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Digital Desis or Giant Managers?

Muqtedar Khan January 19, 2006

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#315 Posted by scorp_afghan on December 26, 2007 11:30:06 am
Plus in every article I see people comparing India and Pakistan. And people fighting over it.

There's no comparison. India is huge
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#314 Posted by scorp_afghan on December 26, 2007 11:27:13 am
See these are the results of quality education system.

Anyway, lot of other 3rd world countries can learn a lot from India.
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#313 Posted by MantoLives on February 10, 2006 2:27:20 am
Kabuli-

I must conclude that your hopes about India are over-inflated... and your dismissal of Pakistan is wrong.

In any event... the author of this article is not a Pakistani...
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#312 Posted by discoverer on January 31, 2006 7:50:03 am
okay here it is,

Question: How come india`s economy is booming when there`s is so much hunger and misery on streets?

Answer; black money blacke money as we all know it is the fuel of curruption, indian economy greatly relies on black money for it growth

http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w13/msg00086.htm
http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/04-11/indian-dreaming-india.html

many GOOD indians around the world oppeses their governments

http://www.freedomindia.com/01.html

Question: why do foreign companies seeks india for investments

Answer: India is a poor country, people are so hungry and pissed of that they are ready to do n e thing in order to get jobs, Western comapnies are smart, they took this for granted and pay less to indian worker compare to there western counterpart and hence every thing is done on a cheap scale.

Another reasonbeing that india is the capital of black money, many foreigner come to india to convert their black money in to white money as in india you have NO record o your investments and every thing is legel.
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#311 Posted by rsridhar on January 31, 2006 4:53:53 am
re: a coup of sorts at Davos
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060130_4381_db032.htm
When u see CEO of Dell doing a ``namaste`` and donning a red Tilak on his forehead, u know India has arrived!
(Selling India Inc. at Davos
The country`s top ministers and policymakers made many lucrative contacts among the foriegn power brokers on hand at the global economic conference


At Davos on Thursday night, the high and mighty had a choice of events: a speech by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan or the popular annual jazz dinner. Not bad. But about 700 participants at this year`s World Economic Forum gabfest opted for another venue at the Central Sporthotel in Davos Platz. The event? India`s Republic Day celebration cocktail. Advertisement

There they were, the important and influential from former U.S. Presidential candidate John Kerry to PC master Michael Dell to the chief executives of Citicorp (C ) and UBS (UBS ). Panitchpakdi Supachai, the former World Trade Organization chief, was amazed. ``Just five years ago, the India reception attracted 50, maybe 60 people. But look at it now! India is doing so well now, it doesn`t need our help any more.``

DISCO TO BREAKFAST. Indeed, India has been helping itself quite effectively at Davos this year. Sessions on the country were filled to overflowing, from the ``Emergence of India`` and ``New Energy for India`s Reforms`` to the session on India`s and China`s oil and gas needs and the discussion on Indo-U.S. relations. So were the social events, like the Republic Day celebration and the disco night at the Copacabana club on Jan. 27, where 300 lingered until 4 a.m. to hear Indian DJ Aqueel play Hindi pop.

The last day of the conference began with a packed breakfast at the Hotel Belvedere where India`s top ministers and bureaucrats talked about the importance of foreign direct investment and ended with a rocking Bollywood gala soiree.


That`s only the official Davos program. More important was what happened on the sidelines. In a shrewd move to build bilateral ties with countries that matter to India, like Japan, the U.S., and Brazil, India`s ministers went to work as salesmen, meeting top businessmen and officials and extracting promises of investment, particularly in infrastructure -- the first time Indians have focused on what investors regard as the biggest hurdle to foreigners coming to India.

``STORY OF THE PAST.`` Commerce Minister Kamal Nath met with his American trade counterparts like Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and U.S. Trade Represntative Rob Portman. Nath`s meeting with Michael Dell resulted in a coup: In the next two months, Dell will begin building a large PC manufacturing facility in India -- the country`s first by a multinational. Nath`s job, he says, is to explain to the world about the ``10 paradigm shifts taking place simultaneously in India. Outsourcing is a story of the past. We now want people to see India as a manufacturing base, as the youngest nation with fortunate future demographics.``

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram scored a key success by luring Japanese business to India -- a commercial alliance of great importance to Tokyo, because of Japan`s growing fears and suspicion of China. On Jan. 26, Chidambaram hosted eight Japanese businessmen, including the chairmen of Toshiba, Nomura Securities, and Sumitomo. Also present was the chief of Japan`s external trade organization and a young member of the Japanese parliament.

The result? A promise by Japanese companies to look anew at India`s power sector and a commitment to conduct a study on investing in the new dedicated rail-freight corridor connecting Bombay, Delhi, and Calcutta. ``We will build our infrastructure with Japanese help,`` said Chidambaram.

VISIBILITY AND ALLURE. Other officials were hard at work, too. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the senior-most policymaker in India`s government, wined and dined informally with policymakers and bankers, like the head of JP Morgan Chase (JPM ), while Ministers Oomen Chandy of Kerala and Vasudra Raje of Rajasthan met with investors from the technology, tourism, and education sectors.

Indian businessmen, of course, have been using Davos to network with their peers and customers for years. This year, however, India`s visibility has given them more allure. Chief executives like Yogi Deveshwar of agro conglomerate ITC, Nandan Nilekani of Infosys (INFY ), and Ajay Piramal of pharma major Nicholas Piramal slept less than four hours a night, packing in over a dozen side meetings along with their obligatory session appearances at the conference. If the payoff comes in a burst of foreign investment, it will be well worth the sleep deprivation.)
Sridhar
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#310 Posted by rsridhar on January 31, 2006 4:35:54 am
re:#309 by arjun_m
(Pakis aren`t far behind)
Ha, ha.
So it seems.
Sridhar
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#309 Posted by arjun_m on January 30, 2006 7:24:33 pm
#308 by rsridhar on January 30, 2006 6:40pm PT

Pakis aren`t far behind
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#308 Posted by rsridhar on January 30, 2006 6:40:36 pm
re: Empire strikes back!
It is payback time. India, a colony, is playing a different tune today.
At least so it seems from this article
(Saroj Poddar, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, said: ``The UK is one country where Indian investment exceeds the UK’s in India.``

Indian companies invested $1 billion (£566 million) in new British developments, or ``greenfield`` projects, in the year to March 31, 2005, with ``slightly less going the other way``, Mr Poddar said.

Indian companies have continued the trend this year as Mahindra & Mahindra, the Indian utility vehicle maker, bought Stokes Forgings, a components manufacturer with factories in Dudley and Walsall, in the West Midlands.)

India Inc creates more jobs for foreigners
Thus dispelling the earlier notion that India is taking away jobs.
Sridhar
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#307 Posted by delhiwala on January 30, 2006 2:17:46 pm
Well said, I am going to throw away my 5 page document that I was writing on the same subject as yours is better than mine.

Indians are making dent in Management and it is becoming harder and harder to overcome this global managment parity. Still there are some exceptions such as Ajay Singh of Citi(3rd in line), TDwaterhouse`s COO, Amex`s CIO, MS co-founder etc.

what was your school`s name is Naampalli?
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#306 Posted by arjun_m on January 30, 2006 7:41:44 am
Hello inbred retard...Dell, based in Austin(your home town), hiring in India..and not Pakiland..

Dell to Hire 5,000 People in India

By RAJESH MAHAPATRA
The Associated Press
Monday, January 30, 2006; 6:00 AM

NEW DELHI -- Computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday it planned to add 5,000 jobs in India over the next two years, bringing its work force in the country to 15,000.

