This world wants to see hard power, not counsel. India at Davos will remain a mutual admiration society until only Indians fill the halls at India sessions while the world gives a miss.
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with 30% population disenfranchised , continuous killings of children in kashmir . Indian TV may not be screaming about it . But the world knows it . Yes world leaders will come to sell their products. But punching below its weight , come of it . Stop dreaming
Correction:
Maybe its time that people call out to opposition to stop using our country as a punching bag for their personal agendas. Sadly, like a crab, they tend to pull down the positives & highlight only the negatives. For a country to progress & be strong in the world, the infighting needs to remain inside the country, to be sorted out amongst the citizens. It must NOT be discussed by opposition with the world. No need to wash the dirty laundry in public. The opposition is as much responsible for the world to take India lightly as much as the govt is.
Maybe its time that people call out to opposition to stop using our country as a punching bag for their personal agendas. Sadly, like a crab, they tend to pull down the positives & highlight only the negatives. For a country to progress
& be strong in the world, the infighting needs to remain inside the country, to be sorted out amongst the citizens. It must be discussed by opposition with the world. No need to wash the dirty laundry in public. The opposition is as much responsible for the world to take India lightly as much as the govt is.
Modi is completely exposed ,both inside the country,and outside.The P.M. has miserably failed to deliver onthe ground.Mere oratory will not last long.One cannot cheat the people for along time.
What big-business want is decent consumer base capable of buying what they produce, and give adequate return to their investment. As Shekhar rightly said, Davos is always a ‘what’s my gain’ conscious club!
With just 3% of India’s middle-class population,(ref recent The Economist’ article) naturally, it is difficult to attract the big-business club to India, how grand the rhetoric of Indian PM.
The speech was almost a pat on the back for personal achievement of having come this far in the career. As usual, it was long-winded. The articulation of vision, policy, and initiatives was weak. The roadmap looks confused. The specific outcomes are either not visible or deliberately kept non-transparent. And the silence on fundamental issues such as the state of law and order in most parts of the country is deafening. Wellness is NOT exactly hard-power. Even Maldives can offer that. And India cannot even become a coveted destination for those seeking ‘wellness’ with such neasuating law and order, and pollution. Personal charisma has a short life-cycle, and is NOT a panacea for long-term health of the country. Sadly, we haven’t learnt anything from the fickle reign of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the most charismatic PM India has ever had.
The headlines and news going out of India: Dalit students committing suicide, Cancer is caused by sins, Men are murdered for cows, Darwins theory is wrong. You expect Anyone in the world to take India seriously? A movie release has led to law and order anarchy. A movie release. Forget hard power. India is at best a giant joke, and no amount of good speeches – given everyone knows Modi is prone to just talk – can change that narrative. Investors confidence doesn’t hinge on elocution. At best you win more state elections. Hard power needs a leader in control of law and order over his hoardes. Forget Davos, India’s gone to Mars and is not taken seriously. The world wants India to succeed, but the world wants to make money and frankly doesn’t give a damn about Mr Strong Leader
Fareed Zakaria told senior Indian journalists that ten years ago, global CEOs were bullish on India. They now find their China businesses five times larger than their Indian portfolios, and growing faster. Starbucks coffee, high end German cars, the Chinese market is a significant contributor to revenues and profits. India has to get there.
Thailand, with a population of 68 million, is not exactly tiny.
However, scaling its population to India’s, India should be getting about 500 million tourists per year! Can you imagine what that would do for India’s economy and employment?
And your figure of 10.2 million tourists in India includes about 60% NRIs/OCIs. So the real number of international tourists is about 4 million. In comparison, tiny Venice (pop. 60,000) gets about 9.8 million per year, out of which 3.9 million are foreign tourists, about the same number as the whole of India gets.
The reasons for the low number are not too difficult to understand.
As an example, when you land at Delhi airport, you do not even realize that it is the capital of a great country of 1.3 billion people. You have the Welcome signs before immigration only in two languages: English and Hindi. Is Delhi the capital of only North India?
As as a second example: recently after passing though immigration control , I tried two SBI ATM machines. Both did not work. Then I tried to change a 50 Euro note at Thomas Cook. The lady, in her 20s and very modern, not only wanted a copy of my passport, but also of my OCI card! I told her that I have not seen this anywhere in the world: a photo ID is sufficient. I’d just come out of immigration and she wanted to see my Indian visa (OCI)? It’s this kind of stupidity that puts off tourists.
While comparing with China, the advantage we have,
1.The economy is one fifth but the population is close to it, so we have more scope of business,
2. Facts are that we are very poor in manufacturing even after 70 years post independence. PM island trying big,we need to support him on his endeavours.He is running out of time.
3.Our manuscripts like Gita teaches to make efforts of your best,
While comparing with China, the advantage we have,
1.The economy is one fifth but the population is close to it, so we have more scope of business,
2. Facts are that we are very poor in manufacturing even after 70 years post independence. PM is trying big,we need to support him on his endeavours.He is running out of time.
