When two equally dominant patriachs of two neighboring
families come and meet over a dinner to discuss the role they played in
shaping the ethos of the family;it often ends in strategic moral play
and lot of down tones and lively banter.But when the same issues
transgresses to the national respect the situation is more the same but
the accountability factor of governance comes to play.When we call of
India and China to be the issue of contention and who will turn to a
bigger superpower the question of morality and ego and equally the
question of consistence in continuance comes to play.The shadows of the
past have shown both China and India as the largest empires of rule .If
China consists of a eminently strong population of 20% of the entire
population India ranks close second in 18%.
But where is the difference between the two.China is rolling ahead in the economic scenario with its avalanche schemes of financial superiority.
That makes us ask will the situation remain the same in the coming years or is it petulance and the strict discipline that the sages taught which will bring us back as a nation of reckoning in Governance sector.
There is a saying with the coming of the British in India and going of the Raj; lord Vishwakarma fled from India to China .The manufacturing sector in China and the realty boom has been going boom boom or gung ho as Chinese firms create new milestone give more credit to US and create a new order.
But where lies the real issues.
If we see modern India, the Indian system keeps gropling heavily on a coterie of politicians diplomats industrialist filmstars and a few of the mango generation are rendering their weight on the subjective art of Selling and Reselling a brand.
A shah Rukh Khan has to still sell a Raj or a Dilwale dulhaniya train seen to be recognized for his films.A Cricketer has to still sell and resell his centuries he made to prove he is in the topmost bracket of the elite group.A politician has to still sell and resell godhra riots babri masjid demolition and the whole lot to prove of his competence with someone else...
If that is not all attending a developmental economist lectures may be a test of endurance but having done that with attending a brilliant question and interaction section for Amartya Sens and Jean Dreze An UnCertain glory I got a taste of the apathy Indian civilized executives have for a nation they lived in for four thousand years.
India suffers from a multi dimensional poverty index;Even Bangladesh is ahead of Indian states in terms of providing vitamin supplemets for the young.Where bangaldesh is at 81% India ia weak at 18%.Less than 40% can read a paragraph.Kerala has unique social indicators.In the modern scenario Chattisgarh Orissa and Madhya Pradesh came up with ICDS schemes for children.Himachal Pradesh has seen an excellent turnover with primary education.Gujarat and Rajasthan model has succeded a few places but baring this the rest is like a dead tomb of self eulogizing babus and dictats.Universal health care and Primary health security bill needs to be followed in every state and needs conditional optimization.
We need aggressive and an intrusive agricultural marketting scenario.This is one sector which will lead the rest of the beehive to thrive.The question still remains whether a China can consider us as contender in their own game or as as the same old pyajama ka naara which holds everything in place because it was made to be like that.China will have a lot to answer in English if they destroy us.So let the superpowers scratch what they do not want to hurt.
But the biggest problem in Indian politics lies we sell and resell Indian tradition through our filmy drama and not through products which speak of our endurance of earning the independence and the constitution we have after generations of toil.
China is going steadfast of distribution and redistribution.The entire ghost cities like Ordos in inner mongolia and the whole lot built replete with skyscrapers, shopping malls, highways, parks and other facilities, but which are entirely empty of people.This may be the way of the dragon but the process of redistributon of static property like land and place has already started before it has been thought by the future world.
Is there a way forward for India stop appeasing the centuries old behavior of selling and reselling we used to sell the idea that India was at the forefront of studies in foreign affairs; agriculture; medicine and sanitation are some of the ideas we get studying the cities of Indus valley.This needs to believed again and then promoted by Indians.
According to Mathew McCartney director of contemporary south Asian studies at Britain's Oxford UniversityIndia cannot compete with China's 'efficient' system of corruption, a British academic told a conference in Brussels. was there to document the debatePublicServiceEurope.com
While both countries suffer from high levels of corruption, China's one party system has a "more efficient" business-friendly system for paying backhanders. In India, on the other hand, corruption is "unpredictable" and is seen as more of a tax on investment -
"The strong centralised Communist Party has efficiently organised corruption," McCartney said. Large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams are simply forced through in China whereas the Indian government struggles to push past "populist, fragmented" interest groups. "For all developed countries, democracy and property rights have been a product of economic development - not a pre-condition," McCartney said.
India's strong democratic institutions were likely to be a "handicap" to future growth rather than a boost, he predicted. "Good democracies emerge as a consequence of development," he said. "If you look at the statistics you will see that it is difficult to find a link between democracy and growth." Rather than plough money into democracy in under-developed nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq, the international community would do better to investment in other areas - such as the education of girls, he suggested.
Historically speaking, countries that have experienced large leaps forward in economic terms have not been particularly democratic at the time - he pointed out. As an example he took the United Kingdom of the 1830s, when the industrial revolution was in full swing. At the time, only 1 per cent to 2 per cent of the population had the right to vote. His comments led a former official of the European External Action Service, the European Union's diplomatic corps, to wonder out loud if Europe was not "too democratic" to achieve its growth goals. Does the EU need a dictatorship to redress its downward spiral?
"I hate hearing democracy knocked," retorted Naina Lal Kidwai, president of the federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. What was important was a "combination of democracy and leadership", she said. "What we have to knock is coalition governments not democracy per se."
