Comments on: Hi from Singapore

By: Guru Gulab Khatri

Guru Gulab Khatri — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:21:54 +0000

I dont know what the cage analogy here is.
But to me living in singapore would be a cage.
I have been there(i didnt have to pay it was work related) and dont want to go their ever again.

By: Anuj

Anuj — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:37:38 +0000

Anybody who has had to sleep on an empty stomach will tell you that they would much rather live in a “cage” and be fed four squares, than go hungry.

By: gami

gami — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:19:29 +0000

I agree with the criticism of Singapore.
and it should be more severe concerning the awful smug attitude most Singapore Chinese have towards Indians.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:46:04 +0000

Wow, what a coincidence. I am a former student of OFS. Graduated from high school some 3 years back. My sis still goes there in the middle school. It’s a wonderful establishment and brings back many fond memories.

I pine for the day when the typical indian school will be like OFS. Heck even the typical singaporean one is nowhere near.

I hope the football ground is looking pristine. We had many a great game on it and some of our greatest victories on it and the nearby basketball courts. It certainly carries a history.

By: Guru Gulab Khatri

Guru Gulab Khatri — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:40:33 +0000

Singapore has no creativity.
They have sterilized that out of their system.

By: But Sir

But Sir — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:20:41 +0000

Singapore is one of the best examples of DeCi. A completely artificial paradise funded by the investment community using the exact same techniques you’ve written about in your ongoing DeCi series. An entire country smaller than the city of Bangalore, with a huge GDP. They made a country in the middle of the sea. Obviously no drinking water, they buy water from Malaysia. No sand for concrete and buildings, they buy sand from Indonesia. Nothing grows there, they buy food from everywhere. Singapore grows 5% of its total supply of 180,000 tons of fresh vegetables and imports rest from Malaysia, Indonesia. Bacon – imported. Beef – imported. Draconian laws to keep the peace. No assembly of more than 10 people in any place! Newspaper is govt mouthpiece. Despite all that, I still liked Singapore. I stayed there long enough, and I will hopefully never return, having tasted the freedom of the West. But Singapore is your DeCi. And I have a feeling less than 1% of Indians would want to live in that sort of a place, though eventually 100% might warm up to it after looking at the facilities. When I lived in Singapore, I felt I was living in a zoo. All your needs are met by the zoo-keeper. You simply have to wake up, stay in your cage and pose for the visitors. It is certainly better than fighting for food in the jungle. But if Singapore is one extreme and say Nandigram is the other extreme, there are lot of choices in between. I personally prefer the organic closed communities of Scandinavia. Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden these places rank much higher on my comfort level than Singapore.