@DuttShekhar Amartya Sen ne bilkul sahi kaha tha India managed to get it completely backwards over regulating where it should have been open, and under funding where it should have been highly active.
@suspended_aadmi@MihirkJha Personal bank account ka direct nahi, indirectly bahut lena dena hai crores of people ke deposits banks ke through loans aur govt securities mein flow hote hai world Bank is just one source public investment citizens ki savings se completely disconnected nahi hota.
@suspended_aadmi@MihirkJha Stop this Winklevoss twins and Zuckerbag story, investment ke lia paisa lana padta hai economy . Sirf 35% logo ke pass bank account tha.
INDIA 🇮🇳 NEEDS A MASSIVE CIVIC MOVEMENT.
Even as the largest growing major economy, India continues to be one of the filthiest nations with corrupt, non-functional municipalities, terrible urban infrastructure, shockingly bad civic and traffic sense, and no punishment for treating the country like a dump yard, either for officials or citizens.
Unless civic governance and civic sense is fixed, I’m afraid we will remain the Third World.
the satyaniketan building collapse makes me wonder if it's really worth leaving our faraway homes, coming to Delhi, living in these shithole PGs, paying exorbitant rent with no value for life. my current self is at war with my 14-year-old self who dreamt of coming to this city
@harshmadhusudan@kushal_mehra I think a lot of this comes from seeing India through the lens of the ruling party. Acts like this force one to question the legitimacy of campaigns like “school thik karo,” as they show that the motivation was never really to fix India, but to settle political scores.
When Dr Manmohan Singh became PM, I had just turned 18. Over ten years, I remember opposing the government on many, many issues but I never once mocked the country’s growth rate, the basic electoral legitimacy, the core economic data etc. We were in fact angry when anyone attacked Dr Singh as India’s PM qua PM. I am even today pissed when some justify Indira or Rajiv’s murders, or indeed Mahatma Gandhi’s.
This mocking of India itself has nothing to do with an age or some cohort. It is just deeply regrettable behaviour by a few people. The single most important quality in an individual is the genuine sense of gratitude. To the mother and motherland, first amongst others. There are so many urban flooding videos from China or America, including their great cities in recent years.
But nobody comes out and links it to - or mocks - the country’s growth rates or basic claims. I see this as internal coherence nation building project as a work in progress, and that is the empathetic way to understand such behaviour. The less empathetic? I would rather not type that.