Dear Dr. Falcao,
1. Most humbly I beg to differ from the views expressed by you on the captioned
subject on Goanet. I am aware of your skills and others of your persuasion, at
writing purple prose in English, and my woefully inadequate instrumentation in
this department. Yes, but surely that does not mean that I cannot marshall /
deploy or echo another international Indian who served at the highest echelons
of the United Nations. So here goes.
INDIAN DEMOCRACY.
India is the largest Democracy in the Animal kingdom on Planet Earth.
”Whatever you might say about its sclerotic bureaucracy versus China’s
efficient one, India’s tangle of red tape against China’s unfurled red carpet
to foreign investors, India’s contentious and fractious political parties
versus China’s smoothly functioning top down communist hierarchy ,there’s one
thing you have to grant: India has become an outstanding example of the
management of diversity through pluralistic democracy. Every Indian has been
allowed to feel he or she has as much a stake in the country, and as much a
chance to run it,as anyone else: after all,our last-but-one elections in
2004,were won by a woman political leader of Roman Catholic heritage who made
way for a Sikh to be sworn in as Prime
Minister by a Muslim President, in a nation 81 percent Hindu. And our largest
state was ruled till very recently by a Dalit woman, from a community once
considered ”untouchable”, whose caste and gender would have made her power
unthinkable for 3000 years before democracy made it possible. She wasn’t
promoted by a Brahmin elite in New Delhi: she rode to the top on the ballots of
her political base, building her own rainbow coalition on the way”
2. I am not aware that medical schools teach 'critical thinking' as part of the
course curriculum but yes I am aware that the military academies of the
Republic of India, that is Bharat do teach remedial English, military
geography, military history, human resource management, tactics,as a part and
parcel of the military curriculum,for aspiring Commissioned Officer candidates.
2. I look forward to your displaying a scientic temper and reviewing your
opinions on Indian democracy and the English language skills of Indians, based
on the small though representative size of facts canvassed by me.
With every good wish,
Gerry