Talking at the conference interval, McCartney told PublicServiceEurope.com that despite his presentation he was a "big fan of democracy". Governance by the people was however more likely to "stick" in countries that had achieved a certain level of per capita income, he said, citing statistical research going back more than 200 years. Countries can swing between democracy and dictatorship almost at random, he maintained. Democracies can be found in poor countries and rich countries, but they are more likely to be enduring in wealthy countries.
But where is the difference between the two.China is rolling ahead in the economic scenario with its avalanche schemes of financial superiority.
That makes us ask will the situation remain the same in the coming years or is it petulance and the strict discipline that the sages taught which will bring us back as a nation of reckoning in Governance sector.
There is a saying with the coming of the British in India and going of the Raj; lord Vishwakarma fled from India to China .The manufacturing sector in China and the realty boom has been going boom boom or gung ho as Chinese firms create new milestone give more credit to US and create a new order.
But where lies the real issues.
If we see modern India, the Indian system keeps gropling heavily on a coterie of politicians diplomats industrialist filmstars and a few of the mango generation are rendering their weight on the subjective art of Selling and Reselling a brand.
A shah Rukh Khan has to still sell a Raj or a Dilwale dulhaniya train seen to be recognized for his films.A Cricketer has to still sell and resell his centuries he made to prove he is in the topmost bracket of the elite group.A politician has to still sell and resell godhra riots babri masjid demolition and the whole lot to prove of his competence with someone else...
If that is not all attending a developmental economist lectures may be a test of endurance but having done that with attending a brilliant question and interaction section for Amartya Sens and Jean Dreze An UnCertain glory I got a taste of the apathy Indian civilized executives have for a nation they lived in for four thousand years.
India suffers from a multi dimensional poverty index;Even Bangladesh is ahead of Indian states in terms of providing vitamin supplemets for the young.Where bangaldesh is at 81% India ia weak at 18%.Less than 40% can read a paragraph.Kerala has unique social indicators.In the modern scenario Chattisgarh Orissa and Madhya Pradesh came up with ICDS schemes for children.Himachal Pradesh has seen an excellent turnover with primary education.Gujarat and Rajasthan model has succeded a few places but baring this the rest is like a dead tomb of self eulogizing babus and dictats.Universal health care and Primary health security bill needs to be followed in every state and needs conditional optimization.
We need aggressive and an intrusive agricultural marketting scenario.This is one sector which will lead the rest of the beehive to thrive.The question still remains whether a China can consider us as contender in their own game or as as the same old pyajama ka naara which holds everything in place because it was made to be like that.China will have a lot to answer in English if they destroy us.So let the superpowers scratch what they do not want to hurt.
But the biggest problem in Indian politics lies we sell and resell Indian tradition through our filmy drama and not through products which speak of our endurance of earning the independence and the constitution we have after generations of toil.
China is going steadfast of distribution and redistribution.The entire ghost cities like Ordos in inner mongolia and the whole lot built replete with skyscrapers, shopping malls, highways, parks and other facilities, but which are entirely empty of people.This may be the way of the dragon but the process of redistributon of static property like land and place has already started before it has been thought by the future world.
Is there a way forward for India stop appeasing the centuries old behavior of selling and reselling we used to sell the idea that India was at the forefront of studies in foreign affairs; agriculture; medicine and sanitation are some of the ideas we get studying the cities of Indus valley.This needs to believed again and then promoted by Indians.
According to Mathew McCartney director of contemporary south Asian studies at Britain's Oxford UniversityIndia cannot compete with China's 'efficient' system of corruption, a British academic told a conference in Brussels. was there to document the debatePublicServiceEurope.com
While both countries suffer from high levels of corruption, China's one party system has a "more efficient" business-friendly system for paying backhanders. In India, on the other hand, corruption is "unpredictable" and is seen as more of a tax on investment -
"The strong centralised Communist Party has efficiently organised corruption," McCartney said. Large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams are simply forced through in China whereas the Indian government struggles to push past "populist, fragmented" interest groups. "For all developed countries, democracy and property rights have been a product of economic development - not a pre-condition," McCartney said.
India's strong democratic institutions were likely to be a "handicap" to future growth rather than a boost, he predicted. "Good democracies emerge as a consequence of development," he said. "If you look at the statistics you will see that it is difficult to find a link between democracy and growth." Rather than plough money into democracy in under-developed nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq, the international community would do better to investment in other areas - such as the education of girls, he suggested.
Historically speaking, countries that have experienced large leaps forward in economic terms have not been particularly democratic at the time - he pointed out. As an example he took the United Kingdom of the 1830s, when the industrial revolution was in full swing. At the time, only 1 per cent to 2 per cent of the population had the right to vote. His comments led a former official of the European External Action Service, the European Union's diplomatic corps, to wonder out loud if Europe was not "too democratic" to achieve its growth goals. Does the EU need a dictatorship to redress its downward spiral?
"I hate hearing democracy knocked," retorted Naina Lal Kidwai, president of the federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. What was important was a "combination of democracy and leadership", she said. "What we have to knock is coalition governments not democracy per se."
Talking at the conference interval, McCartney told PublicServiceEurope.com that despite his presentation he was a "big fan of democracy". Governance by the people was however more likely to "stick" in countries that had achieved a certain level of per capita income, he said, citing statistical research going back more than 200 years. Countries can swing between democracy and dictatorship almost at random, he maintained. Democracies can be found in poor countries and rich countries, but they are more likely to be enduring in wealthy countries.
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