Dell is also looking to set up a manufacturing center in India, a move that could help boost the sale of Dell computers here, President and CEO Kevin Rollins told reporters after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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#305 Posted by rsridhar on January 30, 2006 6:54:28 am
re: India versus China
Which is better: the messy Indian democracy or the Chinese model? asks the Philadelphia Enquirer
http://www.sulekha.com/news/nhc.aspx?cid=443226
(India`s messy democracy or China`s model of economics?
By Trudy RubinDAVOS, Switzerland -
You could almost hear the tectonic plates shifting at this year`s World Economic Forum, where the giants of capitalism and their political leaders gather every year to discuss the state of the world.
This year`s spotlight wasn`t on the American economy. Nor was the focus on Europe. The stars of Davos 2006 were the world`s new economic giants, India and China, with more than two billion people between them.
A raft of panels discussed the emergence of China and India. But a constant subtext of the discussions was one of the most fascinating questions to emerge from this year`s forum: Is China`s top-down model of economic development better for business? Or can India`s messy democracy provide an alternative model for growth?
So far, China is growing faster than India, attracts 10 times the foreign direct investment, and has proved far more successful at building infrastructure to get goods to market. This month, China became the world`s fourth-largest economy, passing Britain. But the confidence of young, dynamic Indian high-tech whiz kids is infections.
At a glitzy cocktail party at the posh Belvedere Hotel, one of several thrown by Indian firms this week, elegant saris could be seen among the business suits, the spicy canapés were garnished with mint and yogurt, and the logo of the host firm, an Indian high-tech leader named Infosys Technologies Ltd., proclaimed: ``Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values.``
Around 150 Indian businessmen, journalists, government ministers, and top state officials swept into Davos, along with a massive promotion campaign on the Web and on posters, proclaiming: ``India - the world`s fastest growing market democracy.``
Only a decade ago, India retained a socialist mind-set, and businessman was a dirty word. Economic reforms got going only in 1991 and didn`t take off until the last few years. Even today, the tens of millions who staff India`s high-tech industries and outsourcing firms live only hours away from impoverished villagers. India still suffers from widespread illiteracy, bad roads, and an infuriating bureaucracy.
But the Indian attitude toward entrepreneurship has changed (perhaps in part because of the success of neighbor China`s capitalist model). ``Twenty years ago,`` says Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, ``everyone asked me to get them a job in the public sector. Now, they want me to get them a job in Infosys.``
And India`s democratic openness and rule of law have encouraged a wave of technological innovation that China still lacks. ``There is a degree of freedom that creates aspirations,`` says Anand Mahindra. This Harvard M.B.A. returned home and now is vice chairman of a family firm, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., that produces automobiles and farm equipment, among other items. Indian democracy means that no one censors Google, and the country is way ahead of China in the information-technology sector. Independent thinking also produces better managers.
Although it receives fewer foreign and investment funds, India uses the capital more productively, I was told by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Huang Yasheng at Davos. Maybe that productivity comes from the fact that managers and local officials aren`t protected from scrutiny the way they often are in China. India`s democracy provides a check on corrupt government officials.

``Previously, people argued that China did well economically and India politically,`` says Huang. ``But I argue that there are economic advantages of having good governance. It will help India overcome caste and lack of basic education of the workforce.``
And democracy keeps voter pressure on government officials to eliminate barriers that keep Indians from making further economic progress. Infosys president Nandan Nilekani says the Indian public will press officials to eliminate the bureaucratic barriers that block small entrepreneurs and that keep their children from getting an education.
``There is no choice,`` Nilekani says. ``Democracy will ensure that the restrictions to job creation are lowered. No one can stop this.``
Maybe it`s the crush of visible talent at the Infosys party that makes me want to believe democratic India can do as well as China. The issue really isn`t which model is better. Rather, one hopes that India can prove that messy democracies are no obstacle to creating prosperity in a developing country. When you talk to Indian entrepreneurs at Davos, this is easy to believe.)
Sridhar
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#304 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 30, 2006 1:04:44 am
Re: # 303
As predicted India defeated by 7 runs by home team. Indian management total failure. Test is won almost as shoeb Akhtar reaching 157KM/HR. Major indian batsman can not face Express just throw and run away. Sad only indian bowlers have to bad.
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#303 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 29, 2006 6:11:37 pm
No reference:
It looks pindi express will indian team out of misery . Indian team has no chance again management failure of Indian captain.
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#302 Posted by Behram1 on January 28, 2006 9:46:58 pm

Ref: #301 by rsridhar on January 28, 2006 7:16pm PT

O! Shut Up, with the nonsense paid propaganda material bought by the Indian Lobby. Go read the latest edition of Business Week, where it clearly states how writers are bought to write propaganda material.

Remember Tom Friedman, the incessant promoter of India`s Banged Galore economy.

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#301 Posted by rsridhar on January 28, 2006 7:16:34 pm
re: India shines at Davos meet
India, the darling at Davos, seeks investments says this NY times article.
Excerpts:
(India was the darling of the World Economic Forum this year as it sought new investment. In the hot seat at Saturday`s breakfast were key Indian policymakers, who came to the annual gathering with the country`s top business executives for the first time to promote the nation`s rising economic star.

India`s booming economy is growing at about 7 percent annually, and Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told a VIP audience of the world`s business leaders that the government was aiming for growth of 8 percent to 10 percent.

Yogesh Deveshwar, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry and chairman of ITC Ltd., said economic reforms have unshackled ``Indian entrepreneurship`` and the country is embarking on an effort to develop the rural areas where three-quarters of its 1 billion people live.)
Sridhar

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#300 Posted by Behram1 on January 28, 2006 7:08:05 pm

>>>Ha, ha, ha. <<<

plop, plop, plop, in your mouth it plops....

strange creatures can never be understood.
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#299 Posted by rsridhar on January 28, 2006 7:08:03 pm
re: NT time editorial rams the sugarcane up the Mushy A$$
New York Times editorial says:
Kick the Paki dictator`s A$$
Excerpts:
(Mr. Aziz was appointed by a military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has yet to permit the democratic elections he has repeatedly promised since his coup more than six years ago.

That makes it awkward for Mr. Aziz to deliver messages about how highly the Pakistani people value their ties with Washington, particularly when just about every poll and street demonstration suggest just how unpopular those ties have become.)
(He has also proved to be unable, or unwilling, to close down the sanctuaries that three different groups of terrorists — Qaeda, Taliban and Kashmiri — have established along three Pakistani borders.)

(He has also proved to be unable, or unwilling, to close down the sanctuaries that three different groups of terrorists — Qaeda, Taliban and Kashmiri — have established along three Pakistani borders.)
Sridhar


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#298 Posted by Behram1 on January 28, 2006 7:05:27 pm

>>>Better still! since the ignorANUS is so obsessed with rail track shitting , he could also be called Mr LUMP OF SHIT or JANAB TATTI ( for Discoverer to understand) <<<

Another keera showing the courage to challenge the mighty Persian. Oooooh, ah. What kind of sugar cane technology would be needed?

Gandhi asked its follower to have early morning bowel movements.

Will this technology be better applied before or after the hindoo ritual?

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#297 Posted by rsridhar on January 28, 2006 7:00:31 pm
re:#290 by chowk`s ignoranus
(This hate monger has no brains whatsoever. Whatever he calls brains is stuck between his legs. He has a big godown between his hearing posts. He skull is filled with bouncing rocks.)
Ha, ha, ha.
The reason why i fiddle this guy is because i get above pearls that makes my day. One needs to have some entertainment now and then during the serious business of Paki bashing!
Now, if only this ignoranus had listened to my advice and started taking the sample i had sent him from the website www.iamapakiandiwantindiansh!t.com, he would not be behaving like this.
Sridhar
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#296 Posted by Ranjit on January 28, 2006 6:33:17 pm
Re:disco#292
[...who said i didn`t, my family migrated from calcutta , we have our family house over there still but some filty shit has taken over to our family house....]

