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Beta, irrespective of who needs passport, what you were saying about Indian "confidence" being improved because of Khalistan oppression is proved wrong. Bharat-mata thinks Kashmir is its 'atoot-ang', but this 'atoot' is desperate to get 'toot'. Even Kashmiri Hindus want their separate country.
So much for Bharat-mata's confidence. hehehe.
:D
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And dhoti-babu, you probably who said Gao-mata allows Pakistanis to go to Occupied Kashmir with or without passport? Hell, Mata does not even allow international observers to go to Occupied Kashmir. tsk tsk tsk.
sigh. May God help Kashmiris from Mata's tyranny.
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hehe. 10% is still a lot of population. I am saying it irrespective of the fact that you came up with this 10% figure out of nowhere.
Oh really? It's good to know that Bharatis do not consider Kashmir to be an issue threatening Indian union. Of course it is not. Because Kashmir never was Bharat-mata's part.
hehe. It's good to see a Bharati so concerned about Pakistan that he comes to a Pakistani board especially to hope that we can control NWFP and Balochistan, even though he knows JACK about these places. :D Ooh, may be he gets his ideas from biased/Hindutva-based Bharati media. May be it will be better for his own and for his Bharat-mata's future if he gives more consideration to oppressed people in Bharat like Kashmiris, Dalits, Nagas, etc. etc.
U can comment on assam and the nagas and punjab, but we cant comment on baluchi problem. Is that not strange to u.
Do u think in ur wildest dreams that pakistan will get kashmir. :D.
How many more attempts do u require to get that into ur head. Indians know that there is no reason to be afraid of kashmir. There are only fringe elements in kashmir which wants a merger with pakistan. unlike the punjab issue which threatened to steam roll into a major military and police problem. There were large concentration of sikhs in military and pujab police. But its with them only that we could end khalistan movement. :)
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How incredible is India?
- By Shahid Javed Burki
Washington: I have written frequently in the op-ed pages of the Pakistani newspapers about India�s seeming success as an economy, as a society and as a political system. India appears to be succeeding while Pakistan continues to struggle. The picture I have presented in my articles in the Pakistani press is that of a country that has benefited from a combination of some accidents in history as well as the wisdom and foresight of some of its many leaders. One example of political wisdom working with an accident was Jawaharlal's Nehru's decision to accept the American offer of assistance for economic development. He asked the United States to establish institutions of technology. That foresight was followed by an accident of history.
When the institutions created with American assistance began to produce highly qualified engineers, India, suffering from the "Hindu rate of growth," did not have enough space to accommodate the new graduates. A large number of them left for jobs abroad, mostly in America�s high-tech industries. They quickly climbed the American corporate ladders and introduced India to their seniors. It was through the eyes of the NRIs that much of corporate America saw India. It liked what it saw.
Hundreds � if not thousands � of western corporations are now engaged with India. What do they see in the country beyond the hordes of highly competent engineers, scientists, management gurus, and financial experts being turned out by world class institutions? They see the India that was described by their Indian colleagues � the members of the NRI community � and they believe in the India the government and the corporate sector is selling to the West. Any visitor to the recently concluded Davos conclave of policymakers and world�s movers and shakers couldn�t help being impressed by the slickness of the "Incredible India" campaign. The India that was being sold was a land of mystery and of a culture totally different from the one that was facing troubled times in the West. India offered not only incredible business opportunities, enormous human talent, a rapidly expanding economy. In addition, it also offered tranquility, a sense of well-being, yoga and ayurvedic and modern medicine. This is an exceptionally attractive sell to the harried western entrepreneurs.
India will succeed further if this projection does not begin to conflict with the Indian reality. Having visited India more often in the last 12 months than I did in the previous 50 years, I have travelled along a trajectory that many other foreigners will take. Once they begin to get to know the country they will also begin to see its many warts. With any love at first sight the disillusionment can be as unforgiving as the initial fascination. A let-down in first love can be a painful experience. India � the official India � cannot afford to let that happen to the hordes of eager business people who crowd the India-bound aircraft, the country�s hotels, bars and restaurants.
