Blogging after a gap of nine months.....wanted to blog on a variety of topics..Ayodhya Verdict,hype surrounding the stupid micro-finance in India, CWG scam etc etc...But did not get any time!! Finally taking 10 minutes of my lunch time to blog.....!! Recently, I came across articles on Ratan Tata and Anand Mahindra donating $50 Mn (225 c) and $ 10 Mn (42 c)to their Alma Mater, the prestigious Harvard Business School. A wave of thoughts flooded my mind after reading this article in press.
The popular sentiment is they were generous and had the gratitude to remember their Alma Mater. No doubt, these were truly noble gestures!! But I wondered, Does Harvard whose financial condition is way ahead than any other University in India truly deserve this donation?? An University whose excess funds are multiplying every year in equity markets really want this charity??
Look at the state of Jharkhand..the state where Tatas set up their first steel plant languishing way behind with a literacy rate of less than 40%. The money that Tata donated to Harvard could have been used by him to build 100 elementary and primary schools in Jharkhand!! Tata could have used this to create an international management institute on the lines of IIMs and Harvard and named it The Tata School of Business!!
The donation that they have made would have made a huge difference had they did it to something more worth while!! If Harvard needs money, US Govt will chip in, Micrsoft will donate, the numerous I bankers that HBS had produced will make the amount in a matter of few seconds by going long- short. But who will develop the rural areas of India?? Who will improve the basic infrastructure here?? India needs such donations from her sons...If they dont who else will????
Friday, October 22, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sorry State of Affairs!!
Blogging after a period of six months...on Valentine's Day!! Hold on...it's not going to be a romantic one..A blog after perturbed by the Pune terror attack!! Over the last 50 years, thousand of our brothers and sisters have fallen prey to the terror acts committed by Pakistan. Pune attack cannot be treated as yet another attack. One should note the perfect timing..just 2 weeks before Indo-Pak talks and when the entire Maharashtra police were busy protecting the stupid movie halls showing an arbit movie starring a Muslim hero, who wanted players from Pakistan to play for his franchisee. The entire English media opposed and bashed Bal Thackeray who took SRK on this Pak players issue. Once again the Sena tiger has proved that there is nothing wrong in PAK and Muslim bashing. Will Indian government take stringent action against Pak and the perpetrators of this crime?? The answer is obvious --- NO.
As long as India bows to US pressure,India will never win her battle against terrorism.Look at Israel..a small attack is enough to provoke it. Look at the force and guts with which it retaliates. India does not have the guts to do it. Few experts might claim that PAK is a nuclear power and a war with it would have a disastrous effect and justify India's impotency (inability) to wage a war against PAK.
What should India do??
Option 1:
1. Wage a war against Pakistan. Wipe out the country from World Map. We do not have the guts to do this. Only few leaders like Patel, Indira Gandhi or Advani can take such bold steps. A govt run by a puppet with strings pulled by a foreigner can never do this.
Option 2:
1. As option 1 seems impossible, India should take action to protest its citizens against such actions in future. A complete revamp of internal security and intelligence forces is needed. Politicians should stop their minority appeasement policies. Modis and Thackerays are the right persons to deal with minorities. When you have a senior leader from the ruling party visiting and consoling the parents of a terrorist who was killed in an encounter,Pune attack is not a surprise at all. Revamp of intelligence forces looks highly improbable, given the corrupt nature of our bureaucracy and the deterioration in the quality of people entering govt service.
Given the current state of affairs,we poor Indians have no other choice but to read about these attacks on Newspapers and hope against hope that we do not become the victim of one such attack!! Truly sorry state of affairs!! Even God cannot save this country!!
As long as India bows to US pressure,India will never win her battle against terrorism.Look at Israel..a small attack is enough to provoke it. Look at the force and guts with which it retaliates. India does not have the guts to do it. Few experts might claim that PAK is a nuclear power and a war with it would have a disastrous effect and justify India's impotency (inability) to wage a war against PAK.
What should India do??
Option 1:
1. Wage a war against Pakistan. Wipe out the country from World Map. We do not have the guts to do this. Only few leaders like Patel, Indira Gandhi or Advani can take such bold steps. A govt run by a puppet with strings pulled by a foreigner can never do this.
Option 2:
1. As option 1 seems impossible, India should take action to protest its citizens against such actions in future. A complete revamp of internal security and intelligence forces is needed. Politicians should stop their minority appeasement policies. Modis and Thackerays are the right persons to deal with minorities. When you have a senior leader from the ruling party visiting and consoling the parents of a terrorist who was killed in an encounter,Pune attack is not a surprise at all. Revamp of intelligence forces looks highly improbable, given the corrupt nature of our bureaucracy and the deterioration in the quality of people entering govt service.
Given the current state of affairs,we poor Indians have no other choice but to read about these attacks on Newspapers and hope against hope that we do not become the victim of one such attack!! Truly sorry state of affairs!! Even God cannot save this country!!
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