IT or a time to get LIT?

Ref Layman #: 46

[I read this guy`s article earlier and think this Moran deserves a swift kick in the butt. India is nobody`s card to play. This `Moron` is mistaking India with UK, Saudi, Pakistan and other countries in America`s `Card Game`.]

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Delusions of grandeur, I see.

Just remember one thing: if there is an Indo-Pak war tomorrow, the US would be passing real-time information on India`s troop deployment collected from its overhead satellites to Pakistan. It would get there faster than reports from your front-line commanders would get to Vajpayee.

The US can make India the equal of Pakistan anytime it chooses. Until you have a military that can threaten immeasurable harm to the US, you will get no respect from the US and you are just a card to play in the game of geopolitics.

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Ref wholly-precious-you #: 48

[just don’t let them see you eating…we don’t want them to think all of us have bottomless pits for stomachs ;).. ]

Or be thought to be a ``starving Indian`` ;)

AWESOME...very moving. Motivational. Has anything changed?

re:#22 by Rdesikan
Our Chowk General is good at generalising. That is why he is called a General. It is a pity he has not heard of P.T Usha, the only Indian (and yes, a south Indian) who came close to winning a medal in olympics. There are more sports schools in Kerala today than anywhere else in the subcontinent. Pity the chowk general does not know this.
sridhar

re:#15 by arjun_m
The biggest company founded by Pakis in 1947, called Pakistan, is sinking today. It has become a loss-making entity and is being kept afloat by foreign money. Its CEO is a short, pot-bellied, arrogant, devious guy who has taken over the (mis)management of the whole company, with all shareholders looking on helplessly. Shareholders cannot sack their CEO and are allowed to vote only if they abide by certain rules and promise that they will keep electing the same CEO!
This CEOs management skills are so good that he is actually taking his company in the reverse direction! While the whole world is entering the 21st century, his company is still in the 20th century and will soon be entering the 19th century, Inshallah. Now, that is quite an achievement. Romair is right. Paksitanis` skills as executives of any company cannot be questioned.
Sridhar

re:#10 by Star Buck
I would take more time to respond to you later. You do not seem to understand the kind of power IT has unleashed on the Indian masses. IT is no panacea but it can be used to disseminate information like nothing before. Andhra, TN and other states have been gearing up to this prospect for sometime now. This has nothing to do with caste. You are a moron if you think so. TN is teaching IT in class rooms. IT has truely been a leveller as far as caste equations are concerned. Anyone can go and enrol in an intitution (most are private) and learn the skills.
Have you heard of something called Simputer that was recently released by IIM-Bangalore scientiists? This does not even cost $200 and is being marketed in rural areas. This will increase access to computer in rural areas manifold. Have you heard of an innovative program called Tele-medicine? This is being spearheaded by Apollo group of hospitals and involves giving medical advice to people in far off areas thr` computer aided tools by doctors sitting in a hospital in a city. The list is endless. This is a mass revolution and i, sitting in US, feel excited about all this.
Sridhar

re:#9 by Romair
``This is why people cannot figure out how so many South Indians can run companies, when many of them can barely speak two words with confidence``
Intel was found by a south indian. He regularly addresses convocations in universities as a chief guest and is often consulted in matters related to IT by GOI.
South Indians by and large are not as gregarious as say Punjabees or other north indians. This is my personal observation as a south indian who has lived in the north all my life. That does not mean they lack the skills to be CEOs of a company. May be the ones you have met have given you that impression. The Pakis i have met have all been dull headed and awful looking and goes against the general impression that Pakis (or north indians for that matter) are good looking. People live in sterotypes. You are probably one of them.
Sridhar
PS: Shankar is an idiot! But then he is making all the right noises and sucking upto Paki a$$.

re:#23 by shammi
Gujjus in particular are very clannish. Those in US seem to think that money is all they are here for. The doctor i worked for in Chicago (before i left him in disgust) was a Gujju whose skills in neonatology were iffy but he had acquired franchises in Donot shops and was treating medicine as some kind of business. I would have admired him if he had also excelled in his profession. This profession needs a lot of dedication. This guy was woefully out of touch with the latest things in his field. I left him for greener pastures. But i also learn a bitter lesson in the process. I am not much impressed by the business acumen of Gujjus or Sindhis anymore.
Besides, Gujjus (and i suspect Sindhis) are so clannish that they think of themselves as Gujjus first and Indians last. We know of so many prosperous Gujjus but how many of them have set up charitable institutions for Indians in India that benefit whole of India and not just their own people. Not one i think.
Sridhar