The Indian Thread (TiT) # 14

<p>ahahaha - it just seemed unnecessary. And it reminded me of all the work I’m not doing :p</p>

<p>erm… Sonia resigns?</p>

<p>All we need is the commies to resign too and the BJP to get back to power… So we can finally have fast-track reforms</p>

<p>hahah …okey i sorta should have known… howz life there …?? with you adides and others…</p>

<p>SM</p>

<p>It’s Spring Break, I’m being a bum and I’m bored :(</p>

<p>And I should study but I don’t feel like it. :(</p>

<p>bored at princeton… whoa… well u wud study thats okey… but arent there a hundred and one things to do…
Or you have already tried everything already… </p>

<p>sounds fun and interesting…though maybe your boredom will go away next week with rolling out of the decisions… </p>

<p>SM</p>

<p>oh yeah. btw sucharita… it seeems like the CC craze wouldnt ever get over with you… one full year and still you are always… with crackling posts and everready message helps… </p>

<p>rightly said
The more things change , the more they stay the same…</p>

<p>SM</p>

<p>There’s no one here except for my roommate, my RA and me!</p>

<p>Though NYC is always an option :)</p>

<p>why so… where are evryone… internships… or back to home sweet home… ??? Well didnt u take up those…</p>

<p>Also well so what exactly are you planning to do at princeton now… engineering as u had went with planning or sumthing else now…?</p>

<p>SM</p>

<p>It’s Spring Break which is why no one is on campus.</p>

<p>I was never an engineer and I don’t think I’ll ever be one. I don’t really know what I want to do though.</p>

<p>hehe … so you enjoying raw education and princeton… but as of what i heard you have to decide within ur 1st yr over the final choice of major u wud pursue…/??</p>

<p>SM</p>

<p>nice, ur undecided - just like me :D</p>

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   The BJP did continue the process of liberalization, but again as you said it yourself, it was Rao and Singh who kickstarted the reforms in the first place. Secondly, the Congress has accelerated the reforms to an almost another level in spite of the leftists! Although people think that the communists have successfully stalled the congress from implementing reforms, its nothing more than a misconception. To stress my point, here's an excerpt from Fareed Zakaria's Newsweek article:
 "But Singh has disappointed many of his fans. They had hoped for another set of large-scale reforms, but the government has been cautious and is implementing programs that look suspiciously like another round of subsidies (programs that have had such little success in the past). These are the constraints of democracy. Singh heads a fragile coalition government without a strong mandate for economic change. He is not himself a powerful politician, depending on Mrs. Gandhi for his clout. But his quiet determination to keep moving forward—on economics, politics and foreign policy—has been underestimated. His Economic ministers are all reformers. They work within the political limits, but they work. For example, infrastructure in India is slowly getting better and will be funded through public-private partnerships. India's two major airports will be privatized and improve dramatically. Every week you read of a set of regulations that have been eased or permissions that have been eliminated. These "stealth reforms," too small to draw vigorous opposition from the unreconstructed left, add up. And India's pro-reform constituency keeps growing. The middle class is already 300 million strong. Urban India is not all of India, but it is a large and influential chunk of it. " 

(Full article at <a href=“http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/030606.html)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/030606.html)</a>.</p>

<p>And a comment about the corruption thing, if i have an option i would choose corrupted politicians over politicians who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of men and women (read riots).</p>

<p>where are you adides… huh not at princeton right now??</p>

<p>SM</p>

<p>in new york, getting my fair share of good indian food in a long time!!
and about the major choice, we have to decide our major at the end of our second year - there’s no way i can decide before that!</p>

<p>Awesome… that sounds like fun… though here we are like… blasting off ourself to death waiting for those crappy decisions… man cant they come … early… I want them</p>

<p>SM</p>

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<p>you’re no longer an ORFE major?</p>

<p>eugh… they had lobster at the dining hall today.
hehe, just a random comment :slight_smile:
sucharita, i;ll be in ny next week, we shud meet up!</p>

<p>Well Adides, with all due respect, I take what Fareed Zakaria says with a few tons of salt. He wrote a few columns sometimes ago for the Indian Express (don’t know if he still does) which were very, very clearly from an American perspective.</p>

<p>Well yes, the UPA Govt is “supposed” to have gone ahead with reforms, but none of it seems to have trickled down to the common man yet. What is quite astonishing is the Left has been so indecisive over implementation of the Common Minimum Program, which was one of their election planks.</p>

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Orfe, econ, history, politics, woody woo - any of them and the list is open for any more additions! what about u? what are you thinking??</p>

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I think that was one of the big reasons why BJP lost in the first place, wasn’t it?? None of the BJP reforms reached the poor and rural folk, that was one of the reasons why they lost. So, BJP made the ‘same’ mistake that Congress apparently is making.
But, its very difficult to balance both, economic development and uniform distribution of wealth. You have the choice of either increasing the size of the cake or you can worry about cutting it (quoting someone famous here, can’t remember who), you can’t do both at the same time. So, i think that the BJP and the Congress followed the right policy of trying to increase the cake’s size, following it up with trying to improve infrastructure and finally this should hopefully trickle down to the common man…hopefully.</p>

<p>Also, a comment about Fareed Zakaria… ofcourse he’s going to have a very american point of view, he’s one of the finest political analysts present in the US! And makes him a better source than any Indian contributor doesn’t it? His opinion would be more neutral than any Indian’s opinion, or atleast it should be if he has an ‘American’ point of view.</p>

<p>Yup . . the privatisation of the airports was a HUGE move . . that drew a lotta protests . . but kudos to the congress for getting it done. Our airports really needed it.</p>