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3 comments:
Couldn't agree more with Cait Murphy...
As a nation we suffer from premature ejaculation...
For a long time we celebrated the past - the discovery of 'zero', mere desh ki dharti sona ugle...and now we live in the future(that's bright for us 1% of Indians)
it's time somebody painted a balanced perspective!
It's amazing how we exhibit the same tendency in our reaction to the performance of the Indian cricket team. Greg Chappell said, "We're never as good as they think we are. And never as bad as they make us out to be." Or something like that. Why are we, as a nation, so incapable at looking ourselves objectively? Is it because we have a deep-rooted inferiority complex?
Ubermaniam, that Chappell quote is on the mark. IMO we can't look at ourselves objectively because
1)We can't take criticism from our own and we aren't self critical enough. As people, companies and a nation we take criticism too personally.
2)Manish's 'premature ejaculation' theory. The smallest hint of light at the end of the tunnel and we are already celebrating.
Both of these are signs of a lack of confidence. We shouldn't forget the "we aren't as bad as they think we are" part. Every time we do something amazing (launch a satellite successfully) there'll be people pointing out half our population is poor. Yes, it is true but that satellite, the bandwidth it provides, the jobs that creates are our only way out of poverty. So let's not ignore this criticism but let's not let it dominate our thoughts.
What we need is not a campaign glorifying our past (desh ki dharti), the future or even the present (India Shining) but something that cultivates pride in excelling in our day to day job as a nation. We need something analogous to Japanese quality, German precision and American enterprise.
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