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By: ankan

ankan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:15:09 +0000

Atanu

I hope you will finish your parts on Bihar as well

By: Shriram R

Shriram R — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:40:39 +0000

Hi Atanu,
It seems that Swami Anklesaria Iyer is also equally riled at the PM’s speech noted here –
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Ten_commandments_for_Dr_Singh/articleshow/2112102.cms
Hilarious, particularly the end.
-Shriram R

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By: Suhit Anantula

Suhit Anantula — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:48:52 +0000

Kiran:

I think you missed the point. The role of the leader of a billion people is not to talk nicely. But to show leadership.

Leadership is about showing the right direction. The Honourable Prime Minister of India needs to act and talk like the leader of a billion people.

Cheers,
Suhit

By: AG

AG — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:02:38 +0000

Atanu
I don’t think Manmohan is hearing you… he’s busy grovelling before his white masters, as you can see here:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=CAP/2007/06/09/11/Img/Pc0111300.jpg

Perhaps a fund for spine surgery?

By: Arvind

Arvind — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:45:21 +0000

Without the vision and power of execution, the nature takes its own course. As India was poor at the onset of independence, it was difficult to make all rich. “If you cannot make all rich, make all poor”. That is much easier and natural flow of not doing anything except fight elections and try level best to win by hook or crook.

If you make some rich, actually the poor get poorer by comparison. Hence our great leaders wanted to follow the ideal of equality – distribute poverty in equal measure. Where the equality was too unjust like the past treatment of lower caste, have reservation. Such mighty thinking and implementation, and we still crib. There is something wrong with us, cannot see the idealism of our leaders!

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:57:09 +0000

Hi Atanu

I looked at the PM’s speech and I agree it looked a little silly at some places. But basically, it is not evil. His speech is something like a religious injunction – “help your neighbors, love your friends …” It is not bad to talk like that, right ?

What gets really bad is when he starts saying he will be penalizing companies for not having social responsibility. That will be nasty. He did not display such a tone.

So, so far so good ?

The problem obviously is that the Government is not doing the job it is meant to do. It has no answerability to the CII. The vast majority of the citizens are completely incompetent in judging the performance of the government.

Maybe the CII should take a bolder step and demand direct answeribility from the government how the taxpayer’s money is being spent – especially on the issues which really matter like infrastructure and education.