The Lost Opportunity!

1990’s was a pretty bad situation for Russia.It was on the verge of civil war.However the patience shown by the Russians was fabulous.Still everything worked,traffic lights,metro,sanitation and hospitals on meager resources.

 

This was also the time when most Indian businessmen were checking out the Russian market.There were no western brands on the Russian market and our marwari business men and shopkeepers introduced brands like Nescafe,colgate and thousands of Indian Tea brands unheard even in India.All this was possible because of India being very close to the Russian heart because of Nehru,Raj kapoor,Nargis and the voice of Mukesh chand mathur.The natives liked many things India including the Tea which they fondly called “Chai”.I had made many Russian friends by offering them quality tea like Tata taj mahal tea.

 

Sadly,most of the low variety of Indian businessmen preferred to make fool out of simple Russian public.One of my Russi friend who was distributor for a tea brand from India,brought to me a sample from a tea called “Elephant” imported from India.It was the most low quality stuff that I ever smelled and drank.Later after careful lab test we came to understand that the Indian Marwari exporter in order to earn quick bucks had sent the used and dried tea leaves packed in a not so good packing.I was embarrassed.News travels fast in Russia and same was the case with many Russian tea importers.Their confidence in Indian tea was dwindling like a small boat on arctic sea.Not only tea but even toothpaste and Nescafe coffee was of low quality from India,all work of greedy operate by night Indian shopkeepers.However Colgate global office and Nescafe Switzerland jumped in to save honour and Indian coffee was banned in Russia for a while.

Now most Russians who were become wealthier started shopping elsewhere in turkey,UK,Pakistan and Bangladesh for clothes,Rice etc.Finally at the end of 1994 no one wanted any Indian stuff in Russian market and any Indian product was considered total garbage.Now western companies had started opening their offices in Moscow and St.Peters burg.gone were the days of Indian monopoly.Needless to say the westerners were very particular about their image and brands.Russians drifted towards better coffee brands like Merrild,Java,Nescafe(Switzerland) etc.Even tea was being imported from Britain (off course Indian grown).Brands like Tetley,English breakfast,pickwick etc captured the Russian market.

India could have captured the Russian market for quality Indian brands but that opportunity is lost for a while.I do wonder why our tata’s have to buy Tetley and Rovers-jaguar?that’s because no Indian company were ever able to develop a globally recognized brand.Even small nations like Japan,Korea .France and even Turkey have them.The only possible answer is that we lack the discipline and vision.The Indian business mentality so far was that if you invest $100 today you should be able to take out $200 in a month.Meanwhile a westerner would think about sustainability of his product for next 10 years in a given market.

Short sightedness of the Indian government at that time added to the misery of Indian image.India has lost its opportunity of cornering a huge market which was their’s for the asking but due to vision less Indian mind we have lost something big.

Nehru’s vision for India!

The greek civilization gave us something to rejoice every four years. However the games have been in doldrums since Hitler fist used the Munich Olympics as his Nazi Propoganda  platform.The world has moved on since than!

Tibet was annexed when China attacked India in 1962.Nehru,the than prime minister of India was shocked as he has always maintained very friendly relations with China and even went an extra mile to propogate the goodness of China in front of the whole World.  Backstabbing by China in 1962 he suffered a heart attack and died thus creating a leadership vaccum  in India which even deepened further when the next Indian prime minister died under mysterious circumstances in Tashkent-USSR.

After that none could fill up the leadership vaccum.Indira Gandhi did try her best but was surrounded by very corrupt Punjabi immigrants from Pakistan who were hell bent on creating wealth for themselves. R.K.Dhawan her secretary was wealthy beyond his means and so were the others.The little vision which Indra might have had evaporated in the company of these corrupted  beaurocrats.

Thus started a trend which was and still is impossible to reverse.The vision which was created and maintained by Mahatama Gandhi,Nehru,Bose and Patel was thrown away in Indras regime.There was a lot of debate as why Nehru went on a path to socialism.He was critised by Indian and western intellectual and businessmen like Tata’s for following socialism in India.They wanted capitalism similar to in United States.On the other hand Pakistan which was created by scheming British went on to the path of capitalism and became a great partner of united States.

Come 2008 and we can clearly see the world thru a unbiased prism. Nehru was right when he took India for a path to socialism. India was used as a colony by the British for sourcing cheap labour,raw material and precious things.India was their base for growing sugar,marijuana etc.Opium was grown in Bengal and was exported to China and with that money East India company grew like wild fire.Bombay was created with that money.All this time India was not developed further as British avoided doing it!