3.Our manuscripts like Gita teaches to make efforts of your best,
with 30% population disenfranchised , continuous killings of children in kashmir . Indian TV may not be screaming about it . But the world knows it . Yes world leaders will come to sell their products. But punching below its weight , come of it . Stop dreaming
Correction:
Maybe its time that people call out to opposition to stop using our country as a punching bag for their personal agendas. Sadly, like a crab, they tend to pull down the positives & highlight only the negatives. For a country to progress & be strong in the world, the infighting needs to remain inside the country, to be sorted out amongst the citizens. It must NOT be discussed by opposition with the world. No need to wash the dirty laundry in public. The opposition is as much responsible for the world to take India lightly as much as the govt is.
Maybe its time that people call out to opposition to stop using our country as a punching bag for their personal agendas. Sadly, like a crab, they tend to pull down the positives & highlight only the negatives. For a country to progress
& be strong in the world, the infighting needs to remain inside the country, to be sorted out amongst the citizens. It must be discussed by opposition with the world. No need to wash the dirty laundry in public. The opposition is as much responsible for the world to take India lightly as much as the govt is.
Modi is completely exposed ,both inside the country,and outside.The P.M. has miserably failed to deliver onthe ground.Mere oratory will not last long.One cannot cheat the people for along time.
The author ‘Shekarudding Ghaznavi’ is obsessed with Modi.
So The Print censors comments. This is incredible.
What big-business want is decent consumer base capable of buying what they produce, and give adequate return to their investment. As Shekhar rightly said, Davos is always a ‘what’s my gain’ conscious club!
With just 3% of India’s middle-class population,(ref recent The Economist’ article) naturally, it is difficult to attract the big-business club to India, how grand the rhetoric of Indian PM.
The speech was almost a pat on the back for personal achievement of having come this far in the career. As usual, it was long-winded. The articulation of vision, policy, and initiatives was weak. The roadmap looks confused. The specific outcomes are either not visible or deliberately kept non-transparent. And the silence on fundamental issues such as the state of law and order in most parts of the country is deafening. Wellness is NOT exactly hard-power. Even Maldives can offer that. And India cannot even become a coveted destination for those seeking ‘wellness’ with such neasuating law and order, and pollution. Personal charisma has a short life-cycle, and is NOT a panacea for long-term health of the country. Sadly, we haven’t learnt anything from the fickle reign of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the most charismatic PM India has ever had.
The headlines and news going out of India: Dalit students committing suicide, Cancer is caused by sins, Men are murdered for cows, Darwins theory is wrong. You expect Anyone in the world to take India seriously? A movie release has led to law and order anarchy. A movie release. Forget hard power. India is at best a giant joke, and no amount of good speeches – given everyone knows Modi is prone to just talk – can change that narrative. Investors confidence doesn’t hinge on elocution. At best you win more state elections. Hard power needs a leader in control of law and order over his hoardes. Forget Davos, India’s gone to Mars and is not taken seriously. The world wants India to succeed, but the world wants to make money and frankly doesn’t give a damn about Mr Strong Leader
Fareed Zakaria told senior Indian journalists that ten years ago, global CEOs were bullish on India. They now find their China businesses five times larger than their Indian portfolios, and growing faster. Starbucks coffee, high end German cars, the Chinese market is a significant contributor to revenues and profits. India has to get there.
Thailand, with a population of 68 million, is not exactly tiny.
However, scaling its population to India’s, India should be getting about 500 million tourists per year! Can you imagine what that would do for India’s economy and employment?
And your figure of 10.2 million tourists in India includes about 60% NRIs/OCIs. So the real number of international tourists is about 4 million. In comparison, tiny Venice (pop. 60,000) gets about 9.8 million per year, out of which 3.9 million are foreign tourists, about the same number as the whole of India gets.
The reasons for the low number are not too difficult to understand.
As an example, when you land at Delhi airport, you do not even realize that it is the capital of a great country of 1.3 billion people. You have the Welcome signs before immigration only in two languages: English and Hindi. Is Delhi the capital of only North India?
As as a second example: recently after passing though immigration control , I tried two SBI ATM machines. Both did not work. Then I tried to change a 50 Euro note at Thomas Cook. The lady, in her 20s and very modern, not only wanted a copy of my passport, but also of my OCI card! I told her that I have not seen this anywhere in the world: a photo ID is sufficient. I’d just come out of immigration and she wanted to see my Indian visa (OCI)? It’s this kind of stupidity that puts off tourists.
While comparing with China, the advantage we have,
1.The economy is one fifth but the population is close to it, so we have more scope of business,
2. Facts are that we are very poor in manufacturing even after 70 years post independence. PM island trying big,we need to support him on his endeavours.He is running out of time.
3.Our manuscripts like Gita teaches to make efforts of your best,
While comparing with China, the advantage we have,
1.The economy is one fifth but the population is close to it, so we have more scope of business,
2. Facts are that we are very poor in manufacturing even after 70 years post independence. PM is trying big,we need to support him on his endeavours.He is running out of time.
3.Our manuscripts like Gita teaches to make efforts of your best,