Sorry to hear that!! Millions of people on both sides suffered a lot due to partition. Your story is common to so many people on both sides. It was a holocaust. Please do not feel hatred for what happened at that time. It was a passing frenzy.
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#295 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 28, 2006 5:36:46 pm
294 Mr.Arjun you need to get out of bad news spreader about IRP.
I wonder what you can say bad about new fountain. Pakistan made a new jet fountain which shoots up to 550 meters high in Sky. It is tallest shouting foundation with high techanology.
What is highest shooting foundation in India?
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#294 Posted by arjun_m on January 28, 2006 12:50:30 pm
hello inbred retard...

First you tell us


IT is not the way forward for Pakistan.


Then we find out the Paki government is actively seeking investments in IT

PM Shaukat Aziz seeks emigrant help to boost Pakistani IT industry .

NEW YORK (January 23 2006): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has urged expatriate Pakistani IT leaders to help develop Pakistan`s information technology industry so as to put the country on the world map in this sphere of activity.

``Pakistan is determined to go forward in this field, and we need your help,`` he said in a meeting with some 30 leading US-based Pakistani IT specialists and managers on Saturday.

During a two-hour interaction the IT leaders came up with a number of ideas and proposals aimed at giving a boost to Pakistan`s IT industry.
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#293 Posted by arjun_m on January 28, 2006 12:41:38 pm
India`s investment pitch attracts VIPs

JAN. 28 12:44 P.M. ET Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell asked about manufacturing semiconductors. Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe raised the problem of water supplies in rural areas. Golf course designer Robert Trent Jones wanted to know about ending a long war in Kashmir and promoting more tourism.

In the hot seat at Saturday`s breakfast were key policymakers from India who came to the World Economic Forum in force with the country`s top business executives for the first time to promote India`s rising star in the global economy -- and push for foreign investment.

India`s booming economy, growing at about 7 percent annually, attracted a VIP audience of the world`s business leaders who heard Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram say the government is aiming for growth of 8 percent to 10 percent.


Yogesh Deveshwar, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry and chairman of ITC Ltd., said economic reforms have unshackled ``Indian entrepreneurship`` and the country is embarking on a public-private effort to develop rural areas where 72 percent of its 1 billion people live.

Besides the potential rural market, India ``can actually be a food basket for the world`` and is already the second-largest attractor of private equity after Japan, he said.

The founder of the Dell computer company, the world`s largest direct seller of computers, noted that electric power and gasoline fueled the industrial age, ``but in the information age, the fuel, at least in a hardware sense, is semiconductors.``

Dell asked if India -- which has a large and growing information technology base -- was thinking about investments in producing the key component of personal electronics from computers to cell phones. ``If you look at the countries that have pursued this -- Taiwan, Singapore, Ireland and now, of course, China -- there`s been a concerted government industrial policy to essentially create this new industrial machinery,`` he said.

Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said semiconductor manufacturing ``is really the kind of manufacturing which we want. ... because we believe that one job created in manufacturing generates three jobs in services.``

Several foreign companies are setting up information technology-related manufacturing facilities, and he invited Dell to provide input to a group developing a policy ``which gives a quantum jump in this for the next five years.``

Chidambaram, the finance minister, said India was conscious that ``we must move quickly`` to establish facilities that assemble, test and make computers and other IT products, and one or two will begin work this year.

``I`m not talking so much about the assembly and the packaging,`` Dell interjected. ``I`m talking about the fabrication -- the foundry which is really a very significant investment, and is really needed for manufacturing to flourish in a significant way.``
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#292 Posted by discoverer on January 28, 2006 11:29:34 am
re ranjit,
``Re:disco#288

Disco bhai, please visit India sometime in your life and see for yourself what it is like. At the least read about India and educate yourself. You seem to have a lot of curiosity about India which is good. You will find that it is the only place in the world where Pakistanis are treated well, as mohar said.
``

who said i didn`t, my family migrated from calcutta , we have our family house over there still but some filty shit has taken over to our family house and there was a case well long story but trust me i have seen your country, i had seen taj mahal and other muslims historical places and i ahve seen little kids on streets as well, and trust me it ain`t good. At least i wasn`t treated well in india.
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#291 Posted by muqaddam on January 28, 2006 10:07:55 am
#283
Better still! since the ignorANUS is so obsessed with rail track shitting , he could also be called Mr LUMP OF SHIT or JANAB TATTI ( for Discoverer to understand)
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#290 Posted by Behram1 on January 28, 2006 8:05:27 am
Re: # 288

discoverer:


Sridhar is a total junglee, who likes to get his behind shafted with sugar canes. He is the most indecent Indian creature on this chowk. He has always attacked Islam for no reason whatsoever. He is inhuman and should be barred from this chowk. This hate monger has no brains whatsoever. Whatever he calls brains is stuck between his legs. He has a big godown between his hearing posts. He skull is filled with bouncing rocks.

{behram man you had pissed sridhar.} I would rather piss on this Indian creature. He is totally a shame to all Indians.

{My suggestion sridhar there are many bd paki`s around here ( sorry mohar can`t help) so next time don`t come here.} He will come because this is his therapy. This shamless guy shows up every night, and all he does is spew hate against Muslims, against anything that is Pakistani. He has not contributed a dime`s worth of benefit to this Chowk.

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#289 Posted by Ranjit on January 28, 2006 5:05:30 am
Re:disco#288

Disco bhai, please visit India sometime in your life and see for yourself what it is like. At the least read about India and educate yourself. You seem to have a lot of curiosity about India which is good. You will find that it is the only place in the world where Pakistanis are treated well, as mohar said.
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#288 Posted by discoverer on January 28, 2006 2:36:01 am
re ranjit,
``Yaar, why are you doing disco on chowk? That too to the music of Ustad behram1?

You are just picking out some weird news articles and generalizing for all of India. Come on, dude!! Even you with your disco moves knows better than that!! If you want a dialogue, say something substantial, dont just throw some verbal missiles.
``

Come`on you should admit, these links are awesome, it shows the true identity of indian, BTW this is something substantial, if you consider it as verbal missile let it be, coz indians all over even in chowk talk big and dreams of seeing india as super power. oooo super power country 1st disputes with your common problem and at least give your children jobs. beside i am enjoying seeing you all indians dancing.

You indians are such a shameless creature, you still believe in slavery *tourching innocent street children) and that to when the population is uncontrollable.



re=rsridhar,
``You are wasting your time.
Nobody is disputing the things u post. There are a lot of things wrong with India but as i already said, India is looking to change all that and not rotting away in past glory, as u guys seem to be.
Sridhar``


finally you agreed that india do have child abuse cases, human sacrifices etc etc, and still imagine all these indians are comparing india with PAKISTAN, as i always says, these thing does not happen in pakistan.

``There is however one word to describe Behram and his ilk. It is a word that is new to English language and is just about coming to vogue.
It is called Ignoranus
Basically, it is a play on the word Ignoramus, which we know means an ignorant fool (which this haraami is). It is a combo of Ignoramus and Anus.
Ignoranus literally means an ignoramus who is also an A$$hole.
This just about describes this behraam dude.
Behraam,
I bestow upon thee the coveted (by Pakis!) title of Ignoranus of Chowk. I decree that from now on, every Indian on chowk should address beharaam respectfully as Ignoranus.
Sridhar
``

OFFF baby, this is too much, where`s the fire, and i know who started the fire, behram man you had pissed sridhar.My suggestion sridhar there are many bd paki`s around here ( sorry mohar can`t help) so next time don`t come here.
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#287 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 27, 2006 10:36:45 pm
#286 Burki has become indophile and is servant of USA and banks what they say he writes. IIT is over rated but ok but lack of management is taking India down to poverty. Please send management study at Lahore. Many foren trained teachers.
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#286 Posted by rsridhar on January 27, 2006 7:06:20 pm
re: Javed Burki`s article
For those Pakis with blinkers on:
Burki article
Sridhar
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#285 Posted by Ranjit on January 27, 2006 4:49:56 pm
Re:disco-dancer#279

Yaar, why are you doing disco on chowk? That too to the music of Ustad behram1?

