Imagining India - The Idea of a Renewed Nation

[MrRougeasassin]

@dilipjoym that's why he said.. "IF THE PEOPLE LEARN AND CONTRIBUTE" not just every person...

[dilipjoym]

I don't consider the huge population of India as a human capital since a large fraction of Indians are still illiterate and extremely poor (:

[juliathegreat]

I understand India being the young generation of future and all but saying that young is everything while other already-developed nations are all aging, sounds rather too much. After all, are they not copying the models of the mature nations? Saying that we are going to get the knowledge from you, and we will kick your butt, sounds rather uncool. Respect goes both ways. Don`t think grad- students are that immature.

[vjt9]

@juliathegreat what he means by "already-developed nations are all aging" is concept of 'Demographic Dividend' and 'Low Dependacy Ratio', you obviously didn't understand him.

" After all, are they not copying the models of the mature nations?"

you need to research the origin of technologies, just choose a field like, mathematics, astro-physics, medicine etc and spend 5 minutes researching it.

you should check (..just for fun) if ur pc runs on an ADM or an INTEL chip ..then research the company.

[vjt9]

@juliathegreat he never implies for one moment that "grad-students are immature" ..but i think it immature of You to try and spread hatred over a speech that has almost Nothing to do with your country!

[aryanc77]

The more the Govt focuses on the poor the more will industry move to investing into and catering to the villages and smaller towns where 65% of the country lives .. stimulating demand from grass root level and not easily visible growth to industry which only keeps the cities buzzing with market speculators that only make markets volatile.... we need inclusive growth ...the economic disparity between cities and villages is staggering .....

[aryanc77]

Its very nice to count chickens before they are hatched , but we needs more participation in political and governance issues by our citizens , we think democracy is a spectator game and none of us participate,then there is the issue of trmendous economic disparity between backward thinking states ,which is resulting in mass migration to cities at a rate that cities can't cope and then the cities look like one big slum . People will always migrate to where hope for a better life lies.

[balumuthu]

Nice to hear the thoughts of one who has made a substantial impact on India's economy and job market as an IT business magnate. Of course his services to the global market which looks to his company are greatly benefitted as well.

[MarjorieBakre]

None of the successive govts. has considered population control, overriding religious objections (especially by the Muslim popln.and clergy who want to adhere to Sharia tenets, thus obstructing any governmental controls). The politial parties without exception have found it useful to play up the divisive cards of religious and casteist(for Hindu, Xian and Muslim, Sikh populns.) cards in their power game. Given these, mere highlighting of youth energies (demographic devidends)may not be right.

[MarjorieBakre]

(Contd.2) But for achieving that modifcn. the prevailing belief in uniform, globally uniformity in this respect will be a big hurdle. India is not fully for fullfledged materialistic way of life in which family values, for ex., are kept pushed down by mere economic prosperity.

[MarjorieBakre]

The fundamental issue is for the overwhelming proportion of India's population and the people's representatives to be reconciled with rights and duties in a democracy as it is understood and practised. Maybe some modification of dmocratic practices is called for so that what is referred to as Indian democracy is just a fictitious or farcical system in which the people's representatives function as a power unto themselves.

[NPegasus]

Your point of India's population as a challenge is well known. But universal education andawareness is the best contraceptive that really works in the long term.

[alokgalt]

I liked the fact that he didnt fake a american accent.

[lsjtifo]

More precisely, his accent is much like that of the clearer thinking and speaking white American professors, and not just those who have trained themselves in speaking with an accent at the expense of clarity from the listener's viewpoint especially when the audience comprises a heterogeneous group of people from several countries as in American universities.

[balumuthu]

Ideas/ thoughts matter. Accent hardly matters to the general listener who wants the words to be clearly spoken.

[Skorz3ny]

DMK first non congress government in south ? .... not correct.