tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541932556883007970.post7265338528341852856..comments2021-07-26T10:01:36.464+01:00Comments on Two Tonnes: India, it's a dumpAndy Paghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530441275491678452noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541932556883007970.post-12067602733452473892010-11-02T21:40:27.846+00:002010-11-02T21:40:27.846+00:00I think Andy's right in his opinion in many wa...I think Andy's right in his opinion in many ways. Even though India's economy is booming none of the money seems to be filtering down to the poor and needy. India recently hosted the commonwealth games in the brand new stadium complex where 50 people died in the making but most of the seats were empty as the average indian couldn't afford to go and india doesn't even have many athletes due to the non existing funding for sports in general. Perhaps the money would have been better used in helping all the other more urgent areas,rather than trying to make india look like it's some kind of international player in the sports world.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058842569235026627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541932556883007970.post-53755990158899753692010-09-16T05:22:38.908+01:002010-09-16T05:22:38.908+01:00Thankyou for your well expressed insight...Thankyou for your well expressed insight...The Flying Tortoisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212913610390768373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541932556883007970.post-44721156469153066532010-09-11T13:57:11.593+01:002010-09-11T13:57:11.593+01:00From Revitej Mago, a good friend and one of the bu...From Revitej Mago, a good friend and one of the business leaders I talked about in the blog:<br /><br />Dear Andy,<br /><br />Hi, How are you doing? I hope things are going much more smoothly for you. The other day I was just wondring how you were doing and I just happened to read your Blog. Really don't know what to say about your impression that you are carrying about here. I mean yes you had a very harrowing time here and that things always did manage to get the better of you at times but then hey that's how India is. Politicians are corrupt, streets are dirty, people are hungry and there is so much more that can be done to improve this country that though claims to be the motherland of civilization and many other things and yet has been a slave for a good part of last 2000 years. All the while when the world was making progress and busy making lives of humankind better and more comfertable, India was fighting for survival. We became self sufficient for food only 40 years ago. and a nuclear power 6 years after that.<br /><br />You see the human mind can work only if the stomach is full and without food even the greatest of armies can't move. Even Napolean said so Himself. You can imagin that Europe was able to be self sufficent and provide food for itself a good 3 to 4hundred years ago and yet it took what like another 250 years to Discover the power of atom. Yet we did it in so less time. But that's not the point I am trying to make. The point that I am trying to make is that the world has a good lead of 200 years of developments on us but we are trying to get there and trust me when I say this being the second most populated nation does not make things easier for us.<br /><br />So I request you to please think of all these things before you judge my country and motherland and come to a conclusion that "India-It's a Dump"<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />RavitejAndy Paghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02530441275491678452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541932556883007970.post-71441512460271055292010-09-08T04:34:16.758+01:002010-09-08T04:34:16.758+01:00Andy, as always eloquently expressed. As you know,...Andy, as always eloquently expressed. As you know, I agree with you on this 100%. Every person I've ever met here, including Indians, expats and my own Indian born and raised husband, see the romantic side of India and are indifferent to its troubles/struggles and sadly sit idly by and accept it as, 'well, this is India.' <br /><br />And though you suffered great challenges here -- and at a level that not one of us can truly relate to -- I am happy that life brought you this way. It was a pleasure meeting you and being a part of your mission. I wish you all the best in moving forward and putting India behind you. I will keep plugging away here, little by little, doing my part in helping it realize its potential, even though I'd rather be just about any place but here.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08246317484416177316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541932556883007970.post-29035451429489063132010-09-07T06:36:29.542+01:002010-09-07T06:36:29.542+01:00Andy, I am deeply saddened by so outright rejectio...Andy, I am deeply saddened by so outright rejection of my country.Its to harsh to claim that out of all the countries you have been to India is the worst. Pls don't let us make believe that everything is hunky dory elsewhere.<br />Anyways Take Care.PRAVEEN DUTTAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17310399421206374308noreply@blogger.com