RE:What matters is the kind of development by Cool Customer on Jun 21, 2008 06:34 PM  Permalink This type of daydream views are absolutely ridiculous! These ideologists have neither any scientific foundation nor any business or economic foundation. I would be very interested to know what indigenous way can benefit poor masses and not demand energy. Whether integrated (I assume a socialism driven control mechanism of regulating demand) development or independent right driven access to energy, the per capita consumption is going to increase. And to satisfy that demand- option is to indulge in fossil fuel driven energy like the Left says and remain 80-100 years back or to catch up and tackle upcoming problems. Sustainability in energy remains the biggest threat for future generations. If we do not act now, we doom them to clutches of either technology slavery or even greater hardhship. Please get over this anti-colonialist rebel syndrome. We are free and we chose what is good for us.    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 21, 2008 10:45 PM  Permalink Mr.Padhmanabhan is absolutely correct. We DO need different forms of development that is certainly NOT what the west proposes. We need is to rethink our necessities, propose programmes to actuate asap, whereby we are not dependent on fossil energy, on oil imports. Wind & solar energy systems would distance us from any external blackmail by rising prices. This energy could be supplied to rural & urban areas. We should harness rain water, preserve ground water table at high levels by planting, NOT cutting trees, that are today’s main energy source to the rural and urban poor. We must incorporate healthy biological argricultural practises that will eliminate expensive polluting chemical plants. All together we need a fresh outlook, a way of harmonising our lives with nature AS WE DID once. Our biodiversity must be protected, & discards of agriculture used to produce energy and fertiliser (compost). We can’t and mustn’t think that cell phones, discos and internet are the only forms of progress, and IT professionals the only future of India. We don’t all need computers, but we all eat food. We don’t need cell phones, but potable (drinking) water. We don’t need high rise buildings, but decent shelter for all our citizens. We need to discriminate between the necessities and the superfluous. If you still believe in the out & out capitalism of the US and west, read a bit about the actual financial crises and lack of resources that the west suffers from be    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 21, 2008 10:48 PM  Permalink contd. discriminate between the necessities and the superfluous. If you still believe in the out & out capitalism of the US and west, read a bit about the actual financial crises and lack of resources that the west suffers from because of their short-sighted economics philosophy. What you propose is slavery. Slavery to hi tech solutions that we Indians DO NOT know how to maintain. Nuclear waste is the most toxic substance produced today by man. No one knows what to do with it. Burying it in the depths of the world is the "out of sight, out of mind" concept put to practise. Nature reserves surprises for man, a tsunami, an earthquake of drastic proportions, a disaster as we have yet to see may be seconds away. No man, whether American, European or Japanese will be able to stop the entire world being polluted and intoxicated beyond repair. Nature knows no frontiers. We cannot stop nature taking her course.    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:RE:RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 21, 2008 10:48 PM  Permalink contd. discriminate between the necessities and the superfluous. If you still believe in the out & out capitalism of the US and west, read a bit about the actual financial crises and lack of resources that the west suffers from because of their short-sighted economics philosophy. What you propose is slavery. Slavery to hi tech solutions that we Indians DO NOT know how to maintain. Nuclear waste is the most toxic substance produced today by man. No one knows what to do with it. Burying it in the depths of the world is the "out of sight, out of mind" concept put to practise. Nature reserves surprises for man, a tsunami, an earthquake of drastic proportions, a disaster as we have yet to see may be seconds away. No man, whether American, European or Japanese will be able to stop the entire world being polluted and intoxicated beyond repair. Nature knows no frontiers. We cannot stop nature taking her course.    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:What matters is the kind of development by Sharad on Jun 21, 2008 11:26 PM  Permalink We should ride bullock carts. It is green and energy efficient. We should crap in the fields. It is natural, we don't need fertilizer. We should write on palm leaves, we need no paper factory. Better still, we should go back to NOT WRITING and only pass on knowledge orally. WE SHOULD PRODUCE BABIES LIKE CRAZY. IT'S OK TO IGNORE IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR. C'mon, gimme a break. The green nuts have said enough. Let's produce more goods and control the population.    