Fw: Indians Abroad Vs Indians in India

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>I do not know the author of this article.

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>Indians Abroad  Vs  Indians in India

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>                   ALL INDIANS MUST READ THIS

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>I would like to sum up our performance in the 20th century in one

>sentence. Indians have succeeded in countries ruled by whites, but

>failed in their own.

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>This outcome would have astonished leaders

>of our independence movement. They declared Indians were kept down by

>white rule and could flourish only under self-rule. This seemed

>self-evident The harsh reality today is that Indians are succeeding

>brilliantly in countries ruled by whites, but failing in India. They are

> flourishing in the USA and Britain.

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>But those that stay in India are pulled down by an

>outrageous system that fails to reward merit or talent, fails to allow

>people and businesses to grow, and keeps real power with netas, babus,

>and assorted manipulators. Once Indians go to white-ruled countries,

>they soar and conquer summits once occupied only by whites.

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>RonoDutta has become head of United Airlines, the biggest airline in the

>world. Had he stayed in India, he would have no chance in Indian

>Airlines. Even if the top job there was given to him by some godfather, a

> myriad netas, babus and trade unionists would have ensured that he

>could never run it like United Airlines.

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>Vikram Pundit has become head of Citigroup, which operates Citibank

>one of the largest banks in the world.

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>RanaTalwar has become head of Standard Chartered Bank, one of the biggest

>multinational banks in Britain, while still in his 40s. Had he been in

>India, he would perhaps be a local manager in the State Bank, taking

>orders from babus to give loans to politically favoured clients.

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>Rajat Gupta is head of Mckinsey, the biggest management consultancy firm in

>the world. He now advises the biggest multinationals on how to run their

> business. Had he remained in India he would probably be taking orders

>from some sethji with no qualification save that of being born in a rich

> family.

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>Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the

> world, with steel plants in the US, Kazakhstan, Germany, Mexico,

>Trinidad and Indonesia. India 's socialist

> policies reserved the domestic steel industry for the public sector. So

> Lakhsmi Mittal went to Indonesia to run his family's first steel plant

>there. Once freed from the shackles of India, he conquered the world.

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>Subhash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king, one of the few to

>beat Rupert Murdoch. He could never have risen had he been limited to

>India, which decreed a TV monopoly for Doordarshan. But technology came

>to his aid: satellite TV made it possible for him to target India from

>Hong Kong. Once he escaped Indian rules and soil, he soared.

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>Youmay not have heard of 48-year old Gururaj Deshpande. His communications

>company, Sycamore, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $

>30 billion, making him perhaps one of the richest Indians in the world.

>Had he remained in India, he would probably be a babu in the Department

>of Telecommunications.

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>Arun Netravali has become president ofBell Labs, one of the biggest

> research and development centres in the world with 30,000 inventions

>and several Nobel Prizes to its credit. Had he been in India, he would

>probably be struggling in the middle cadre of Indian Telephone

>Industries. Silicon Valley alone contains over 100,000 Indian

>millionaires.

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>Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi has become since 2006 the CEO Of PepsiCo

>Inc., a Fortune 500 company.

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>Sabeer Bhatia invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $ 400 million.

>Victor Menezes is number two in Citibank. Shailesh Mehta is CEO of

>Providian, a top US financial services company. Also at or near the top

>are Rakesh Gangwal of US Air, Jamshd Wadia of Arthur Andersen, and Aman

>Mehta of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.

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>In Washington DC, theIndian CEO High Tech Council has no less than 200 members,

all high

>tech-chiefs. While Indians have soared, India has stagnated. At

>independence India was the most advanced of all colonies, with the best

>prospects.

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>Today with a GNP per head of $370, it occupies a lowly 177th position

>among 209 countries of the world. But poverty is by no means the only

>or main problem. India ranks near the bottom in

> the UNDP's Human Development Index, but high up in Transparency

>International's Corruption Index.

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>The neta-babu raj brought in by socialist policies is only one reason for

>India 's failure. The more sordid reason is the rule-based society we

>inherited from the British Raj is today in tatters. Instead money,muscle

> and influence matter most.

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>At independence we were justly proudof our politicians.

>Today we regard them as scoundrels and criminals.

>They have created a jungle of laws in the holy name of socialism, and

>used these to line their pockets and create patronage networks. No

>influential crook suffers. The Mafia flourish unhindered because they

>have political links.

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>The sons of police officers believe they

>have a licence to rape and kill (ask the Mattoo family).Talent cannot

>take you far amidst such rank misgovernance. We are reverting to our

>ancient feudal system where no rules applied to the powerful. The

>British Raj brought in abstract concepts of justice for all, equality before

the law. These

>were maintained in the early years of independence. But sixty years

>later, citizens wail that India is a lawless land where no rules are

>obeyed.

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>I have heard of an IAS probationer at the Mussorie

>training academy pointing out that in India before the British came,

>making money and distributing favours to relatives was not considered a

>perversion of power, it was the very rationale of power.  A feudal

>official had a duty to enrich his family and caste.

>Then the British came and imposed a new ethical code on officials. But, he

>asked, why should we continue to choose British customs over desi ones

>now that we are independent?

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>Thelack of transparent rules, properly enforced, is a major reason why

>talented Indians cannot rise in India. A second reason is the neta-babu

>raj, which remains intact despite supposed liberalisation. But once

>talented Indians go to rule-based societies in the west, they take off.

>In those societies all people play by the same rules, all have freedom

>to innovate without being strangled by regulations.

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>This, then, is why Indians succeed in countries ruled by whites, and

>fail in their own.

>It is the saddest story of the century...............

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