The problem with India is its so called intellectual people, they never go to vote, they visit overseas countries once in a while n start licking the foreign ass at the drop of a hat.
India's biggest curse is, as always, its politicians n intellectuals.
just because, China is hosting Olympics games, hundreds and thousands of young toddlers were forced throughout the country years before to start preparing for the games, if you read about their life, its grueling -18 hours a day practice 7 days a week, if that is the price to pay to get a Gold Medal, your whole childhood n youth, then we don't want any of such medals, No Thanks!! We are better off without it.
I have tremendous respect for china, simply because its one of the very few nations like India, which has 4/5,000 years of history behind, infact we have quite a parallet system such as we have yoga n Ayurveda, they have ti-chi, we have vastu n they have Feng-Shui etc etc, we have own culture system n they have their own, some time just reflecting back to us, n their religion which is mostly Buddhist is also derived from India. They respect India a lot but when we will start respecting our own country? That is a BIG question?
RE:RE:Its not real China..
by Vijayendra Vakil on Sep 22, 2007 01:56 PM Permalink
To whom I vote. a) I don't have right to select my PM, President. b) I only send a person to Elected body to act as bounded labour, Every MP or MLA act for his / her party under party guideline. Till this how come we can get right persons to power. c) Party 'A'is bad, Party A's Candidate is 'X' who is good. Party 'B' is good, Party B's candidate 'Y' is bad. Now tell me whom should I Vote. If I vote X then i am getting BAD party in power. If I vote Y then I am sending a BAD person to elected body. Please solve my problem.
RE:Its not real China..
by Indian on Sep 22, 2007 05:06 PM Permalink
Vivek, I respect your feelings towards our Motherland, but you have to accept that what is written by the writer is close to truth. Just like India, China too has two sides - urban (which is mostly described in this article) and rural (its still not as bad as India). What we Indians have to realise that we are very emotional and still remember the embarasment we suffered from China in 1962. In China you will be surprised many people dont even remember about it. They simply look at Western countries to benchmark and improve themselves. India does get respect mainly because of Buddism and our recent IT related leadership. I have lived in China for the past 2 years or so to tell all this. I personally feel democracy is for educated people and somehow our politicians are so corrupt, money minded and power centric that we are lagging behind in most areas. Hope lies with enterpreneurs like Narayan Murthy, Ratan Tata, Mahindras etc...