You are just picking out some weird news articles and generalizing for all of India. Come on, dude!! Even you with your disco moves knows better than that!! If you want a dialogue, say something substantial, dont just throw some verbal missiles.
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#284 Posted by rsridhar on January 27, 2006 4:41:48 pm
re:#279 by discoverer
You are wasting your time.
Nobody is disputing the things u post. There are a lot of things wrong with India but as i already said, India is looking to change all that and not rotting away in past glory, as u guys seem to be.
Sridhar
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#283 Posted by rsridhar on January 27, 2006 4:40:19 pm
re:L#280 by behram1
(Indians are so despicable that there are lots of different ways to describe them.)
There is however one word to describe Behram and his ilk. It is a word that is new to English language and is just about coming to vogue.
It is called Ignoranus
Basically, it is a play on the word Ignoramus, which we know means an ignorant fool (which this haraami is). It is a combo of Ignoramus and Anus.
Ignoranus literally means an ignoramus who is also an A$$hole.
This just about describes this behraam dude.
Behraam,
I bestow upon thee the coveted (by Pakis!) title of Ignoranus of Chowk. I decree that from now on, every Indian on chowk should address beharaam respectfully as Ignoranus.
Sridhar
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#282 Posted by rsridhar on January 27, 2006 4:32:04 pm
re:#270 by ranjit
Let Pakis rot in their own juice of hatred and jealousy.
or better still, they can learn some famous disco tunes and dance till they fall off.
Sridhar
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#281 Posted by rsridhar on January 27, 2006 4:30:53 pm
re: Mushy`s Davos
While the world is talking about economics at Davos (where WEF is meeting, Pak`s dictator Musharraf talks about terrorism and Kashmir!
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006/01/27/story_27-1-2006_pg7_1
Sridhar
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#280 Posted by Behram1 on January 27, 2006 1:09:55 pm

Ref: #278 by muqaddam on January 27, 2006 9:03am PT
{If asked to describe Indians briefly,}

Indians are so despicable that there are lots of different ways to describe them. But, on this Chowk these suffice.
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#279 Posted by discoverer on January 27, 2006 10:14:27 am
okay i am soory people that human right division link is this nt the one i posted last

www.hrw.org/reports/1996/India4.htm
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#278 Posted by muqaddam on January 27, 2006 9:03:53 am
If asked to describe Indians briefly, people like Behram and Discoverer would like to describe them as Cow urine drinking and squatting-on-railwaytracks Hindus. They and their ilk( of which there are many on Chowk) are obviously intellect challenged and should be excused for the way they react.

Any way for their enlightenment here is one of this visitor`s earlier post.

``Alas, yet another Paki living in self delusion! One never ceases to bump into these diehard types. It is the “we ruled over you” obsession gripping the likes of you that has already taken Pakistan down the drain over the years. Always trying to flex its muscles, thinking that India is just a walk over ( agli namaz Dilli ki Ja’ama masjid mein parhengay ), getting defeated, nay, ousted, routed and dismembered, yet ready to go for another round, like the famous defeated pehalwan who is forever dreaming of chitt karaoing the one that floored him. One just wonders how long you guys are going to get beaten, aren’t you ever going to stop? We are told that in your military academies the gentleman cadets have to take an oath that they shall avenge the defeat of 1971. Ab buss karo! Khansaheb,you have become fat on crumbs thrown at you by the Saudis and other Arabs, and we suppose therefrom this masti . But for how long are you going to keep begging these Sheiks? You renamed Lyallpur as Faisalabad to express your gratitude to the Saudis ( how subservient a qaum can get?), you have named a stadium in Lahore after Gaddafi during a visit when he is said to have come close to the IndoPak border and shouted abuses and spat at India. Remember, the Arab oil is running out, so the Arabs are not going to indulge in a terrorist state for long ( Pakis are suspected of involvement in terror attacks in Arab countries, maybe as a mark of gratitude to the Arabs for their largesses?).
The names of Ghazni, Ghori etc. that you and your ilk keep repeating, for heaven’s sake, cannot be appropriated by you as your own. Your forefathers were Indians and Hindus at that (your mother tongue which is either Punjabi, Sindhi or Avadhi/Bhojpuri/brajwasi(Urdu) clearly establishes that) and not these foreign raiders, looters and rapists. You are us. Your real forefathers also partook of cow urine, so you have it in your blood as much as the Indians !Your great great grandmothers, great great great grand mothers and great great great great grand mothers ( go back for 1200 years, as per your count) were raped by these outsiders and their progeny changed their religion ( obviously not voluntarily). So how much ever you try to appropriate to yourself the ancestry of the attacking hordes from Central Asia, you are nothing but Indians who turned Paki.

As far as defecating crowds, a friend from Central Asia still remembers that he cannot get out of his system the stench of human dung he experienced during his visit to Karachi recently.
For your kind information, as per the latest UN statistics, India’s per capita income is USD 550 where as Pakistan’s is USD 480``.

How much ever they might want to claim superiority, they have to accept that they are nothing but Indians that turned Paki
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#277 Posted by Behram1 on January 27, 2006 5:54:29 am

Just like Gandhi ordered:
early morning bowel movements.
use of railroad tracks.
continue with widow killings.

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#276 Posted by discoverer on January 27, 2006 3:53:52 am
re-bbabu

``The next link says that maybe South Indians have a higher suicide rate. Life in most of Southern India is a lot better than Pakistan. The whole area is booming.``

It`s not maybe IT IS, it`s from bbc.com and every indian on earth trust bbc more then their wife. Life is a lot better in southern india because same sex relationship are WIDE open, this is not done in pakistan, that`s true. the entire area is booming due to an increase in population, increase in suicidal rate, ZAAT etc, here`s an example,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4304081.stm




re rsridhar & ranjit,

true india is evrywhere, in porn movies, in suicidal rate, in population, in ZAAT killing, etc etc, basically where ever indian goes that place becomes dirty. These are the characteristic of indians all over they shows their natural colour even in uk, this link is disturbing so be advice,

http://www.despardes.com/Diaspora/newsbriefs/jan05/6.htm
An indian prist raped a girl in U.K.

I have no idea what you indians are taught in school, this is your true identity, Accoeding to this link indians sacrifices human in order to succeed in life, coz according to indians KALI enjoys human sacrificesaand in return give the other person wealth and health.

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020729-322673,00.html



re harish_hyd,

``[About pathans, 60 % of bollywood have pathan as their famous actor, i don`t think you wanna know whom i am talking about. BUt i thinks Patans are much better then Indians. Maybe indians are no good i understanding.]

You just proved again that you are dumb as I suspected in my last post. FYI, Bollywood doesn`t hold entrance tests to ascertain actors` IQ levels.``

How will i know, i only know indians like these actoes alot and these actor are the one who are driving you film industry.


speaking of which, i forgot mention uf indinas don`t find a job they enter in to bollywood and presents themselves as sexual slaves, now a days hollywood is coming out with some neat clean movies so that families can enjoy. But bollywood on the other hand are coming out which movies which are distroying not just indian culture but also their neighbouring culture as well. Not only that india`s T,V serial are accepting nudity and due to this neighbouring india is spoiling our youth as well, this is the reason why in Bangladesh ,Nepal and Pakistan most indinas channel are blocked, and in countries like U.A.E, Yeman, Jorden etc these channels are being censored.
http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20040708-2.html


``Bullshit is what you`re peddling goatbrain! Now if someone, say a Sunni terrorist shoots and kills a Shia, do you go around calling that a ``Pakis are killing Pakis`` thing?


