Hi The article is written in good spirits i believe. But sitting in a foreign country dreaming India to have heart will not help our country any more. Come sit in the heart of India, i.e villages and then feel for India, that is where India's superpower will come to grow. Lots of NRIs show their care for India only when they visit the country once in two or three years. Stop this Crocodile Tears please. We need real concern by returning to the motherland or "Fatherland" Great Bharati called the nation.
My ideas are not in discord with most of you. I just want to add that India's been a superpower all along. She's been a superpower of love, harmony, peace & tranquility. She's been a superpower of religions, diverse communities, diverse languages, diverse cultures, diverse landscapes and most of all of morals. She will always be a superpower if we keep making the right choices. We need to make sure that we do more for the weaker sections of the society, work for world peace & harmony among all nations, religions & cultures. The so called superpowers like US & Russia have soley worked for their own nations. Let's help India be a superpower which not only cares of its "own people" but cares & works for the whole universe alike! Be Happy & Spread Happniess!!! :)
Person leaving India for self gain (job) shows lot of selfish attitude, have no right to speak about indian poverty, indian roads etc/ anything. better enjoy canada & western world
Hey Ravi Well written... great inputs... It seems so easy to write on from a distance about the streets, people, mannerism etc..(all the stuff that you have seen and picked from canada, US.. or wherever) but tell me what are you doing to make your country a better place. Sitting from a distance and pointing out flaws is very easy... blaming others even easier...the truth is you would not get your hands dirty to clean up your own hose... right!! and by the way... i also stay in dubai and garee that we are on our way... to become a macro economic power and a force to reckon with... but instead of making global statemnts that i want inida to have a larger heart lets get down to the grass root level... and make it happen!!
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by damyanti ghosh on Jan 23, 2007 10:04 AM Permalink
It is possible to do things for India when you are outside it. If your heart is in the right place, you can help from anywhere.
A lot of Indians do not do much for India even when they are there.
I try and fundraise for education of children, and donate each month for the purpose, but I have found that Indians are less willing to donate to a good cause even when they know that the effort is genuine.
When one stays in India, one is inured to the suffering one sees around oneself on a daily basius, and it becomes harder to break out of the shell.
All Indians who are capable of doing so should stay abroad for a while just to gain a better perspective of what is lacking in India.
And yes, you can contribute from abroad too, why not?
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by nikkie on Jan 23, 2007 09:18 PM Permalink
it's because, you see india in a different perspective from abroad. you see things differently. i'm in canada now. all the 3 years i've been here. i've only admired how much of a better place is india. i die to go to india each time and feel sad to come back here. then what am i doing here. well. i'm also earning like any common person. i want the money to start the business i dreamt of and i will surely be starting it in the coming here in my home town.. each time i see india, i only think that how much of a better place it is. a small example i would like to say a small example at this point.. it was last winter, i saw an old man fall down on the road and he started bleeding on the head. he was on the road.. there were lots of people walking by and not even 1 of them even wanted to ask him if he was ok. i waited for 2 mins. it took me that much time to cross the road. i ran to him and asked if he was ok. he wanted help to get up from the road. i helped him and asked if he was ok. he was not able to talk. i tried to call a cab and take him to the clinic. but, he managed to tell me to call 911. poor man wanted to follow the rules. i appreciate it and called 911 and they took over. but, my point is. if he would have died there. still it's not a big deal for anyone. the difference is that i have seen people helping a whole family to reacht the hospital when there was a similar accident in india.
moreover, if u scroll across this whole article, you would see similar replies from hundreds of indians. which ultimately shows how much we care of our country and how united we are. yes, there are thousands of problems in our country. we and our grand parents lived with it for 1000's of years and we are still here. and there'll soon be a time the world will stop complaining about india. it's not far away. i would like to talk more.. but, for now. got to go.. vandemataram
Things definitely look much clearer sitting at the far side,isnt it.no insinuations here,but i still dont know from where the clarity of seeing india comes from abroad.Applying free takeaways in terms of knowledge from other countries is a good thing.But applying them everything is a different thing. Being opinionated is a good thing but being rational is a different.Can we apply all that here!!Maybe I must go there to find out.All I know is that becoming a superpower is a well orchestrated event.My missile is bigger than yours is what a superpower meant till now,even if you tried adding my road is cleaner than yours.
Well I agree with ravi esp the following lines "Are we ready yet to smile freely at random countrymen on the streets? Or if someone's car rams into ours are we ready to get out and ask, 'Are you ok?' instead of fisting the aggressor?
We are far away from becoming a super power either way.I would rather prefer to live in a country where the leadership is concerned about the people & the miserable life style that they live. I would rather be content with good infrastructure, clean administration, leadership ensuring that the benefits of progress goes to the downtrodden, the underprivileged, do justice to people , punish the corrupt specially the powerful who use the power to halt the peoples progress. All said & done, I will be happier with a country which takes care of the basic needs of the people i.e. housing, food, clothes, job, education,& such other basic needs rather then a superpower having superior weopons of mass destruction.
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by hemant gaikwad on Jan 22, 2007 02:55 PM Permalink
Being a superpower would be meaningless if there wouldn be social fraternity amongst people. People being deprived of their basic nessesities, how would that be called as a superpower when a selected few are enjoying all the preveleges and a major chunk of people still being ill-treated, being given inhuman treatment. Nothing would be change except for richer people being more rich and poor people being more poor.
