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December 07, 2004
"Indians What We Achieved" A Follow Up
Ever since I wrote about the achievements by the Indians and the progress made by us, there were lots of rebuttals and questioning of the data published in the blog Indians What We Achieved Just to throw some more clarity on those issues... There was a mention that the I have overlooked the plight of Indians in the Gulf who are treated like third world citizens (of course, India is stil considered to be a third world country by many of the westerners) and the number of Indians in the Gulf are quite high in comparison to the numbers in the US and other western countries.
Though, frankly, I don't have any idea about the numbers either in Gulf or in the US, I will certainly do a research on that and write on it in the days to come.
And there was a rebuttal by Manoj (I would say, a very detailed one; nice work man) in his blog Pride or Vanity regarding the authenticity of the data... I respect his sentiments on this and would certainly concur with his views that we should not be living in the world of fallacies... But these data have been taken from the official website of the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of India... Though I cannot vouch for the data put in the website by the Ministry, I would presume that these should be authentic data otherwise they would not be putting that in an official website... My only purpose of putting those details in the blog was to make people realise that we have achieved many things for which we need to be proud of. It's very sad that many people whom I interact with, mind you I am talking only about Indians, not foreigners, crib thoroughly about the country, the attitude of the people, the infrastructure, the bureaucracy and what not...
It's a fact that we are a developing country (I think it's a better phrase than under developed country) and I am nobody to deny that fact…. But we Indians should move beyond all this and try to help the county to move forward to become a developed country in true sense in the years to come... What purpose is it going to serve by just cribbing about the state of affairs of the country.....
At this point I am only reminded of John F Kennedy's words "Don"t ask what the country has done to you, ask what you have done to the country"
We can all contribute to the success story of the country by doing something which will help achieve those goals and not just crib; cribbing will take us nowhere... Don't think that I am some freak social worker who runs a NGO for the upliftment of the society... I am an ordinary Indian just like you and would love to see India move forward in all her endeavours...
I have always been an optimist and will always be that way....
Posted by Vasanth at December 7, 2004 09:34 PM
Comments
OHH…
That’s absolutely correct…. Concrete action is what the need of the hour which I think is happening. Any case thanks for your comments and keep your
comments flowing all the time...
Posted by: Vasanth at December 8, 2004 01:45 PM
Thanks
for not taking my comments the wrong way. You rightly said you cannot vouch for the data put up in a ministry's website. But then, how many websites carry
accurate information?
My profs, especially advertising and marketing, here frequently use urban legends as true stories to support their stories.
As you mentioned in my blog, you were fortunate enough to not receive such emails clogging your inbox. These were sent mostly by people who went to the US
to study and return, but stayed there. While here, they were constantly deriding anything Indian but once after they went there, they have become 'born again
Indians'. When coming here for vacations, they act like they cannot survive (under the same conditions, if not better than, when they left)
Just like you (fellow Indian, fellow Chennaivasi)I want India to be a superpower. Emails like these just make us feel that 'India is really superior
and these whiteys are jealous of us' and the 'moral superiority' we have and become content with it. What we need is not emails like these but concrete
action.
Posted by: Lumbergh-in-training at December 7, 2004 11:11 PM