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 22, 2008 11:50 AM  Permalink What goods will you produce when you have stripped all resources, and for whom? Where are you going to dispose of all the waste produced, how will you replae all the water that's needed for industry, or don't you know that millions of litres of water is spent on producing one car? You can laugh about bullock carts, why not imporve on them, or horse carriages? Elsewhere in the world, even in the US, there are populations that don't use cars! I don't believe that I have advocated an expansion in the population's growth so where does your sarcasm come from? Seeing have the nonsense that goes into print and this is not just India, why should we support publishing industry's colossal waste of paper? Think of the millions of copies of the glossy magazines produced in the world that are NOT read, that cannot be recycled! Think before you write. You and your ilk are those who support so called progress without looking at your own heritage. Think about the "modern" recycling waste concept. It was normal old fashioned Indian way of doing things. Biological agriculture? that's what the western world is proposing today as if it they discovered it. We have been doing this for millennia! Use of natural fibres and dyes for the clothing industry? The west makes a packet on this "new" fashion concept. We and half the world in the East have been doing this forever! You are one who believes all he reads and sees. Listen to older people who learned through experience. If our youth had half th    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 22, 2008 11:51 AM  Permalink What goods will you produce when you have stripped all resources, and for whom? Where are you going to dispose of all the waste produced, how will you replae all the water that's needed for industry, or don't you know that millions of litres of water is spent on producing one car? You can laugh about bullock carts, why not imporve on them, or horse carriages? Elsewhere in the world, even in the US, there are populations that don't use cars! I don't believe that I have advocated an expansion in the population's growth so where does your sarcasm come from? Seeing have the nonsense that goes into print and this is not just India, why should we support publishing industry's colossal waste of paper? Think of the millions of copies of the glossy magazines produced in the world that are NOT read, that cannot be recycled! Think before you write. You and your ilk are those who support so called progress without looking at your own heritage. Think about the "modern" recycling waste concept. It was normal old fashioned Indian way of doing things. Biological agriculture? that's what the western world is proposing today as if it they discovered it. We have been doing this for millennia! Use of natural fibres and dyes for the clothing industry? The west makes a packet on this "new" fashion concept. We and half the world in the East have been doing this forever! You are one who believes all he reads and sees. Listen to older people who learned through experience. If our youth had half th    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 22, 2008 11:51 AM  Permalink What goods will you produce when you have stripped all resources, and for whom? Where are you going to dispose of all the waste produced, how will you replae all the water that's needed for industry, or don't you know that millions of litres of water is spent on producing one car? You can laugh about bullock carts, why not imporve on them, or horse carriages? Elsewhere in the world, even in the US, there are populations that don't use cars! I don't believe that I have advocated an expansion in the population's growth so where does your sarcasm come from? Seeing have the nonsense that goes into print and this is not just India, why should we support publishing industry's colossal waste of paper? Think of the millions of copies of the glossy magazines produced in the world that are NOT read, that cannot be recycled! Think before you write. You and your ilk are those who support so called progress without looking at your own heritage. Think about the "modern" recycling waste concept. It was normal old fashioned Indian way of doing things. Biological agriculture? that's what the western world is proposing today as if it they discovered it. We have been doing this for millennia! Use of natural fibres and dyes for the clothing industry? The west makes a packet on this "new" fashion concept. We and half the world in the East have been doing this forever! You are one who believes all he reads and sees. Listen to older people who learned through experience. If our youth had half th    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 22, 2008 11:51 AM  Permalink What goods will you produce when you have stripped all resources, and for whom? Where are you going to dispose of all the waste produced, how will you replae all the water that's needed for industry, or don't you know that millions of litres of water is spent on producing one car? You can laugh about bullock carts, why not imporve on them, or horse carriages? Elsewhere in the world, even in the US, there are populations that don't use cars! I don't believe that I have advocated an expansion in the population's growth so where does your sarcasm come from? Seeing have the nonsense that goes into print and this is not just India, why should we support publishing industry's colossal waste of paper? Think of the millions of copies of the glossy magazines produced in the world that are NOT read, that cannot be recycled! Think before you write. You and your ilk are those who support so called