Sunday, June 19, 2005

Indians in the Race of development:

Few days ago, I was surfing in net to search articles. In the mean time, I found a very interesting topic about Indians who are really very competitive in world’s development process. Thomas Friedman writes in the context of western European nations rejecting the EU constitution – This is a bad time for France and friends to lose their appetite for hard work - just when India, China and Poland are rediscovering theirs.
The key secret is that India is taking work from Europe or America not simply because of low wages because Indians are ready to work harder and can do anything from answering your phone to designing your next airplane or car. They are not racing with Western developed country to the bottom however they are racing to the top. In fact, there is a huge famine breaking out all over India today, an incredible hunger which is not for food however it is a hunger for opportunity that has been unexpressed like volcanic lava under four decades of socialism, and it's now just started to bursting out with India's young generation. Few of my article like Bhrat Varsha’s civilization in which I have tried to include the different phases of ancient development in India. The Editor of The Indian Express Shekhar Gupta has expressed his view in his paper that India is the oldest civilization, the largest democracy and the youngest population - almost 70 percent is below age 35 and almost 50 percent is 25 and under. A grass-roots movement is now spreading in India who are demanding that English should be taught in state schools, where 85 percent of children go- beginning in first grade, not fourth grade. Even the poor have been to the cities enough to know that English is now the key to a technology sector job, and they want their kids to have access of those opportunities.The Indian state of West Bengal has the oldest elected Communist government left in the world today. The Communist government declared Information Technology work an "essential service," making it illegal for those workers to strike. This is not about wages at all - the whole wage differential thing is going to reduce very quickly. It is about people who have been starving "finally seeing the ability to realize their dreams.

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