Comments on: Why don’t they feel the pain? http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Suhit Anantula http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Suhit Anantula Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-85 Atanu: . That was a very important statement. This needs to be a headline!!! A big one!!! Suhit Atanu:

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That was a very important statement. This needs to be a headline!!! A big one!!!

Suhit

]]> By: Suhit Anantula http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Suhit Anantula Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-86 Atanu: Missed it in the last one. "These are the weapons of mass destruction -- these weapons destroy whether they are actually used in conflict or not. That was a very important statement. This needs to be a headline!!! A big one!!! Suhit Atanu:

Missed it in the last one.

“These are the weapons of mass destruction — these weapons destroy whether they are actually used in conflict or not.

That was a very important statement. This needs to be a headline!!! A big one!!!

Suhit

]]> By: divya http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-87 divya Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-87 I agree with your views completely. However, I am not sure if the money not spent in such futile chest beating would actually be useful. Given the wide spread corruption everywhere, the governmnet officials will find creative ways of pocking the whole lot of money.. perhaps even more creative than the Telgi Paper Scam. I agree with your views completely. However, I am not sure if the money not spent in such futile chest beating would actually be useful. Given the wide spread corruption everywhere, the governmnet officials will find creative ways of pocking the whole lot of money.. perhaps even more creative than the Telgi Paper Scam.

]]> By: Karun http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Karun Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-88 Hi Atanu, So let's solve development issues ourselves instead of relying on the govt! I know that is what you are involved in, and there can be more of us in the effort. My suggestion is vocational training for people to learn modern skills. Some take my suggestion and convert it into a government program, but my suggestion is that we need competitive private trainers, and the market should monitor the effectiveness of each and direct loans to the ones that prove effective. The government cannot know everything and we need to discover what works through experiment. Check out our new grassroots campaign to bring awareness! We have 14 cities around the world and 50 sign ups so far. See http://www.k-capital.com. Regards, Karun. Hi Atanu,

So let’s solve development issues ourselves instead of relying on the govt! I know that is what you are involved in, and there can be more of us in the effort.

My suggestion is vocational training for people to learn modern skills. Some take my suggestion and convert it into a government program, but my suggestion is that we need competitive private trainers, and the market should monitor the effectiveness of each and direct loans to the ones that prove effective. The government cannot know everything and we need to discover what works through experiment.

Check out our new grassroots campaign to bring awareness! We have 14 cities around the world and 50 sign ups so far. See http://www.k-capital.com.

Regards,

Karun.

]]> By: Desi Bhai http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Desi Bhai Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-89 As you said <i>"So now both India and Pakistan are forced to keep up with the expensive sophisticated weapons that the US and other weapon manufacturing states create, only one generation behind."</i> <br /> Not only do they ALWAYS stay a generation or two behind, they end up spending valuable foreign exchange in buying OVERPRICED weaponry. If instead, they had invested that money in their own research (over a period of time), they could catch up and lead instead of always staying a generation or two behind... As you said
“So now both India and Pakistan are forced to keep up with the expensive sophisticated weapons that the US and other weapon manufacturing states create, only one generation behind.”

Not only do they ALWAYS stay a generation or two behind, they end up spending valuable foreign exchange in buying OVERPRICED weaponry. If instead, they had invested that money in their own research (over a period of time), they could catch up and lead instead of always staying a generation or two behind…

]]> By: ideabank http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-90 ideabank Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-90 http://costofwar.com/ http://costofwar.com/

]]> By: Rohit Rajaraman http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Rohit Rajaraman Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-91 Come to think of it, I guess this concept can be extended to most of the things we import- cars, computers etc. (not the actual item necessarily, but the technology) Come to think of it, I guess this concept can be extended to most of the things we import- cars, computers etc. (not the actual item necessarily, but the technology)

]]> By: Naveen Bachwani http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Naveen Bachwani Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-92 Atanu, As a business management student in '97-'98, I remember being shocked at learning that India's defence budget was in excess of Rs. 28,000 crores ! And that was then. God knows how massive that allocation is today. But, for all that shock, I never thought of this problem from the point of view that these "weapons destroy whether they are used or not". As always, your perspective provides an interesting twist in an age-old problem... Naveen Atanu,

As a business management student in ‘97-’98, I remember being shocked at learning that India’s defence budget was in excess of Rs. 28,000 crores ! And that was then. God knows how massive that allocation is today.

But, for all that shock, I never thought of this problem from the point of view that these “weapons destroy whether they are used or not”.

As always, your perspective provides an interesting twist in an age-old problem…

Naveen

]]> By: Venkat Ramanan http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Venkat Ramanan Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-93 Atanu, wonderful thought! inspite of so many of you, crying hard, why aren't the people at centre showing any effort in improving basic education and infrastructural amenities? we in chennai are crying for water and better roads while a cool billion dollars is being pocketed by US for merely giving a few WMDs, and then India also has to face the Outsourcing law, can't the people sense the cunning nature of the west? why should all the countries be dependent on the west? can't we develop a self-sustainable development model, which has lesser influence from the west? because, the IT development now spoken of, is just a few jobs that have been sent to India, mostly back office processing. they haven't recognised our talents there in the US, but are merely paying us peanuts and employing us. nothing really worthy has taken off, to feel India Shining, when we people in cities cry for amenities. something has to be done, or else, we may escape a little earlier, while the generations to follow may have to suffer heavily for the mistakes we have been doing Atanu, wonderful thought! inspite of so many of you, crying hard, why aren’t the people at centre showing any effort in improving basic education and infrastructural amenities? we in chennai are crying for water and better roads while a cool billion dollars is being pocketed by US for merely giving a few WMDs, and then India also has to face the Outsourcing law, can’t the people sense the cunning nature of the west? why should all the countries be dependent on the west? can’t we develop a self-sustainable development model, which has lesser influence from the west? because, the IT development now spoken of, is just a few jobs that have been sent to India, mostly back office processing. they haven’t recognised our talents there in the US, but are merely paying us peanuts and employing us. nothing really worthy has taken off, to feel India Shining, when we people in cities cry for amenities. something has to be done, or else, we may escape a little earlier, while the generations to follow may have to suffer heavily for the mistakes we have been doing

]]> By: ravi srinivas http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-94 ravi srinivas Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-94 on weapons and arms race i agree that these are not only drain on our resources today but we are getting suck in a vicious cycle.the mighty USSR crumbled because it spent too much on arms and armed forces.and about the military-industry complex the less said the better it is.see www.essential.org on weapons and arms race i agree that these are not only drain on our resources today but we are getting suck in a vicious cycle.the mighty USSR crumbled because it spent too much on arms and armed forces.and about the military-industry complex the less said the better it is.see
http://www.essential.org

]]> By: Ramdhan Kotamaraja http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/01/21/why-dont-they-feel-the-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Ramdhan Kotamaraja Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/01/21/79#comment-95 A comment is posted on this <a href="http://www.ramdhanyk.com/movabletype/archives/thoughtprocess/000562.html">link</a> A comment is posted on this link

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