shahadat hussain
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Ingrained sense of nationalism (Bharat Mata): India has hundreds of regional languages (wikipedia: 30 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000), a number of races, religions, castes etc, and yet it has managed to successfully bring them under the "Indian" umbrella. North, south, irrespective, the first identity of an Indian is Indian.
And by all accounts that is impressive, especially to someone sitting across the border. For Pakistanis, Pakistan comes much much lower on the list of identities, beginning usually with 'family', coming first, 'then 'religion', 'then a multitude of other things before 'province' and then finally country.
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Marketing of India (Image building): Perhaps the one thing I feel most strongly about. As an MBA who studied marketing, I can tell you the one thing we were constantly drilled about was "presentation"; putting your best foot forward etc. etc.
As per the World Bank, India is estimated to have 1/3rd of the world's poor. In 2011, 32.70% of the total Indian people fall below the international poverty line of USD 1.25/day, while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day. And poverty, if anyone's seen it, is painful.
Yet when you see those "Incredible India" ads on CNN, full of colour, culture and history, you never compare it to the statistics above.
India Culture Shock - Tips to Help Avoid India Culture Shock
Culture Shock - Traveling to India for the First Time
That's impressive. That a reality like Slumdog Millionaire, that a number of Asia's largest shanty towns are in Mumbai, but not on anyone's mind, because India is synonymous with Mughal buildings, mountains in Ladakh, Beaches and Nightlife in Goa, Lush greens of Kerala... that's marketing done right.
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IT. What the Indian government is doing with UID is incredible. It is one of the most important things happening in the world today, and it is being done with Indian talent and expertise, built over decades of an incredible IT boom.
Besides big picture IT, there is so much happening with education, tablets, amazon type companies, you think of it it is happening somewhere in India. In Pakistan, the most exciting IT thing is that companies and political parties can buy vast databases of cell phone numbers and spam them.
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The Army stays in its barracks in India. Forget routine military coups, they don't even go around telling the government how to run India. That is a VERY GOOD THING.
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Having an international backbone. The Indian government, bad as it can be, often tries to do things from an Indian point of view.
The Pakistani government often does whatever an international power wants it to do, long as there is a large cheque attached with the request, whether mindlessly supporting American wars, Saudi wahabism or selling large tracts of agricultural land cheaply to multinationals.
A good example is India banned Saudi's from hunting Houbara bustards in India because a royal raped a girl, while in Pakistan when the same thing happened the Pakistani government just looked the other way.
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Having an international backbone. The Indian government, bad as it can be, often tries to do things from an Indian point of view.
The Pakistani government often does whatever an international power wants it to do, long as there is a large cheque attached with the request, whether mindlessly supporting American wars, Saudi wahabism or selling large tracts of agricultural land cheaply to multinationals.
A good example is India banned Saudi's from hunting Houbara bustards in India because a royal raped a girl, while in Pakistan when the same thing happened the Pakistani government just looked the other way.
THere are many other things I love about Indians which are somewhat missing among people back in Middle-east and pakistan
Ingrained sense of nationalism (Bharat Mata): India has hundreds of regional languages (wikipedia: 30 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000), a number of races, religions, castes etc, and yet it has managed to successfully bring them under the "Indian" umbrella. North, south, irrespective, the first identity of an Indian is Indian.
And by all accounts that is impressive, especially to someone sitting across the border. For Pakistanis, Pakistan comes much much lower on the list of identities, beginning usually with 'family', coming first, 'then 'religion', 'then a multitude of other things before 'province' and then finally country.
2.
Marketing of India (Image building): Perhaps the one thing I feel most strongly about. As an MBA who studied marketing, I can tell you the one thing we were constantly drilled about was "presentation"; putting your best foot forward etc. etc.
As per the World Bank, India is estimated to have 1/3rd of the world's poor. In 2011, 32.70% of the total Indian people fall below the international poverty line of USD 1.25/day, while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day. And poverty, if anyone's seen it, is painful.
Yet when you see those "Incredible India" ads on CNN, full of colour, culture and history, you never compare it to the statistics above.
India Culture Shock - Tips to Help Avoid India Culture Shock
Culture Shock - Traveling to India for the First Time
That's impressive. That a reality like Slumdog Millionaire, that a number of Asia's largest shanty towns are in Mumbai, but not on anyone's mind, because India is synonymous with Mughal buildings, mountains in Ladakh, Beaches and Nightlife in Goa, Lush greens of Kerala... that's marketing done right.
3.
IT. What the Indian government is doing with UID is incredible. It is one of the most important things happening in the world today, and it is being done with Indian talent and expertise, built over decades of an incredible IT boom.
Besides big picture IT, there is so much happening with education, tablets, amazon type companies, you think of it it is happening somewhere in India. In Pakistan, the most exciting IT thing is that companies and political parties can buy vast databases of cell phone numbers and spam them.
4.
The Army stays in its barracks in India. Forget routine military coups, they don't even go around telling the government how to run India. That is a VERY GOOD THING.
5.
Having an international backbone. The Indian government, bad as it can be, often tries to do things from an Indian point of view.
The Pakistani government often does whatever an international power wants it to do, long as there is a large cheque attached with the request, whether mindlessly supporting American wars, Saudi wahabism or selling large tracts of agricultural land cheaply to multinationals.
A good example is India banned Saudi's from hunting Houbara bustards in India because a royal raped a girl, while in Pakistan when the same thing happened the Pakistani government just looked the other way.
6.
Having an international backbone. The Indian government, bad as it can be, often tries to do things from an Indian point of view.
The Pakistani government often does whatever an international power wants it to do, long as there is a large cheque attached with the request, whether mindlessly supporting American wars, Saudi wahabism or selling large tracts of agricultural land cheaply to multinationals.
A good example is India banned Saudi's from hunting Houbara bustards in India because a royal raped a girl, while in Pakistan when the same thing happened the Pakistani government just looked the other way.
THere are many other things I love about Indians which are somewhat missing among people back in Middle-east and pakistan
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