progress without looking at your own heritage. Think about the "modern" recycling waste concept. It was normal old fashioned Indian way of doing things. Biological agriculture? that's what the western world is proposing today as if it they discovered it. We have been doing this for millennia! Use of natural fibres and dyes for the clothing industry? The west makes a packet on this "new" fashion concept. We and half the world in the East have been doing this forever! You are one who believes all he reads and sees. Listen to older people who learned through experience. If our youth had half th    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:RE:RE:What matters is the kind of development by ashok leyland on Jun 22, 2008 11:53 AM  Permalink You are one who believes all he reads and sees. Listen to older people who learned through experience. If our youth had half the sense that a lot of European and US youth have, they would see through this unbalanced concept of world economics that has simply lined the pockets of a few and sent the rest into poverty and ruin.    Forward   |   Report abuse

RE:Commi antics by R Balasubramanian on Jun 21, 2008 05:46 PM  Permalink but do remember they have done so much damage which will last long for morethan a century for the country to recover. Bengalis and Malayalees have not learnt even after repeated failures of commies to deliver goods while they were in power. They only knows why they need only commies in power in their states. It is tragedy that, congress allined with them to form government which goes to prove beyond doubt that, they are power hungers. Balasubramanian - Bangalore    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:Commi antics by Arijit on Jun 21, 2008 04:49 PM  Permalink I guess, in addition to biased opinion without any remedy as well as sufficient logics behind these erratic behaviour of Cummies, you have revealed your psychological illness in regard to a Community called BENGALI. Whatever you have preached is called regionalism. the problem of India is to bank upon this regionalism too. Because of this problem many potential elements have not yet been solved! I advise you not to preach such regionalism and criticise the UPA in a more logical way! Please remember Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechuri, Surjit Singh, Brinda Karat, and many cummies who are decision-makers are not from West Bengal. West Bengal is a part of India and people of West Bengal as well as Kerala, Tripura are oppressed by these Comprador Bourgeois. Regimented Stalinism is being preached particularly in West Bengal. The incidences are known to all. Even media is being purchased by cummies. IBN, CNN-IBN, NDTV and there are several national TV channels and news papers which have been purchased by these KULAKS. I would be very happy if a combined effort can be thrashed upon these NEO-PROLETARIATS without having your Regionalism in mind! Thanks!    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:Commi antics by Charly Brown on Jun 21, 2008 03:04 PM  Permalink The commies will not agree to the deal since it will benefit India and they do not want India to progress more than China. Had a similar deal come from China, they would have called everyone names if the deal is not signed. anyway commies days are numbered after the next election. they may be showing a brave face, but actually they are shit scared of their future.    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:Commi antics by RAVINDRA JOSHI on Jun 21, 2008 07:57 PM  Permalink Why only Commies are scared of their future, the congress ias also not sure of their own future.    Forward   |   Report abuse

RE:Aage badho (on N-Deal) Manmohan hum tumhare saath hai by augustine fernandez on Jun 21, 2008 11:25 AM  Permalink absolutely right..commies want to enjoy power w/o the responsiblities attached to it!!!!and i think it is high time the others called thier bluff...if there is an election ,they are sure to be wiped out in kerala and badly dented in WB ( case in point the recent panchayath election)..the next lok sabha will surely have less than half of the current strength of 60..and knowing them they will then go to the people and blame the UPA for their dismal performance...price rise is a worldwide phenomeneon ( the chinese increased the price of petrolwum product by close to 20%).w/o nuclear energy india would surely be heading towards days of darkness and all the talk of self sufficiency is humbug ,given the track record of indian research and development,it will take years to master the technology to produce nuclear power and by then it would be too late!!!!)..the commies would allow to build dams ( environment/displacement....),they will not let the nuclear deal pass...they are afraid india will become more powerful than china!!!!    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:Aage badho (on N-Deal) Manmohan hum tumhare saath hai by Suresh T on Jun 21, 2008 06:27 PM  Permalink Pls. think before you comment. Most other parties try to get big portfolios for their MLAs, or ask for materialistic gains. Instead the Left is offering a model where the supporting parties talk about policies instead of getting monetory beneifits or ministries. The fact is the Congress has only 145/543 seats and hence go about doing things as it likes. Why was the need to go behind this deal and waste public money when this reality is well known.    Forward   |   Report abuse