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Monday, August 18, 2008 0:19Delayed post, nevertheless an important one!!! Its been close to 3 weeks since I touched down in India after completing my first stint abroad in Italy!
Italia was lovely… India just leaves me speechless… I’m not going to do the Italy has this… India doesnt have that kind of a comparison post…
But I’m definitely compelled to answer a few people that I met and keep meeting time and again with a “perspective” about MY country…
The answer is straightforward… The math is simple… When you dont have population, you dont have scale, and you can micromanage more effectively. Europe as a continent has just about the population India has as a country!
India is never about micromanagement… Heck, India is not even about management. India is just about scale… The scale of a billion and more heads… and counting… And still running strong…
And on a post that comes on the Independence day weekend… I can always still go back on the sentence I wrote a couple of lines above and say thus: Europe may have a truckload of things indians always dream of… But come august 15, no Italian ever has the pleasure of listening to A. R. Rahman’s rendition of the country’s national song!!!
Vande Mataram!
&
Jai Hind!!!
Alok says:
August 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Welcome Back dude! Hope you had a great trip.
It is true, the challenge in front us is totally different from the western countries and we shouldn’t forget there are other things that put us always forward. But a check is surely needed to realize when scaling it with population that there are many more issues which also need to be addressed and not just jumping into a foreigner’s shoes.
There is a fair amount of difference that we see the growth in terms of money coming in and the amount blood/sweat goes out to put the country in track with its actual growth.