SO in that case donkey penis, YOu are suggesting that it is okay for indians to work in a porn movies, ooo i am sorrry i forget, its legal over their right.




arjun_m,

Reality Indi reality,

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=76251

A Manipuri girl`s throat was slit allegedly by an insane man at the Gateway of India on Saturday evening. Tourist Nga Kuimi Raleng died on the spot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3405579.stm

Police in India say a British tourist has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

okay every one i want you all to have a look at this one, ITS a report from human right watch,
India has the largest population of street children in the world.2 At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of urban India, laboring as porters at bus or railway terminals; as mechanics in informal auto-repair shops; as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles; as street tailors; or as ragpickers, picking through garbage and selling usable materials to local buyers.3

``Indian street children are routinely detained illegally, beaten and tortured and sometimes killed by police. Several factors contribute to this phenomenon: police perceptions of street children, widespread corruption and a culture of police violence, the inadequacy and non-implementation of legal safeguards, and the level of impunity that law enforcement officials enjoy. The police generally view street children as vagrants and criminals. While it is true that street children are sometimes involved in petty theft, drug-trafficking, prostitution and other criminal activities, the police tend to assume that whenever a crime is committed on the street, street children are either involved themselves or know the culprit. Their proximity to a crime is considered reason enough to detain them. This abuse violates both Indian domestic law and international human rights standards``.


here`s the link

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005747.html




And TAKE A LOOK AT THIS,ITS FROM WELL I WON``T SPOIL THIS ISSUE< THIS IS THE TRUEIDENTITY OF INDIA,



http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/rights/102/290492.html




re-mohar11,

Read this http://news.indiainfo.com/2002/07/18/18freed.html

``But seriously - it`s the pakis who are complaining about their special treatments at airports around the world - we see stories/articles in paki newspapers every once a while...``

I don`t think Samyuktha Verma is pakistani, humm...

``Ironically - only country pakis get good treatment is in india - easy visa - easy entry - warm welcome and what not - you know, with all the ``friendship`` thing going on these days......``

read this, there`s not such thing as easy visa to india
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005747.html




I hope you indians have a clear view of your world, trust me you all are wasting your time here, go
indi go stop, your human sacrifices, child abuse, poverty etc etc....and ranjit baby don`t hide your face any where this is just the beginning & start accepting my idea`s in #266


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#275 Posted by muqaddam on January 27, 2006 3:52:52 am

If asked to describe Indians briefly, people like Behram and Discoverer would like to describe them as Cow urine drinking and squatting-on-railwaytracks Hindus. They and their ilk( of which there are many on Chowk) are obviously intellect challenged and should be excused for the way they react.

Any way for their enlightenment here is one of this visitor`s earlier post.

``Alas, yet another Paki living in self delusion! One never ceases to bump into these diehard types. It is the “we ruled over you” obsession gripping the likes of you that has already taken Pakistan down the drain over the years. Always trying to flex its muscles, thinking that India is just a walk over ( agli namaz Dilli ki Ja’ama masjid mein parhengay ), getting defeated, nay, ousted, routed and dismembered, yet ready to go for another round, like the famous defeated pehalwan who is forever dreaming of chitt karaoing the one that floored him. One just wonders how long you guys are going to get beaten, aren’t you ever going to stop? We are told that in your military academies the gentleman cadets have to take an oath that they shall avenge the defeat of 1971. Ab buss karo! Khansaheb,you have become fat on crumbs thrown at you by the Saudis and other Arabs, and we suppose therefrom this masti . But for how long are you going to keep begging these Sheiks? You renamed Lyallpur as Faisalabad to express your gratitude to the Saudis ( how subservient a qaum can get?), you have named a stadium in Lahore after Gaddafi during a visit when he is said to have come close to the IndoPak border and shouted abuses and spat at India. Remember, the Arab oil is running out, so the Arabs are not going to indulge in a terrorist state for long ( Pakis are suspected of involvement in terror attacks in Arab countries, maybe as a mark of gratitude to the Arabs for their largesses?).
The names of Ghazni, Ghori etc. that you and your ilk keep repeating, for heaven’s sake, cannot be appropriated by you as your own. Your forefathers were Indians and Hindus at that (your mother tongue which is either Punjabi, Sindhi or Avadhi/Bhojpuri/brajwasi(Urdu) clearly establishes that) and not these foreign raiders, looters and rapists. You are us. Your real forefathers also partook of cow urine, so you have it in your blood as much as the Indians !Your great great grandmothers, great great great grand mothers and great great great great grand mothers ( go back for 1200 years, as per your count) were raped by these outsiders and their progeny changed their religion ( obviously not voluntarily). So how much ever you try to appropriate to yourself the ancestry of the attacking hordes from Central Asia, you are nothing but Indians who turned Paki.

As far as defecating crowds, a friend from Central Asia still remembers that he cannot get out of his system the stench of human dung he experienced during his visit to Karachi recently.
For your kind information, as per the latest UN statistics, India’s per capita income is USD 550 where as Pakistan’s is USD 480``.

How much ever they might want to claim superiority, they have to accept that they are nothing but Indians that turned Paki

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#274 Posted by muqaddam on January 27, 2006 3:41:25 am

If asked to describe Indians briefly, people like Behram and Discoverer would like to describe them as Cow drinking and squatting-on-railwaytracks Hindus. They and their ilk( of which there are many on Chowk) are obviously intellect challenged and should be excused for the way they react.

Any way for their enlightenment here is one of this visitor`s earlier post.

``Alas, yet another Paki living in self delusion! One never ceases to bump into these diehard types. It is the “we ruled over you” obsession gripping the likes of you that has already taken Pakistan down the drain over the years. Always trying to flex its muscles, thinking that India is just a walk over ( agli namaz Dilli ki Ja’ama masjid mein parhengay ), getting defeated, nay, ousted, routed and dismembered, yet ready to go for another round, like the famous defeated pehalwan who is forever dreaming of chitt karaoing the one that floored him. One just wonders how long you guys are going to get beaten, aren’t you ever going to stop? We are told that in your military academies the gentleman cadets have to take an oath that they shall avenge the defeat of 1971. Ab buss karo! Khansaheb,you have become fat on crumbs thrown at you by the Saudis and other Arabs, and we suppose therefrom this masti . But for how long are you going to keep begging these Sheiks? You renamed Lyallpur as Faisalabad to express your gratitude to the Saudis ( how subservient a qaum can get?), you have named a stadium in Lahore after Gaddafi during a visit when he is said to have come close to the IndoPak border and shouted abuses and spat at India. Remember, the Arab oil is running out, so the Arabs are not going to indulge in a terrorist state for long ( Pakis are suspected of involvement in terror attacks in Arab countries, maybe as a mark of gratitude to the Arabs for their largesses?).
The names of Ghazni, Ghori etc. that you and your ilk keep repeating, for heaven’s sake, cannot be appropriated by you as your own. Your forefathers were Indians and Hindus at that (your mother tongue which is either Punjabi, Sindhi or Avadhi/Bhojpuri/brajwasi(Urdu) clearly establishes that) and not these foreign raiders, looters and rapists. You are us. Your real forefathers also partook of cow urine, so you have it in your blood as much as the Indians !Your great great grandmothers, great great great grand mothers and great great great great grand mothers ( go back for 1200 years, as per your count) were raped by these outsiders and their progeny changed their religion ( obviously not voluntarily). So how much ever you try to appropriate to yourself the ancestry of the attacking hordes from Central Asia, you are nothing but Indians who turned Paki.

As far as defecating crowds, a friend from Central Asia still remembers that he cannot get out of his system the stench of human dung he experienced during his visit to Karachi recently.
For your kind information, as per the latest UN statistics, India’s per capita income is USD 550 where as Pakistan’s is USD 480``.