When India finally got independence from Britain it has missed on the industrial revolution in Europe and USSR.Taking help from USSR nehry developed steel plants,hydroelectric dams and other essential educational infrastructure.It was the need of the times.Railways was developed using the soviet model and became a backbone of Indian industry and life.Agriculture was given a priority.Farmers benefited enormously and when Indira’s time came ,India was finally self reliant in almost every walk of life except heavy machinery and technology.

IIT’s and AIIMS churned out the best engineers and doctors even by western standards. All this was result of a vision.

Today whatever skills and infrastructure India enjoys was and still is contributed by a vision from that era.

Yes India has had its big problems too.Being self  reliant after being slaves for almost 600 years was a big achievement!Look at Pakistan who sided with United States,it’s a pariah state.They don’t have basic facilities like education and clean drinking water!

However wild capitalism adopted by India during Rao’s tenure is not doing India any good.Crime has risen 1000%.

No sufficient electricity ,water and other infrastructure even after privitising everything.Similiary Britain has lost all its manufacturing sector after Margret Thatcher went on a privatizing drive. We in India lack vision and I mean the correct vision! We want to ape united states without realizing that India is very different.Our farmers are committing suicides in thousands and hence the price rise which will bring an end to self reliance that we have enjoyed. We prefer to keep all our eggs in one basket eg:United states.If it goes we go too!

Global Food Crisis!

A report on the BBC informed about the global food crisis!

      “The hunger of the hungry is not appeased; by mere words, hunger is not relieved.”-Guru Granth Sahib

 

Well I was not shocked as it was only obvious that after so much mismanagement and following the wrong policies both in terms of political and environmental this was bound to happen and even may get worse!

My being an optimist has nothing to do with it though!

It was indeed shocking to see people in Zimbabwe,Zambiaand east Asia voicing their pessimism.In my native India prices have risen almost 80% in last three years making life even more difficult for the rural as well as urban populace.In India in last few years nearly 200000 farmers have committed suicide.Many will follow!

I blame globalization for it. Wealthy have become more wealthy and poor more poorer.Yes,some middle class have benefited,mainly the IT and BPO folks in their early 20’s.

The Global food crisis is just a result of world’s obsession with capitalism.After the breakup and humiliation of USSR,the arrogant american’s took on themselves to teach democracy and capitalism to the World.However for their own selfish means they did support dictatorship in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.It is this hypocracy which has brought rest of the World upside down. Confused? Well don’t worry I am getting to the point!

United states subsidises its farmers to the tune of 80%.Now these American farmers export their produce at half of the cost incurred by a poor farmer in Africa or Asia.Naturaly the African farmer has to abandon his farming as no one will buy his produce which is more expensive than the imported American grains.Hence he has no option but to find an alternative.He either becomes a criminal or commits suicide.This is very evident from what’s happening in certain african countries.After all everyone wants to eat to live.African and asian governments don’t have the funds or inclination to subsidise their own farmers.Its a win win situation for uncle sam.

Come climate change!whatever minimum has been produced in these poor countries is very much dependent on climate.With rising temperatures water becomes scarce and many crops die a natural death.In India it was the obsession with capitalism which is eating the country from inside.Whatever was done in last 50 yrs to enhance self sufficiency in food has been reversed by this process.Rural folks are left out of progress.Corruption is rising at an alarming rate.In India we follow American capitalism blindly without realizing the consequence.Most of our Industry people are educated in USA and have no idea about Indian sensibilities.They have been brainwashed in their MBA classes in Stanford or London business schools.

The stock exchange busted making many common folks paupers.Many lost their life savings.International banks are going bust!Recently 10000 folks were fired out of their jobs in America.As the American system is down for many coming years many jobs will go in India and other parts of the globe.Countries who have put all their eggs in one basket eg:USA will go for spin.

Mr.Bush and his deputies have also played their part in taking the world one step nearer to disaster.Cold war has already started again between Russia and America and this time America is the clear devil.They are in soup in Iraq,Iran,Afghanistan,Georgia and rest of the World.Bushism has created a dangerous world.Uk was their partner in this crime.Is Afghanistan any better today?Is Iraq any better today?NO!

I insist on being a optimist!Lets hope Obama can bring the changes required in american policies because Hillary is just a power monger and she did support Bush during the Iraq initiative.

Politics drags Olympic movement.

Beijing Olympics are nearing fast.There is indeed a lot of hoopla about Tibet and the security of the delegates during the Olympics.Even the World leaders so far have not conformed their presence on the occasion of the opening ceremony in Beijing.Sarkozy the french president has gone so far as to say that he might even deny the participation of French team.

