India has been grinning over call centres and software companies, meanwhile for the unskilled there is a totally different and ugly reality.
India needs to reform its labour laws and defeat the labour union aristocracy, to create investment in blue-collar industry, so that the poor can have factory jobs. An economy can't be built on IT and services. There has to be room for the unskilled to get a leg up.
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Oh .. San you seem to have missed it man..!!!!(tongue in cheek!)
Havent u seen the words 'India' and 'superpower' being freely appended to every possible word out there 'IT', BT', Aerospace, Nano tech blah blah..
Indian media, the political class facilitated by an obviously blind middle class are already acting as if we have arrived on the world stage conveniently forgetting that superpowerdom is not a god given right but something we need to work towards..As Indians we are not willing to remove our rose tainted glasses ..
As we speak, our nuclear soverignity is being pawned..
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indo-US_nuke_talks_spill_into_fourth_day/articleshow/2219259.cms ,
Naxals have found new havens in the beautiful and peaceful Dakshin kannada http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Naxals_aim_Dakshina_Kannada_district/articleshow/2218781.cms
our PM is busy having sleepless nights over we all know what, and a certified crook is on to becoming the President...
News from India cannot get any worse or can it?
A jaded Indian....
Harish, I hear you, but it's ironically the labour union aristocracy which have blocked opportunities for the poor. If India's labour laws weren't as bad as they are, then the business community would have been setting up factories in droves. The prayers of the poor could have been answered long ago, before the invention of the PC, the internet or cheap telecom. But the labour union aristocracy wants to keep all opportunity trapped under their thumb, and so they won't allow it to happen. Labour unions would prefer to keep the poor trapped in bitterness and fed hollow slogans, rather than employed and genuinely fed. Labour unions are like drug dealers selling cocaine to the poor, to keep them addicted and helpless.
Totally spot on San..
Communists seem to work on the presumption that they have a monopoly on issues related to poverty and poor in India...They form this nice cabal called 'unions', worship foreign Gods, Marx, Lenin, Mao, strangulate growth, and create more poor people over which they can shed their crocodile tears..
Milking the poor, they are parasites of our nation..
They feed on the liberal values of Hinduism (while despising it in the same breath), the ignorance of the poor and most importantly on the poverty of alternate ideas in our national mainstream..
India's right wing polity is a joke..India's BJP should take a lesson or two from the Republican party on how to build a loyal, conservative base of voters and win elections regularly..
on a different note its great to have Rajeev and all u guys share u r wonderful thoughts on such critical issues facing our nation.. I cannot even remotely think going back to the olden days of Hindu , IE and ToI
Have you notice how the poor, suffering people always have "minority" names in such artlces?
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