This disenchantment is exactly the experience of Suketu Mehta, an NRI, who returned to Bombay nee Mumbai to write the story of the city in which he was born, in which he once lived and with which he has a love affair. The city in which he resettled for a while collecting the material for his extraordinary book is very different from the place he left a quarter century earlier. Mehta�s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is a fascinating story of a city that combines economic and cultural dynamism with social decay, political chicanery, bureaucratic corruption and police brutality. Gangs roam the streets much as they do in many other large cities of the world. But there is a difference with what the gangs in Mumbai have begun to seek in addition to the usual fare � extortion, vengeance, filling in for the government for the provision of such services as water and electric supply. The troubling thing about Mumbai is that in their spare time the gangs are equipping themselves to fight the next big communal fight in Mumbai.
A gang that gets its recruits mostly from amongst the impoverished Muslim community in the city "is watching what is going on around the Babri Masjid very closely," writes Mehta. "If there is much trouble over the mosque it won�t be like last time; this time they are prepared to respond instantly. Many people in far off places will die� The next affair, Mohsin (a gang member) says, will happen all over the world, a global war of Islam against its enemies. They have numbers and geography on their side."
My own observations and Indian writings such as Maximum City have made me more aware of the weaknesses that India must overcome before it really becomes "incredible." Much rides for the developing world on India�s long-term success. If success happens it will demonstrate that it does not take "Asian values" held out by the leaders of East Asia�s miracle economies for success to be achieved. It can happen in a democratic system that can give voice to all segments of a very diverse population, distribute to the poor the rewards of economic expansion, create the institutions of governance that work for common citizens and keep away the grabbing hands of the rentier classes.
The Indian state in its many manifestations must also be able to deliver basic services to all people, build roads on which traffic can flow with relative ease, ease congestion on the railways, reduce the enormous back-log in the judicial system, improve the educational and health systems for the poor. The list is long but it is within the grasp of India. If these and other problems are not addressed the incredible India will become a poster child and the foreigner who has arrived with such hope will simply pack up his bags and leave.
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**Incredible India - What a farce? **
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True..All this is pure marketing and the actual India is so full of problems...and all that would make an outsider cringe...
And the large section of India which is poor, oppressed etc is anyways unaffected by whether India markets itself this way or doesnt market itself this way (that money would never have made it to the common man anyways)
But the only good thing all this does is that Indians who read only the glorious things that Indian media writes about the country feel more confident and try doing things that they otherwise would never have...I mean all the things that one does not do because of inferiority complex get eliminated to some extent...Should I put this way...these Indians feel more proud of their country and than others from Sub-cont..(so what if that pride is not justified...at least not to a great extent). And for anyone who has stepped out of their country would know that pride for your country does make a difference in all that you do....
So it doesnt do any harm to India or Indians...so how the hell does it matter if all this is not true...India is incredible as well as Chaotic etc etc...but who is perfect....
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abey, it was Bharat Gao-lovers who first started raising their ‘hye hye’ about Balochistan.
hehehe. Kashmiris themselves will get their freedom from the Gao-Mata’s tyranny.
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hehehe. Kashmiris themselves will get their freedom from the Gao-Mata's tyranny.
Unless something goes majorly wrong with India's economic or political position, that is never going to happen (coz rest of India is fed on what Indian media tells them and so there are enough Indians who will die fighting for the cause they believe in (thats about Kashmir being an integral part of their mother land - whatever abusive term you may choose to call it by which is quite inconsequential anyways) as much as the Kashmiris or the pakis sponsoring them might genuinely believe their cause(of kashmir's freedom or becoming part of Pakistan). So good for you if you want to continue with your dream. I shal live mine (and so shall many more Indians vis-a-vis Pakis)
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that's about all you can do princy boy! just sit there 'hehehe'ing' while India becomes the 3rd largest economy in the world. I'll give a quick education of our confidence.
US and Europe are flocking to India to invest, buy and sell. Golden quadrilateral is in full swing, manufacturing and service sectors domestic and international are growing at pace, all villages powered in 4 year in full swing. Chinese premier, Scandinavians and your buddy Bush all want to visit Bangalore and Hyderabad to take notes.
What do you have to show? Musharaf, KBD and Baluchistan. Don't bring shame to the rest of your countrymen in GS by trying to use insults. When you insult another religion or country you simply are inviting the same slurs on yourself and exposing your ignorance.