How much ever they might want to claim superiority, they have to accept that they are nothing but Indians that turned Paki

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#273 Posted by harish_hyd on January 27, 2006 12:33:36 am
#219 by discoverer

[Maybe you didn`t open that link, if not then it about indians forcing THEIR fellow indian to work in a porn movie coz the`re paid better. It seems your post make no sense at all.]

Bullshit is what you`re peddling goatbrain! Now if someone, say a Sunni terrorist shoots and kills a Shia, do you go around calling that a ``Pakis are killing Pakis`` thing?

[.....well at lease we don`t force our country man and women to have sex.]

Oh well, you just force them to strap bombs on to their bodies and blow themselves up. As western news sources have elaborately portrayed, Jihad is a thriving enterprise for unemployed Paki youth.

[About pathans, 60 % of bollywood have pathan as their famous actor, i don`t think you wanna know whom i am talking about. BUt i thinks Patans are much better then Indians. Maybe indians are no good i understanding.]

You just proved again that you are dumb as I suspected in my last post. FYI, Bollywood doesn`t hold entrance tests to ascertain actors` IQ levels.
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#272 Posted by tahmed32 on January 26, 2006 6:21:02 pm
arjun #271 we are indeed not worthy, O enlightened monkey-man.
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#271 Posted by arjun_m on January 26, 2006 4:40:57 pm
Reality Pakis

Another downward revision

SO there`s another downward revision of the expected GDP growth rate for FY2005-06. This time the IMF has expressed concern that Pakistan`s real GDP growth rate will end up around 6.3 per cent, much lower than the seven per cent targeted in the ADP. Recently, the SBP and ADB registered similar worries, the former predicting the growth to lie in the 6 - 6.6 per cent range while the latter calculating it at approximately 6.5 per cent. By now, the economic managers must have realised, though they have not admitted, that the high growth that was to supposedly bring about the trickle down owed much to `weather and water-dependant crops`, which do not bring last-year-like good news this time around. The worrying aspects continue to be the current account balance, set to remain negative in the range of 3.4 per cent, CPI inflation expected to settle at 8.7 per cent and the budget deficit being increased up to 3.7 per cent of the GDP.
Even when the government set about extracting the maximum possible growth figure towards the end of the last fiscal, it was warned of creating complications not much different from the ones that have arisen. It bears reminding that the middle and lower income groups have had to bear the brunt of the path to high growth. But now that the growth momentum is losing lustre, they find themselves facing unbearably high prices, stagnant incomes and constantly eroding purchasing power with the trickle down nowhere in sight. Therefore, not much has been achieved save kudos from certain segments of the international community for apparently turning Pakistan`s economy around, a statement that no longer rings as loud at home as it used to some years back.
Comparing with neighbours like China and India, Pakistan is not entirely in the running for South Asia`s powerhouses. While China`s economy continues to grow at a frightening pace, India`s strong democratic institutions and stronger economic lure is catching the attention of the biggest powers of the world. Even though Pakistan has been the most forthcoming state in the so called War on Terror, Washington continues to tilt more towards India, politically, economically and militarily, as prime focus shifts away from Afghanistan. These developments should be cause for considerable concern to the government, especially since they can leave it prone to isolation within the South Asian region. At the risk of repetition, the government is urged to mould its skewed economic growth model and improve conditions on the ground instead of taking pride in impressive statistics, which are fast proving not easy to sustain. The trend of downward revision of the growth figure is gathering force. It is still not certain whether it will fall any further. But with agriculture and LSM doing slowing down and trade and current account deficits just balloon out of proportion, it just might.
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#270 Posted by Ranjit on January 26, 2006 2:58:14 pm
Re:rsridhar#269

Yaar, please have some mercy on disco mian :-). You are giving him a heart attack with all these success stories of India.

Soon he will be dancing to the tune of ``Its the time to disco!!`` :-)
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#269 Posted by rsridhar on January 26, 2006 2:47:20 pm
re:#263 by discoverer
Pakis, when confronted with stark realities, seem to feel better by narrating India`s woes. Nobody disputes these problems that India constantly faces but India is on the rise and the economic progress will continue to happen, despite various hurdles.
In Davos, where the WEF is meeting, the buzzword is:
India Everywhere
Also, see the article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/business/worldbusiness/26india.html?_r=5&oref=login
You need to register to view the article. So, i am posting the article in full:
(`India Everywhere` in the Alps
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg NewsIndia is spending $5 million on a publicity campaign in Switzerland, including ads on billboards and buses.

By MARK LANDLER
Published: January 26, 2006
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 — Delhi swept into Davos on Wednesday, with an extravagant public relations campaign by India intended to promote the country as the world`s next economic superstar, and as a democratic alternative to China for the affections of foreign investors.


Reporters from The Times and IHT are at the World Economic Forum, blogging on the issues, the politics and the celebrities.

There were few places one could go, on this first day of the World Economic Forum`s annual meeting here, without seeing, hearing, drinking, or tasting something Indian. The organizers call the campaign ``India Everywhere`` and they appear to mean it literally.

``The last two years, we felt there was too much about China, and India wasn`t being heard,`` said Ajay Khanna, the chief executive of the India Brand Equity Foundation, which is orchestrating the promotion. ``This year, we decided to make a major effort to give India a voice.``

There is little danger of India`s being drowned out, with a 150-member delegation, including 3 cabinet ministers and 41 chief executives. Mr. Khanna estimated the total cost of the campaign and the travel expenses at $5 million. Never before, officials of the forum said, has a country mounted such an elaborate charm offensive at Davos.

``We`re going to showcase the arrival of the global Indian entrepreneur,`` said Nandan M. Nilekani, the chief executive of Infosys Technologies, which grew to $2 billion in sales in 2005 from $120 million in 1999 and has come to symbolize India`s vaulting ambitions.

The question is whether India`s unspoken message — that it is another China — is credible. After all, China still grows faster than India, has attracted 10 times the foreign direct investment and has built a gleaming network of airports and highways that make India look ramshackle.

``There are a number of areas where people gloss over India`s challenges,`` said Jim O`Neill, the head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, citing India`s inadequate education system and barriers to foreign ownership of Indian assets as significant weaknesses.

``It`s starting to be tricky to find skilled workers there,`` Mr. O`Neill said. ``India is also a very closed economy.``

Goldman contributed to the euphoria about India, by projecting that its economy could be 50 times its current size by 2050, which would make it the world`s third largest, after China and the United States.

But Mr. O`Neill said that when he ranked countries by the potential risks to their growth — everything from inflation to corruption — India ranked 97th in the world, behind Brazil and the Philippines.

Indian entrepreneurs concede their country has problems. Social tensions from mass migration and the fragility of the current government could disrupt development. Roads and airports remain woeful, and construction projects are often snarled in bureaucracy.

``If you want to make Barbie dolls, don`t come to India,`` said Anand G. Mahindra, the head of one of India`s largest conglomerates. ``Because if you order one million of them, they`ll probably be held up in traffic from Mumbai to the port,`` he said, using the post-colonial name for Bombay.

Still, India is beginning to enjoy China-like growth, expanding 8.1 percent from April to June 2005. Its gross domestic product will expand by an average of 6.1 percent a year from 2005 to 2010, according to Goldman.

Advertisements on buses here promote India as the world`s ``fastest-growing free-market democracy`` — a not-so-subtle reference to China, which has done little to relax the grip of the Communist Party over society. India, by contrast, is a clamorous democracy, with 675 million eligible voters.

``Democracy is a big advantage for us,`` said Malvinder M. Singh, the president of Ranbaxy Laboratories, India`s top drug company. ``It is not the only advantage, but it is definitely one big advantage.``

Mr. Singh, a 33-year-old with an M.B.A. from Duke University, said India`s strength in chemistry had given its pharmaceutical industry an edge over that of China. While Chinese companies focus on raw materials, he said, Ranbaxy produces generic drugs and plans to expand its proprietary products.

