About Maoists and Indian State

Two differing scenarios:

1. Pukistan sends its army to fight terrorists in its western areas of Waziristan etc. They are Pukistan citizens. They have even been bred and armed by Pukistan establishment. But they are destabilizing the state and are a threat to its integrity and existence and so its army is sent to fight to eliminate them. Pretty obvious and logical, correct!

2. India faces threats from Maoists. Which are also its citizens, Which are a threat to India's integrity and existence and are bent upon destabiliazing the country. But we debate whether the helicopters which would rescue the dead and wounded security forces personnel could retaliate if they are attacked.
Yes Chidambram is talking tough. Yes Shivraj Patil has been sent away rightly. But still there is a hesitation.

Sure there are a lot of sympathisers in the Indian establishment questioning the use of force, but so is the case in Pukistan.

Why does Pukistan more decisive in this and India is not?

Water on Moon by Chandrayan - 1 mission

Amazing achievement.
Proud that an Indian mission has resulted in this discovery.
Provides motivation to do our work even better.

Snub to Indian media by Cricket team in SA

Wonderful. Especially the reader's comments following the article.
Team India continues to snub media

If the media continues to cultivate people as demi gods and glorify them after every success, small or big, and the next day vilify them after just one failure, then this is treatment that they definitely should be getting.

As it is, the Indian media has become even less credible.

Another Indian Press gaffe

So the first 'Duranto' run completed from Sealdah to Delhi.

Times of India reported that Duranto was delayed by 50 minutes. Link
Dainik Jagran that Duranto was before . (No link available but was it in the newspaper).

So much for our fourth estate's credibility.

Swine Flu aka H1N1

So the media created hype and panic around Swine flu (I will say the word Swine and if am politically incorrect then so be it) is finally subsiding and people are getting back to reasonable levels of behavior.

Isnt that wierd in a coountry where one does not thinktwice before behaving and driving dangerously.

Or crossing the expressway on foot between high speed and heavy traffic, even though a zebra crossing / subway / over-bridge may be just 10 metres away.

Or riding a bike on a very busy and dangerous highway without helmet.

Or ramming one's bike between two trucks on a highway trying to overtake

And there is such a great deal of panic over a 'flu' !!!!!

Isnt it wierd that in a country where the total number of deaths due to TB would be much more than those because of 'Swine flu'.

Maybe because Swine flu is a disease of the rich or affluent as that class is the most affected (travel abroad, bring it back, afffect the social circle of the class) and that is why media is putting so much 'attention' to it whereas TB is a disease of the poor and so they just dont care.

I have actually stopped watching any news channel for the past month now. It is getting ridiculuos now.

And lets accept it. Indian media is extremely irresponsible and untrustworthy. Next time there is any 'Scoop' or a 'Sting' ... have your doubts.

Re: Why did India fall behind West

So I got a response to this which said "Industrial Revolution". The main question is what made Industrial Revolution happen in the West before it did in India even though India was not far behind in terms of technology (Tipu Sultan's army invented rockets).

Well to me the main point of inflection was invention of the Printing Press which enabled thoughts, ideas and learnings to be duplicated and replicated far and wide whereas in India learning and knowledge passing was oral. This meant that in India one had to be close to a learned person to be able to develop intellect. Moreover because things were not written down or recorded, they kept getting lost throughout. Human mind does have its limitations.

In the West one the printing press got developed and replication of knowledge became easy, that would have spawned creating people far and wide to build on the available knowledge. There are intelligent, creative and hard-working people everywhere.

The internet is doing the same now and that is enabling India to start catching up.

Thats my thought. Ideas / comments?

Why did India fall behind West

Getting to the blog after a long while.

So lets hear the thoughts... Till 1700s India was ahead of the west in terms of economy, GDP etc. What according to you was the primary reason why India started falling behind the West?

Lets hear.