It is 0200 here in Berlin now, so please forgive me for a ‘non VW’ post! I cannot but help wonder how much things have changed for our country over the last year. The story of emerging India is already dated. And so is the gloating over little successes and feel good arrival. Issues are complex, more real and complex than ever before, and Indians are going about them with this amazing quiet confidence. But are we communicating to the rest of the world well? Though things have moved on so much for all of us, we still depend on media which is either zoned on the snake charmer to Infosys story or even worse, on how India is different from China and catching up!
Give us a break. When I talk to my friends here in Europe, they do tell me about seeing smart ‘Incredible India’ banners on buses but they also tell me how little they really know about India in a real sense, deeper than the emerging and the rising et al.
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Hi!
Sorry to barge in like this…. I agree with Sanjukt Saha. India is too big to be brought down to its knees by stealing a little bit…
But, Mohammed brings up a very good point…. If history tells us anything… its that we don’t learn from history.
During the Nehruvian hey days, we were trying to become “Socialism-maxed-out” & “just-short-of-communist”. Now 50-60 years later we look back and say that Nehru was all worng and Manmohan is the best. Does it look like some 50yrs from now we are going to look back and say “How on earth can any one think being greedy is a good thing?”
What I’m trying to say is, may be we should put more thought into this… Agreed, Adam Smith, Hayek & Friedman were all correct (as of now) when it comes to economics, but instead of always trying to look up at someone else’s theories and results and think that it is also going to work for us is probably not the right solution….
-keshav
I said pharma as an example because i have information on how these pharma companies “really bleed” us.Please have a look at http://www.locostindia.com.
There is difference between “Business” and “Exploitation”. what we are seeing today is the total exploitation. we talk so much about Value to Customer and conveniently forget it when it comes to executing the same.
We are shrinking the Stakeholder to just the “investors”. What about communities as stakeholders.our land, our people, our taxes go into building these companies. we have a right to tell them to be fare with us.
I have good opinion on Globalization. See Joseph Stiglitz book “Making Globalization work”. The problem is spineless leadership and the greedy corporations primarily “INDIAN” that sells its own people for nothing. The real power of any country lies with the upwardly mobile middle class. we as part of this section should do something about it before we lose our nation to the class revolution spearheaded by the Maoists.
Cram, Mohammed, India is too big to be stolen like that! It is not only that big enterprise ‘steals’ from other countries. Big enterprise ‘steals’ anyway and anywhere, even in their own countries! And now, that would be too socialistic a view point. Because a country and its people is too large to be stolen.
Just look at our elections! The people are not dumb. Public…
The issue that you guys are pointing out is essentially what is good and sustainable business. My opinion: the idea itself is contradictory, at least for most businesses. Tell me, which CEO ‘really’ thinks about anything other than his stakeholders?
But then isn’t that the very nature of business?
Mohammed
Why stop at pharma MNCs? The retail giants, existing FIIs, cola b*****ds…there are just too many. A clear case of
East India Company 2.0.
Do you welcome Socialistic view points ?
For example.. Are we allowed to write about how MNC pharma companies are stealing INDIA.