Chinese have a respect for their culture and that is what was demonstrated in Olympics Opening ceremony ..
Unlike India no one cares about it.. We have Italian Super PM who was wearing track suit... and then half hybrid childrens .. half indian / other half Italian ...
The otherone is a speechless PM .. who never speaks in Hindi .. while this has nothing to do with the nation .. but the Chinese president gave his entire lecture in Chinese lang.. rather than the English Lang ( Popular / more common lang ) .. while some may argue this has nothing to do with the Country .. but that is what the difference between China and India
RE:Chinese have a repect for their culture
by ashok rengasamy on Aug 09, 2008 01:46 PM Permalink
Communication is for convinience. It has to be understood well by the listener. Otherwise the conversation is lost. China has lost many of the businesses and political meetings because they couldnot communicate in English and India has benifitted. Software and BPO's are classic examples. If you talk about independence day speech, republic day speeches in hindi is understandable. Here you are addressing the world and not china alone.
RE:Chinese have a repect for their culture
by ashok leyland on Aug 11, 2008 03:03 PM Permalink
Every country speaks their own language in any occasion then there are translators to do the rest. If you think knowing English is going to get jobs and China has lost these due to not knowing English, THINK AGAIN! Which country has the highest industrial production in the world? Which country has a growth rate of 10% and more? Which country has a trade surplus and practically rules the world economically without having dropped one single destructive bomb or gunshot? Which country refuses to be dictated to on any policy foreign or internal? Which country sits at the table of every international institution? Certainly not English speaking India.
RE:Soina at beijing
by Proud Shaitan on Aug 09, 2008 11:53 AM Permalink
Mr. Vinay, she was there to applaud the Italian contingent. u never know where her loyalty lies.
If india needs to win a medal in olympics then the IOC needs to introduce corruption as one sport. I am sure India will definitely bag all three medals hands down.
RE:India at Olympics
by drax on Aug 09, 2008 11:29 AM Permalink
Dont worry India has seriously started peparations to win its first Gold medal for a long time in 2020 year. Hopefully they will succeed. ;)
Today is second day of the third test match, and our beloved country is aiming at "conquering the world" by beating sri lanka! When 110 Billion people are worried about this "feat", the rest of the world is running after some silly medals. Ridiculous
RE:So much of hype
by Ravi Nair on Aug 09, 2008 11:26 AM Permalink
urmila..darling....there are only 6 billion people in this world....110 billion ?.......the extra are your children ?
RE:So much of hype
by gurumurthy nadig on Aug 09, 2008 11:44 AM Permalink
sorry yar its mistake take it easy, some cofusion in million and billion,it is just matter of one letter
RE:So much of hype
by Proud Shaitan on Aug 09, 2008 11:17 AM Permalink
r u mad? does India have 110 billion!!!!! plz save the planet earth from destruction. 110 billion fools will erode the resources and make this entire planet as dull as India.
i think bollywood directors shud make a film on reality... rather than make ficticious movies like chak de india..Losers !!! where is indian mens and womens hockey team..... Hockeyroo's (Australian hockey team) r here in the olmpics for gold... India will win gold medal only under Shahrukh khan... lol
RE:movies
by Sumod on Aug 09, 2008 11:33 AM Permalink
Hi....Why are u barking in Australia man...Did some one throw stones at u in India...We Indians are like this only....Dont buying pirated DVDs in Australia man....Even they will start throwing stones at u....poor miserable fellow
RE:movies
by padmakshi amma on Aug 09, 2008 11:15 AM Permalink
Let people in India live the way they want. Why are you so concerned?. If some one like to see Bollywood movies let them see it. It is a harmless entertaitment for those who enjoy it.
RE:movies
by suchet bal on Aug 09, 2008 11:35 AM Permalink
In the Commonwealth Games of 2002 Indian women's Hockey team won the Gold meadal by defeating Australia and Great Britain who came 2nd and 3rd respectively. So it could have happend again had the Indian women's Hockey team qualified this time.
RE:movies
by Proud Shaitan on Aug 09, 2008 11:48 AM Permalink
hey Australian Desi, r u by any chance "Ashish" who used to blog on Rediff during cricket world cups?
A hell lot of Indians would have landed in China if the Olympics had some connections with Cricket or bollywood.Indians know that their country will have an extremely dismal performance like most of the previous olmypics in more than two decades. What a shame that a country with an exploding population and more and more thousands to add to it cannot produce competent sportsmen to bag medals at this grand international event. Every second parent and their female child would aspire to become an international model and particiapte in some stupid international beauty pagent.The male child would aspire to either become some boring IT professional,a money -sucking,unethical ugly doctor/a MNC slave or a winner at a corporate backed television dance and music competition where everything has already been set up and there is no element of competency. All these are just for nothing but fast money and the hardwork and talent required in all these does not match to that of becoming an olympic gold medalist.Those who have made some mark in sports are glamourised more as model figure and are also expected to land up in inferior bollywood someday.Example Sania Mirza.The rest interested in sports go to cricket to indulge in politics and become great politicians and sleep in a bed of money which they take for granted.More and more Indian parents are in the queue to send their children to realms of shallowness,vulgarity and low level of aesthetics inculcated under the auspices of bollywood.
RE:India Shinning
by nalini on Aug 09, 2008 11:25 AM Permalink
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ? VERY EASY TO BLAME OTHERS? EACH ONE THINKS AND BLAMES OTHERS LIKE YOU.IT GOES ON AND ON.
RE:India Shinning
by sudipta kirans sarkar on Aug 09, 2008 11:00 AM Permalink
Well said and most Indian sportsmen who have gone to Beijing will do so much of shopping that it would require two saperate planes to fly the same flight back to India. Many will think that we have won all the medals in Beijing and shall be amazed. Feel extreme pain in saying this but this is the truth.
RE:India Shinning
by URMILA NATARAJAN on Aug 09, 2008 11:10 AM Permalink
Today is Saturday, so you have enough time to lay back in your arm chair and pass some comments. What is new in what you said? Please suggest some solutions and work towards that. At least do your part to improve the conditin of sprts here. Otherwise just keep quiet and enjoy cricket.
RE:India Shinning
by thebedazzled on Aug 09, 2008 12:00 PM Permalink
in urmila's country, there are 110 billion people (refer comment above) must be her own kids. urmila btw now who is relaxing n passing comments? gargi, sathish, sudipta, wat abt a small olympic association which is run privately like ICL of cricket? govt has not done n will not do ever. if private olympic associations come up n market these games well (hockey, archery, tack n field, swimming) money will flow in. then we can have national annnual event. enuff of abusing govt now.they r deaf
RE:India Shinning
by wow aaha on Aug 09, 2008 11:38 AM Permalink
All those are worried, please sapre 20% of ur saving to spend on budding sport man. ( if u find none, keep it saving till u get one ). make sure ur kid become athelete (no cricket ) better if u can make themplay hockey :-) . Please do in courage every one to sens there kids into sports. All those "Cyber-coolies" at least develop one world class IT product out of India.
