As far as I'm concerned, there never was an Incredible India in the true sense of the word. What is incredible, though, is that people continue to live in the chaos that is India. It appears that few aspire to improve their lot - ideas seem to get stymied at the start, either due to the incredible red tape, or the "grease" that is required to get the wheels moving. Result: Why bother? It is only when such budding entrepreneurs move out of India that they really shine. Then you have the immense distrust of the fellow human being in India. Why is this, I don't know. Maybe Indians are born with it. Goans were trusting of one another at one time, a trait that has quite disappeared today. In any case, the recent boom was because of technology that was really run by Western interests. These interests are now looking after their own backsides due to the GFC, and the first to suffer are the overseas contractors. Indians are, by education, theorists, as very little technical and practical education seems to be imparted. Unless the education authorities introduce a year of practical work in the industry in the line of their University study, the engineers that these seats of learning are churning out will only be pen-pushers and get others least qualified to get the job done. As an example, solar-powered street lights with over-hanging tree-branches, as installed at Manipal Hospital - how these lamps will function only the "engineer" will know. Another example are the concrete blocks placed on top of storm-water drains, placed proud of the road. How the rain-water will rise up these blocks and get into the holes thence to the drain I don't know - capillary action perhaps? :-) I have noticed that very few places have these blocks placed at the sensible level, which means that someone did take the precaution of taking the height of the blocks into consideration when the drains were built. Gabriel.
>________________________________ >From: Gabe Menezes <gabe.mene...@gmail.com> >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> >Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012 6:49 PM >Subject: [Goanet] India’s slowdown > >Farewell to Incredible India Bereft of leaders, an Asian giant is destined >for a period of lower growth. The human cost will be immense > >
