Topic started by Sugrutha (@ 1cust62.tnt2.new-brunswick3.nj.da.uu.net) on Mon Jan 1 21:46:44 .
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The second millenium saw the deacy of the Indian economy. What is the third millenium going to bring us ? Why did the second millenium slip from our hands ? Do we know why ? Do we know how to get back on our feet ?

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• From: Sugrutha (@ 1cust62.tnt2.new-brunswick3.nj.da.uu.net) on: Mon Jan 1 21:51:17 EST 2001
  
  On one side the mood is upbeat - the revival of the Hindu pride, the IT success etc.
  
  http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/jan/01rajeev.htm
  
  On the other hand there is this picture painted by others, about our inability to measure up in terms of exports while China is marking up its trade surplus steadily, perhaps at the cost of India.
  
  http://www.dhan.com/news/y2k1226-jay.html
  
  What is your opinion ?
  
  
• From: Karthik Obla (@ bmt-mail.boralmti.com) on: Wed Jan 3 09:39:49 EST 2001
  
  Please read India 2020 by Abdul Kalam. There is a vision and an approach to achieve it
  
  
• From: Sugrutha (@ 1cust172.tnt5.new-brunswick3.nj.da.uu.net) on: Thu Jan 4 19:58:24 EST 2001
  
  Kartik Obla,
  
  Thanks for reccommending the book. I will certainly read it. I have the greatest respect for the person.
  
  This is not exactly relevant and I do not want to be picky and petty, but I found the following statements in one of his interviews. And I found a similar statement by AR Rahman also in one of his interviews to a Tamil weekly - I cannot recall the name. I regard both of these people as devout patriots, but why this small reservation about admitting to all those who invaded us ?
  
  "I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them."
  
  APJ Abdul Kalam in Bombay times: 13-oct issue, a chat with Pritish Nandy.
  
  
• From: Sri (@ mason.ge.com) on: Fri Jan 5 14:38:33 EST 2001
  
  sugrutha Thanx for yar link from Rediff! though it's some what fictious it's nice to read!
  
  Regarding the second article it's too is fictious but some concepts are really true in that!
  
  hope the first article be good enough for all of us!
  
  
• From: anu nair (@ 164.164.128.13) on: Wed Jan 10 11:55:42 EST 2001
  
  Of course, the truth must lie somewhere between the two...maybe depending on our own circumstances we tend to take the easy way...ie look only at those aspects that influence our lives directly.
  
  A site from me too..;-) Pretty old...yet interesting.
  http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/aug/28rvp2.htm
  
  'Our expertise in information technology will empower India. It will show how relevant we are. Previously, we were relevant only in terms of numbers. Today, we are relevant in terms of our brains. There was a time when you needed capital and research laboratories to show your skills. Today, you can display your skills on a small computer. The worldview has changed in favour of India. But again, our social progress should march in step with IT. If we don't do that, then we will be in trouble. If you have IT and an airport that resembles a mid 20th century railway terminus, then that is not good. And if Bombay grounds to a halt the day there is heavy rain, then we are not really progressing. That's regressing.'
  
  
  

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