Despite the constant comparisons to China, most Indians insist the two are not competing, and can both prosper. ``I call it Chindia,`` joked Nikhil Meswani, the executive director of Reliance Industries.

With companies like Reliance, Ranbaxy and Infosys already global competitors, experts say India`s further development will hinge largely on whether the government can loosen up the labor market, build decent roads and airports, and knock down hurdles to foreign investment.

India, for example, still prohibits Wal-Mart and Carrefour, Europe`s largest retailer, from opening stores in the country. But this week, it announced that it would allow single-brand merchants, like Tommy Hilfiger, to open shops.

``I`m sure people in the government wanted it to be done in time for Davos,`` said Montek S. Ahluwalia, the deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission, ``but it wasn`t done for Davos.``

India has left little else to chance in its courting of people here. It has organized daily news conferences and happy hours, as well as an art exhibit. For the gala ball, which will have an Indian theme, it is flying in chefs from 14 Taj luxury hotels to whip up Indian cuisine.

In their hotel rooms on Wednesday, participants found tiny iPods with Indian music recorded on them, and Pashmina stoles, described as a ``gift from the Himalayas to keep you warm in the Alps.``

Mr. Nilekani said he hoped the campaign would polish India`s image and attract tourists, as well as some foreign investment. At a cost of $5 million, he noted, ``we get a lot of bang for our buck.``)
Sridhar

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#268 Posted by bbabu on January 26, 2006 1:36:17 pm
discoverer #263

`` This is to inform you that you all are merely wasting your time in chowk.com , blaming pakistan for all that happens in your country. As a neighbour Pakistani`s all over feel very pathetic when they visit these link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/416458.stm
especially this link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3590847.stm ``

Your first link says there are one billion Indians.

The next link says that maybe South Indians have a higher suicide rate. Life in most of Southern India is a lot better than Pakistan. The whole area is booming.

`` You should stop worring about pakistan and start thinking about india`s population, its food resource, and most disturbingly you should stop your youth of commiting sucide. Even though india is on the world top most list where people commit suicide but your population is on hight still ( strange ). India is given a world wide recognition as `` World Suicide Capital.``
I don`t think this is not a all good for india, and only because of stupid indian like here chowk.com who don`t think about there country and follow talk big do little policy, Pakistan is also being blamed for. Only because we are its neighbour as mohar11 said ``paki are good people``. ``

Nordic countries have the highest suicide rates in the world. Most people on earth would love in those countries.
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#267 Posted by mohar11 on January 26, 2006 9:11:13 am
Disco
[...every airport, hummm.... shit man how come i couldn`t see that, i must have my eyes check....]

Well yeah - get your eyes checked if you want to - but from what I gather from pakis who have been victims of cavity-search - they didn`t ``see`` it either - they just ``felt`` it..... :)))

But seriously - it`s the pakis who are complaining about their special treatments at airports around the world - we see stories/articles in paki newspapers every once a while...

Ironically - only country pakis get good treatment is in india - easy visa - easy entry - warm welcome and what not - you know, with all the ``friendship`` thing going on these days......
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#266 Posted by discoverer on January 26, 2006 8:46:02 am
re-mohar11,

``Disco Mian

If we hinuds don`t ``worry`` about you pakis and your ``problems`` - then who will? I mean - who else cares about you pakis? Every airport in the world has special cavity search teams ready for you folks - right?``

every airport, hummm.... shit man how come i couldn`t see that, i must have my eyes check.#damit#. On the contary, maybe you are talking about EVERY AIRPORT in india, because half of the worlds` population is in india neglecting indians elsewhere, thats make india half the world rite?. But in some manner i agree to your statement only indians have enough time on their hand, coz they have nothing to do, you know, population is at its peak, unemployement everywhere hence you all starts worring about other country. Governments should pay you for that, if they don`t i suggest you go for STRIKE. I`ll suggest you a new policy ``no money no thinking``, stop everything you do, don`t come to chowk for the next leap year at least. hope you understand.

Regards,
disco ( abb tum kiskoo!!!!!)
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#265 Posted by mohar11 on January 26, 2006 8:08:11 am
Disco Mian

If we hinuds don`t ``worry`` about you pakis and your ``problems`` - then who will? I mean - who else cares about you pakis? Every airport in the world has special cavity search teams ready for you folks - right?
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#264 Posted by tahmed32 on January 26, 2006 7:48:59 am
Discoverer: you are indeed on a Voyage of Discovery on Planet Chowk - aka the Planet of the Apes. :-)
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#263 Posted by discoverer on January 26, 2006 7:40:04 am
Dear Indians,
This is to inform you that you all are merely wasting your time in chowk.com , blaming pakistan for all that happens in your country. As a neighbour Pakistani`s all over feel very pathetic when they visit these link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/416458.stm
especially this link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3590847.stm

You should stop worring about pakistan and start thinking about india`s population, its food resource, and most disturbingly you should stop your youth of commiting sucide. Even though india is on the world top most list where people commit suicide but your population is on hight still ( strange ). India is given a world wide recognition as `` World Suicide Capital.``
I don`t think this is not a all good for india, and only because of stupid indian like here chowk.com who don`t think about there country and follow talk big do little policy, Pakistan is also being blamed for. Only because we are its neighbour as mohar11 said ``paki are good people``.

Regards
Disco ( yet to disco-ver- indians)
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#262 Posted by jang on January 26, 2006 6:52:59 am
#254 very droll indeed..indians have had a long tradition of ``sanyas`` or denouncement of material life ..i suspect most of the baba-yogi-rishis in himalayas ran away from their wives..even buddha did run away from his wife, although no marital spat is indicated.
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#261 Posted by dullabhatti on January 25, 2006 9:57:54 pm
LCCI Vice President Aftab Ahmad Vohra



err... stuka kahaN hai.:-)
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#260 Posted by hamidm2 on January 25, 2006 6:29:02 pm
mohar,

..... for god`s sake ! it was on the front page of bbc south asia (my home page) ....... how could anyone miss it ........ and really, it is genuinly funny - sometimes when mrs hamidm gets on my case i feel like climbing the nearest tree ........ nothing wrong with it except for the dhoti ........
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#259 Posted by rsridhar on January 25, 2006 6:06:09 pm
re:#227 by arjun_m
(LCCI Vice President Aftab Ahmad Vohra threw light on the present global scenario. He said the growth of IT sector in Pakistan had been miraculous....)
LCCI VP is right. IT sector growth in Pak has indeed been miraculous. IT (International Terrorism) continues to grow in Pakistan.
Sridhar
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#258 Posted by rsridhar on January 25, 2006 6:01:46 pm
re:#230 by behram1
The website www.iamapakiandiwantindiansh!t.com has a special offer. It is offering a special deal for Pasees in Pakiland who are in dire need of the stuff. I have shipped it to you.
Happy sh!teating!
Sridhar
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#257 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 4:22:49 pm
HAHA...5.50$/hr TSA agents show Pakiland it`s aukaad..Not only are average abdul pakis anally probed when they land at western airports, the PM`s entourage gets the same treatment..

VIEW: Serves ‘em right —Kamran Shafi

On to other matters now, and may I say to those who are incensed at the American’s ingression into Pakistan in the Bajaur area and the killing of innocent women and children that there is little point in getting ourselves into a great big lather: for while the American government has studiously avoided even saying sorry, it has added insult to injury by humiliating Private Banker Shaukat Aziz’s entourage at JFK airport by body searching the eminences, all official guests, and how! Telling us Paks in very clear terms where exactly we stand in their esteem.

However, while the injury of the bombing hurt every feeling Pakistani, the insult at New York is only of the Private Banker and this jellyfish we call the Government of the Land of the Pure. You and I have nothing to do with it.

For, only last week, writing about the week-kneed response of the government to the Damadola outrage I had said, “... we will have conveyed to the American Establishment that Pakistan is as ready as heretofore for even more slights; even more kicks ...”.

