Critique of Sabhlok's Statements on India as of Today

["Dr. Subroto Roy" <sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in>]

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>Back after 5 years in India. Major disappointment.


-- relative to what? Southern California?

>Total Corruption
-- false

total pollution.
--false

Prices are sky>high.
--false

In some areas like processed food, prices are >HIGHER than those in USA!

-- and so they might well be; one may want to read Ricardo on
comparative
advantage.

An unimaginable world
-- yet being lived in more or less happily by scores and scores of
millions
of Indians!
>
>If 50% of Indias economy was a black economy 1994,
>nearly 80% of it must be black now.
-- baseless

At this tiny and >miniscule level of development we have managed to mess

>up our land and air to make it positively dangerous
>for ourselves and our future generations.

-- this is modern economics???

>India was spinning out of control 5 years ago.
--- what is being referred to for this exaggerated metaphor?

It has >spun out of control completely now.
--- nobody in India seems to know this; those of us here are about to go
to
the polls to vote in the 13th Lok Sabha.

Yet all problems >are easily solvable
-- we await The Messiah, the Saviour, come to us from upon High, to save
us
from all evil...

if we were to apply good economic >policy
-- e.g.?

and genuine democratic management
-- after the 13th Lok Sabha is sworn in, perhaps this might be repeated
in
public.


The IPI >manifesto needs serious consideration. In its updated
>versions lies the solution to Indias pathetic plight.

-- now there is marketing for you...  are all IIMs and Management
Schools
listening?
>
>People have to discuss, debate, and arrive at a
>democratic consensus. Else our dreams of potential
>greatness or even survival will be stillborn.
>
>One critical thing we have forgotten is that as,
>development increases, urbanization will accelerate.
>Despite having many thousands of Ph.Ds. from IITs, we
>have yet to learn about:

-- yes, here at the IITs, there is concern about the PhD programs
sometimes

>
>(1) The impossibly complex concept of a straight line

-- what are we talking about here?   Non-Euclidean Geometry?


>(2) The esoteric concept of a square or a rectangular >block >

---  I am reaching for my Freud...


(3) The mysterious concept of a parking structure.


-- and my Jung


>Mohenjadarans had discovered drainage. We need to
>rediscover the concept of a drain.


>I am almost about to give up on this crazy
>conglomeration called India. Whose nightmare is this?


-- this seems to be a cry for help..

>But I believe that there is a COMPULSION, an
>imperative, for our generation to do something. Now.
>Later it WILL be too late.
>
>Calling upon all those concerned seriously with this
>pathological patient. Let us talk.



---  now that's a wish granted...


Roy's question:  given Dr Sabhlok's statements on India as of Today, are
we
wirtnessing the end of that wonderful idea called IPI?

Subroto Roy.



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