Comments on: Where to be born

By: Nex

Nex — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:42:00 +0000

Whoever thinks it is better to be born in India or China in 1988 than Singapore back then is clearly on drugs.

By: Where to be Born — Follow up | Atanu Dey on India's Development

Where to be Born — Follow up | Atanu Dey on India's Development — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:38:48 +0000

[...] a previous post, “Where to be Born,” I had written “There’s something toxic about the Indian subcontinent. (Hint: it has [...]

By: Shree

Shree — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:14 +0000

Also why do you keep referring to Lead Cabinet Chaprasi Goonga Sardar as “Dr Manmohan Singh” – this is insulting to all doctorates worldwide…please address him as LCCGS (or as the full form above).

By: Shree

Shree — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:58:47 +0000

“There’s something toxic about the Indian subcontinent. (Hint: it has something to do with a desert religion.) ” – How long do we keep blaming everything/everyone except ourselves? The Hindus (ie we) allow these rats to breed – are you going to blame the rats or blame the poor conditions that allow the rats to exist?

By: Vickram

Vickram — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:14:16 +0000

“There’s something toxic about the Indian subcontinent. (Hint: it has something to do with a desert religion.)”

Hint: There are several countries of primarily desert religion that are much above India.

Question: Could it be that your own religion is the culprit?

Modified Hint: Your own religion preaches subhuman treatment to a very vast section of the population bringing down average quality of life for all.

By: seadog4227

seadog4227 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:10:49 +0000

For what it’s worth, even Tibetan moks are supposedly born in an appropriate family, NOT country.

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:37:41 +0000

Sushoban, Tilopa

As they say, ignorance is bliss. Are you ok with happiness born out of ignorance. Its the same kind of crap argument that people use when they say: look, how happy the kids playing in the slums are, or how happy the poor in the villages are. Well, just wait till they lose their ignorance.

By: Tilopa

Tilopa — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:01:55 +0000

@Sushobhan

Indeed!
The tribals in the forests of Africa are very happy,they don’t worry about future,no taxes,no education. Only singing,marrying and eating.What a life!

But are you ready to live there?

By: Sushobhan

Sushobhan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:00:12 +0000

There is one more index which is completely differing with the “where to be born index”. HPI(Happy planet index). Costa Rica is no 1 in 2012. It was no1 in 2009 as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index. But where to be born says its rank is 30… i.e. if we take this index seriously it concludes we want to be in a country where we’ll be less happy

By: tp

tp — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:01:49 +0000

The random draw dictates that a human is increasingly likely to be born in poverty and squalor. If every soul in the sky were shown a ten-minute vignette of their next-life-to-be on earth, how many would opt in? Sobering thought…

By: Tilopa

Tilopa — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:35:37 +0000

But the vedantic system which you have believe in will disagree with you when you say that birth place is random.

According to karma, it is not random but a consequence of effects of your previous karmas.

India’s descent into chaos under UPA is an effect of the karma of foolishness of Indian voters.

By: allwyn

allwyn — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:15:40 +0000

@tarun

not sure about the rape law but one point is that now the UAE has very decent infrastructure.

By: vivekanand shenoy

vivekanand shenoy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:11:32 +0000

There’s something toxic about the Indian subcontinent. (Hint: it has something to do with a desert religion.) Well said.

By: Tarun Pall

Tarun Pall — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:11:12 +0000

The UAE’s ranking is not surprising at all. Being _born_ in the UAE is fantastic. You get access to a huge range benefits, including free education for life, guaranteed jobs, cushy partnerships with multinational companies wanting to operate in your country (they are required to form a partnership with locals) and the ability to rape immigrant filipino maids and not get arrested, because all laws are biased in favour of local Arabs. It would be a great place to be born in!