It looks your messages look well thought and not just a emotional outburst. But, I can't accept that Indians do nothing. Maybe among the jobs that use head we are following others. We dont invent, we still run the British designed coaches, which is hell during the summer time. No design changes have been put in, other than changing the body-building material.
But, on the other side. Let us take the case of the Mumbai rains some years ago and the Hurricane Katrina in the US. Mumbai received more rains that in some of the areas, the third floor of a multi-storeyed building was under water. The rainfall in New orleans was much less. Still, the Indian Army did a fantastic job in rescuing people with minimum casualty. Mind you, they have achieved this with almost zero infrastructure of Mumbai. Whereas in New Orleans, there are emergency lanes in almost all the streets and the US army has state of art tools like the speedboats and still they managed a very-poor job.
Take the case of the Indian farmer. With zero infrastructure he is keeping the most of the nation hunger-free. Of course, there are ill-fed people, but those are because of politics and not shortage of grains. Technically speaking, an Indian farmer is very much eligible for a noble prize.
India might now be poor, but just 300-400 years ago, 35% of the world's trade has been from India. -to be continued-
RE:Can this message calm Annu down?
by Siva on Jul 03, 2008 02:20 PM Permalink
India has had trade-relationships with almost all the countries. The name of the south-american snake Anaconda is an example. It has got its name from its ability to kill elephants, which is YannaiKondran in tamil. In 500 BC, Buddha has listed all the scientific stuff that could have ever been discovered by the humankind. He has spoken about his evolution from a single-celled creature and he has gone deeper in speaking about the sub-atomic particles. You just go through his preachings and there will be no need for you to speak about other inventions. The yogis in india(real ones not the duplicates who have big names in the society and run big organisations) are capable of hell a lot of activities that even Einstein wouldn't have dreamt off.
Our yogis have designed great spiritual processes starting from temples and alas, they finally came up with Sanskrit, whereby you are initiated into the spiritual process by just talking a language, after all the different forms of yoga.
No other country has contributed to spiritual processes than India. Chinese and Japanese processes take root in Buddhism. Jesus christ between his age of 16 and 30 lived in India learning buddhism.
Once you start investing your time in spiritual processes, all other urges fade away. Because, what you have in hand is priceless compared to other worldly products and inventions. That is why, we Indians have never shined in worldly inventions.
RE:Can this message calm Annu down?
by Annu Malik on Jul 03, 2008 02:26 PM Permalink
While i agree with the underlyign tone of what you are trying to say i beg to factually differ on katrina.
how can you compare the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded in history with just mere rains in mumbai and the top economic capital of india having zero infrastructure ??
do you even know what a hurricane is ? winds blowing constantly at 280 km / hour and the new orleans is an area below sea level and it got flooded but most people were evacuated well ahead of that time. Total populatation affected and evacuated millions well ahead of time , casualities mere 1836 ! and people evacuated more than 15 million plus. What happened when tsunami hit south India 18,000 dead and india couldnt evacuate so many in short time.
In no way can Indian be compared with US or other developed countries as for disaster preparedness.
but in India we have a bloody 'sab chalta hai attitude' and on top we feel 'somewhat superior' without any commensurate results on the real ground. why are you insanely comparing a simple heavy rain with a hurricane ?? first go read about what a hurricane is then comment.
And I DONT want stories of past glories that your grandfather ate food made of pure gold and all that stuff either which are of zero relevance today.
On the other hand I agree with you that we all do salute and appreciate the indian farmer who through ages and today still feed us a full 16% of world's population with only 2.3% of the world area.