So let me say with all the force at my command that I refuse to be sullied by the shame that was heaped on these people: I absolutely refuse, for many times have I requested the Big General to please, please ensure that his appointees act with some little honour, some little propriety so that the rest of us poor (and hapless) Pakistanis are not disgraced because of what they do.

Let me ask a simple question here: what would have happened if (perish the thought) Sharifuddin Pirzada, the most senior of Shaukat Aziz’s advisers; or (perish the thought) the foreign secretary, the most senior bureaucrat on the delegation, had refused to be searched on the grounds that they were members of an official delegation headed by none other than the ‘prime minister’ of an allied country; that they were guests of the US government and were travelling by an official Pakistani aircraft — one that had weapons of the ‘prime minister’s’ security detail on board anyway? What would have happened, please? Would they have been ‘rendered’ to Romania, on way to Guantanamo?

Indeed, why didn’t the Pakistan embassy pre-empt the disgrace by asking the Americans to waive the body search for members of the official delegation, invited to the United States by the US government itself? It should jolly well have known what the ‘normal’ procedures are, for other Pakistani eminences on ‘official’ trips have been mistreated before.

Having said which, let me say that my joy at seeing the unbounded pomposity of our eminences drain out of them in no time flat at the hands of the $5.50-an-hour TSA agents was boundless! There was the formidable Pirzada, the great friend and confidant of dictators and autocrats and scourge of many a judge, and possibly the first and only law minister, attorney general, and practising lawyer all rolled into one removing his hat, putting it on again, removing it again and emptying out his pockets, all on order; there was the bane of elected political leaders Senator Azeem, awaiting his turn; there was the foreign secretary, arms akimbo, shuffling this way and that and looking lost and bewildered.
Boy, oh boy, what fun! Well, serve ‘em right for grovelling so hard before the Americans.

May I end by saying that one couldn’t believe one’s ears when the Big General did not even mention, even in passing, the American government’s bombing of Damadola in Bajaur in his most recent speech to the nation. Shiekh Rashid ‘Tulli’ is obviously right when he says that the speech the General read out had been written months ago: even before the earthquake of October 8!
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#256 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 4:09:45 pm
#251 by HP on January 25, 2006 2:33pm PT

Umm...it`s all technical...too technical for a cab driver like you(and a paki to boot) to understand..

apparently the amateurs running chowk didn`t understand it either when I send them feedback a year ago about their site allowing xss..
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#255 Posted by Behram1 on January 25, 2006 3:51:32 pm

......... this is hilarious !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4643678.stm

Of course, this is how most Indians have been living. One of them who escaped has been seen on chowk. He identifies himself as rsridhar.

Indians are strange creatures for humans to understand.




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#254 Posted by mohar11 on January 25, 2006 3:05:43 pm
hamdim

What happend to you man?......What did you smoke while you were back in islamic land?.... Since when you started crawling the cyberspace to find ``funny`` stories? :)))
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#253 Posted by hamidm2 on January 25, 2006 2:59:04 pm

......... this is hilarious !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4643678.stm
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#252 Posted by Netizen on January 25, 2006 2:37:51 pm
#202 GT:

``How do you know that it is ``many``.

Well, in the example i did mention more than one, didn`t I? It it satisfies you i am open to re-phrase it by replacing 4-5 (whichever is correct) in place pf ``many``. fine?


``Your sample is from chowk interactors.``

i never said it is from a gallop poll conducted in pak.


`` Implications about Indians, Pakistanis, Hindus and Muslims are drawn from the sample of chowk interactors by other great `intellectual` chowk interactors. ``

dude, i am not implying anything from it. Hamidm said ``we`` (pakis) are not bothered and I tried to say that you are incorrect.

thats pretty much.

it was plain english, no fundo statistics.

``and now you will say that most Pakistanis are closet Merlot drinkers who in their sober states analyse the pros and cons of Hindutva-intoxicated-Indians defecating on railroad tracks. ``

no I wouldn`t.

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#251 Posted by HP on January 25, 2006 2:33:46 pm


turd,

How did you know he was disabaling people`s account?

You see you have puny little balls for brain...

I agree Chowk admin should have better security....



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#250 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 2:25:57 pm
goatbrain: if a kid like gujjubania can hack into chowk and disable people`s accounts, it doesn`t say much about the chowk admins, does it...
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#249 Posted by HP on January 25, 2006 2:03:20 pm

turd,

How many traces did you run with gujju on chowk servers?

how does gujjubania2006@hotmail.com sound? Puny little balls for brain.

How many more attempts are you going to make on chowk servers....
Lets hear it why are you shy about it...let`s see how much you learned at the school system from hell...

It is not your fault puny balls for brain. It is the school system from hell that produces puny little balls for brain....



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#248 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 1:53:43 pm
#247 by HP on January 25, 2006 1:51pm PT

chowk`s cab driver is on the chapter ``scripts`` in ``internet for dummies``...

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#247 Posted by HP on January 25, 2006 1:51:02 pm


Hey turd,

Ha! HA! Did you trace madni`s IP address? Puny little balls for brain how many scripts worked on Chowk site.....Did you bring it down or the error comes up on line 215....

It is not your fault balls for brain. It is the school system from hell that produces puny little balls for brain....



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#246 Posted by mohar11 on January 25, 2006 1:50:21 pm
Oh boy - what happened here?..... who set HP`s paki-a$$ on fire? :)
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#245 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 1:42:22 pm
#244 by HP on January 25, 2006 1:03pm PT



Try tracing my IP number...


You`re the networking genius..you`re the one who did all the detective work and exposed asia times as a foreign intel operation.....why don`t you trace my IP address?

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#244 Posted by HP on January 25, 2006 1:03:46 pm


turd,

It sure does not beat `writing` bogus scripts on chowk...how many attempts failed? Try tracing my IP number...

Only a school system from hell can produce people with ``puny little balls`` for brain and proud of it too.

Look at the Bathroom cleaning man extolling about Google...You sure know what is the hindi word for that... google it...balls for brain.

Now I am just waiting for the head jamadar anull to show up to help you with cleaning your butt. Like he was doing it for Veeresh....








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#243 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 12:49:43 pm
#242 by HP on January 25, 2006 12:45pm PT



You just got your butt handed to you in a public forum.


Umm..that`s right..I`m the one who did the fantastic detective work on resolving asiatimes.com..great work sherlock...that one ranks right up there, just below the t-shirt with a paki flag comment..
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#242 Posted by HP on January 25, 2006 12:45:29 pm

#241

turd,

Facts and you ...don’t jive... puny little balls for brain reflects you well.

I am glad that you find Google helpful...It sure beats the school system from hell.

You just got your butt handed to you in a public forum.

Get lost…balls for brain….



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#241 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 12:30:29 pm
#240 by HP on January 25, 2006 11:45am PT

That`s right goatbrain...facts that go against your deluded worldview are without purpose...

It`s poetic justice really..Pakis get slapped with the facts that differ from their self-deluded view of reality..and what better way to find facts than to use google news, conceived by Google principal scientist Krishna Bharat, an Indian-American..

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#240 Posted by HP on January 25, 2006 11:45:10 am
#239
turd,

Only a person with puny little balls for brain would proudly displaying his work in posting a link to a Pakistani newspaper for a news report that clearly has a purpose. Any person with real matter between the ears (well!) would know where it is coming from and what it means.

That is your serious dilemma. The school system from hell (or in hell) did not teach you to think. It just helped you think from your puny little balls for brain.





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#239 Posted by arjun_m on January 25, 2006 11:14:43 am
#235 by HP on January 25, 2006 9:56am PT

goatbrain: you`ve already shown your lack of brains with your idiotic ``detective`` work on asiatimes.com in your ilog..stop embarrassing yourself already..
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