As far as I know,the terrorist’s will never dare to attack China or Russia in the future.I have seen the response that the Russian alpha commandos gave during the theatre siege by Chechen militants.China is no different.They know how to deal with the trouble makers.Though Tibet’s case might be little different.Dalai Lama has clearly stated that there should be no violence!

Olympics is a festival and it belongs to the world and taking political mileage out of it is highly unethical.Politicians who are very unpopular in their own countries will resort to these tactics.Prestigious western TV channels have brainwashed the western hemisphere about the Tibet-Olympics issue.Do they think that by sabotaging Olympics they can liberate Tibet? Vice verse,they will make this noble cause even worse.I really feel sorry for Tibetans and Dalai Lama.

Imagine the hard work any sportsmen has to do before qualifying for Olympics.At least four years of sweat and endurance is involved.Olympics is a tradition coming down from Greece.Time to time countries like US have tried to make a political issue out of it.Olympics is a month long sports festival where sports is celebrated.Sportsmen from different countries live together,eat together and make friends.

Talking of China,they have put in so much effort by building stadiums, Olympics village,beefing up security,training of language interpreters.A common Chinese gets the impression that whatever we do is bad.This way we are alienating nations and not bringing them together!

 

Charles darwin and uncle Sam!

Charles Darwin the biologist who gave the theory “survival of the fittest” (sof) was not a man of great intelligence.Based on this theory the founders of “capitalism” the subjects of Uncle sam based their nations ideology!World went ga-ga over it!After all uncle SAM was one of the winners of World war-2!</span>

Nobody even cared to research the subject any further.After all the former bandits from American west were benefitting from it!Educated immigrants from Europe were still busy finding a living for themselves.Population was less and less pressure on resources,so Uncle Sam got by fine!So far so good!It went on and on with its mantra of capitalism and Democracy unrelented without realising that the world cultures were very different.How are few cowboys from american hinterland know about it!They were happy with their loot!

Darwin observed the theory when he was observing the wild animal in jungles and grasslands of Africa. Men has evolved over million of years and has learnt to use its mind for speech,action and reactions.Animals have not evolved as homo sapiens have!Will it be fair to keep them in one group and propogate a theory.

American goons made it a practise to hire and fire their employees at will without realising the impact it has on the life of an individual.the goons find comfort from the urvival theory to satiate their conscience.The poor employee finds it hard to pay his bills and is looked upon as  a looser by his own wife and children meanwhile the goons enjoy themselves on their million dollar luxury boats!Is this survival of the fittest!

Uncle Sam’s theory has gone bust lately.Nobody believes in white house any more.Its more a place where you can get blowjobs from interns and hollywood stars.Here we are talking about ethics.

Uncle Sam hired Saddam Hussain to counter Iran and later fired him.It also hired others like Osama bin Laden and has spent billions in a quest to fire him even at the cost of loosing thousand of its own soldiers.Problem is Uncle Sam cannot put its blame on USSR so Iran and Iraq are irs sacrificial lamb.This one is for economics!huh!

Capitalism has failed!The quest goes on to find a system based more on spirituality and ethics.A famous British scholar observed that we have seen capitalism in the absence of socialism but never vice verse!

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John Mccain gaining a lot!

Obama  and Clinton fight over election seems to have intensified.Both want to outdo each other and rightly so!The big question in people’s mind is can america have a black president?Race has never been an issue in the white house campaigns but deep within white community,it seems there is this fear of loosing white supremecy.A secret whisper campaign might be going on of what we know in the cowbelt which is the American farmers paradise.

In this cowbelt folks have their own rules and regulations.They go to church regularly and on their meetings after the sunday mass,they do discuss this topic in passionate tones.Dont forget these were the folks who let Bush be in power for the second term even after the debacle of the first term!On the other hand Mccain can be silently gaining a lot of support from within this community.We can also count of folks who are sick of Obama-Clinton verbal duet which is going on and on for last 3 months!

Coming to Obama,he has support from urban whites and hispanics.Even the blacl community cannot support him whole heartedly.Within the black community there is this complex that only white people can bring prosperity.After talking to many blacks,I realised that they trust the White administrators than the blacks.No matter what they say on the front but inside they feel unsecure with a white president.

Now when it comes to choosing between a women or men president,men seems to be the clear winner.Though the women wholeheartedly support Hillary clinton,still the doubt in their mind that she is very ambitius and she did support Iraq war!Other action of hers that may take them away from Hillary is what happened with her comments about serbia.If she could lie about it just so she can get ahead,what will she do next!

in mu opinion Mccain seems to be the clear winner from all this fallout.Republican have been very strategic in planning everything.Though Mccain is a lackluster president hopefull,he will definately gain from the Obama-Clinton fallout!

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