On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Kunal Kapoor <kunalkapoor1...@gmail.com> wrote: > cheeni, > with all sincere regards to ur words, and sentiments .. of course, i can see > china town in "amrika", yet i get food which does not taste that good. > of course in india, too, that taste has gone missing. but yet, if you try > real hard, drive 100 kms. out of any town in india, and then take some nasty > detour, for another 5 kms. is where the real india starts, and never ends.
As is the problem with analogies, I think you've understood my analogy backwards. My opinion is that India has done better than the US, in that it has innovated on original inputs, thanks to the two thousand year head start on globalization. > yes you are right, poverty has done the trick for our chemistry here, but > that in turn has given life to several other side "rich projects". Indeed, no experience is wasted, and there's something to learn from every experience. > what is the catalyst to undo this chemical reaction, then. I don't think there's a clear answer, but accumulation of wisdom, mostly but not always seems to come with wealth, so most realistically I'd say development and wealth accumulation. It won't happen in my lifetime but it seems poised to happen. The India of today isn't the India of yesterday (if ever there was one); the thing with history is it's the worst place to look for lessons, but there isn't a better alternative. Cheeni
