a billion fans are united in their happiness over India being currently ranked number-one in Test cricket and among the top few in the shorter ODI and T20 formats of the game. However, all that good work could be irrevocably undone in the ongoing tussle between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Lodha committee set up by the Supreme Court to reform the running of the game in the country. Reform is necessary, given the IPL spot-fixing and betting scam in the summer of 2013.
However, what is required is patience on all sides so that the process of reform can be carried out smoothly. “The game is bigger than any individual,” goes a cricketing cliche.
Rigidity in the ongoing tussle between the BCCI and the Lodha committee could end up destroying the only sport where India has achieved the number-one status, not just vis-a-vis a temporary Test ranking but also in terms of the revenues generated. Thanks to a fan-base of over a billion, India accounts for over 75% of the global revenues for cricket, much of it earned through telecast rights for international matches involving India and for the off-season domestic T20 tournament, the IPL. It is this revenue which has enabled the BCCI to not just handsomely reward the current generation of international and first-class cricketers but to also pay pensions to former players who, in an earlier era, could have ended up doing manual work after retiring from the game, a la the erstwhile India fast bowler Vasant Ranjane who had to work as a railway porter in his declining years.
If China has systematically achieved significant success in many sports at the Olympics and world tournaments, it is because of not just a focused and concentrated approach but the ability of all Chinese stake-holders to work together in the national interest.
Finally, how we in India react to criticism defines how mature we are as a nation and people. Responding to the Global Times op-ed article by screaming slogans against China or by talking about China’s corruption, manipulation of its currency and hyping of growth-estimates will not help us.
The best reply to the China’s Global Times article is to prove it wrong in every possible way.
http://blogs.economictimes.indiatim...ia-prove-chinas-global-times-criticism-wrong/
How India can prove China’s Global Times criticism wrong
Raghu Krishnan
The call for the boycott of Chinese goods on India’s social media is rabble-rousing, says an op-ed article in China’s state-run Global Times daily newspaper. (The call for the boycott is in response to China using its position as a permanent member of the UN Security council to keep on hold India’s move to have the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar sanctioned as a terrorist following cross-border attacks like the recent ones at first Pathankot and then Uri.)
The op-ed says Indian products just cannot compete with China and that New Dellhi can only “bark” and do nothing about the growing trade-deficit between the two countries (in China’s favour).
The op-ed says “Indian manufacturing cannot compete with Chinese products for various reasons.” The op-ed says India is yet to build roads and highways and has a chronic shortage of power and water-supply. “Worst of all,” says the article, “corruption is highly prevalent from top to bottom in every single government department.”
The article says, “India has enough money but the majority of it is concentrated with politicians, bureaucrats and a few crony capitalists. Indian elites don’t want to spend funds available in the country which, in reality, is the tax-payers’ money but is utilized by the establishment for its own personal consumption.”
The article says Chinese companies should set up manufacturing units in China and not invest in India as it would be “suicidal” to put money in a country where “corruption is high and the work-force is not hard-working.”
There are two ways of reacting to this.
One is by taking out a loud demonstration in front of the nearest Chinese consulate in India.
The other and more difficult but meaningful way is to prove the China Global Times article comprehensively wrong.
To do that, we have to first of all admit that some of what is going on in India would be incomprehensible to not just the country’s critics but friends. Take the ever-growing clamour for reservations in education and jobs, with almost all communities in India now insisting on it. As Infosys’ founder Narayana Murthy put it a few years ago, in other countries the youth would be offended if they were called backward. Whereas, in India, there seems to be a race to be termed backward for all time to come.
How can India talk in terms of being internationally competitive and a global power if almost 50% of employment in government jobs and education in the IITs, IIMs and the NITs and the Central universities is determined by caste and community quotas and not based on merit. Those being left out until now like the Patels, the Jats, the Kapus and the Marathas have also started agitating for quotas. Sometimes, these agitations result in rail-transport of people and goods being paralyzed for days on end. Sadly, India appears to be tying itself up in knots, with more and more political parties seeing a quota-agitation as a way to win an election, irrespective of the damage it causes to India’s economic growth and social harmony.
Then, again, our political parties interpret a win in an assembly or national election as a victory for the country. It is not so. A win in an election should be followed by visionary leadership and hard work to take the individual state and the country forward in terms of economic progress while reducing the scourge of poverty, disease and malnutrition among children. India has perhaps the largest number of malnourished children in the world. Filthy, unhygienic urban slums are not just a breeding ground for disease but also crime and something has to be done on a war-footing..
Prime Minister Modi is doing this to a certain extent through his Swachch Bharat Abhiyan and other missions. However, much more needs to be done on all fronts, given the magnitude of problems like unemployment among youth, with an estimated need to provide over a million jobs every month. A GST bill to provide a nation-wide tax-structure for goods and services need not have taken decades to become an Act when all political parties were agreed that it was in the national interest and that it would generate industrial and economic growth and employment.
Finally, Indians of all castes, creeds, communities and classes need to work together. Take competitive cricket, which China is not interested in as compared to economic corridors on which it is investing in a big way in Pakistan and other countries in Africa and elsewhere. Granted, there are more important things than sports but what is happening in cricket symbolizes what is happening elsewhere. If cricket is important to the Indian national psyche, it is because the performances of Team India enthuse over a billion fans and unify them at a time when they are being divided in so many other spheres.
Over a billion fans are united in their happiness over India being currently ranked number-one in Test cricket and among the top few in the shorter ODI and T20 formats of the game. However, all that good work could be irrevocably undone in the ongoing tussle between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Lodha committee set up by the Supreme Court to reform the running of the game in the country. Reform is necessary, given the IPL spot-fixing and betting scam in the summer of 2013.
However, what is required is patience on all sides so that the process of reform can be carried out smoothly. “The game is bigger than any individual,” goes a cricketing cliche.
Rigidity in the ongoing tussle between the BCCI and the Lodha committee could end up destroying the only sport where India has achieved the number-one status, not just vis-a-vis a temporary Test ranking but also in terms of the revenues generated. Thanks to a fan-base of over a billion, India accounts for over 75% of the global revenues for cricket, much of it earned through telecast rights for international matches involving India and for the off-season domestic T20 tournament, the IPL. It is this revenue which has enabled the BCCI to not just handsomely reward the current generation of international and first-class cricketers but to also pay pensions to former players who, in an earlier era, could have ended up doing manual work after retiring from the game, a la the erstwhile India fast bowler Vasant Ranjane who had to work as a railway porter in his declining years.
If China has systematically achieved significant success in many sports at the Olympics and world tournaments, it is because of not just a focused and concentrated approach but the ability of all Chinese stake-holders to work together in the national interest.
Finally, how we in India react to criticism defines how mature we are as a nation and people. Responding to the Global Times op-ed article by screaming slogans against China or by talking about China’s corruption, manipulation of its currency and hyping of growth-estimates will not help us.
The best reply to the China’s Global Times article is to prove it wrong in every possible way.
