tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043138489010794057.post8315063642315524965..comments2024-03-27T15:57:09.192+05:30Comments on Urbanomics: Corporate India's wish-list is not India's reform wish-listUrbanomicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956198290294771298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043138489010794057.post-59442726879623868862013-12-30T12:24:30.187+05:302013-12-30T12:24:30.187+05:30Dear Gulzar,
Your past few posts have been intere...Dear Gulzar,<br /><br />Your past few posts have been interesting - ending the year (possibly with this post) on a note that refocuses on the narrowness of the 'vision' thing in our public debates.<br /><br />An elite that privileges an economic view can only offer suggestions that are just as bland.<br /><br />The recent elections have shown that economic concerns ( broadly about survival, in our country) are not the concerns of business. <br /><br />The FDI mantra we have been chanting does not even begin to address the gaping leakages / pilferage within our system. Calling for 'more' without calling for 'better' is self-serving.<br /><br />I think Catch 22 explains the problem / solution and its limitations better - here's a quote from Catch 22 Chapter 18<br /><br />"“‘It’s meningitis,’ he called out emphatically, waving the others back. ‘Although Lord knows there’s not the slightest reason for thinking so.’<br /> ‘Then why pick meningitis?’ inquired a major with a suave chuckle. ‘Why not, let’s say, acute nephritis?’<br /> ‘Because I’m a meningitis man, that’s why, and not an acute-nephritis man,’ retorted the colonel. ‘And I’m not going to give him up to any of your kidney birds without a struggle. I was here first.”<br /><br />End quote.<br /><br />Best Wishes for the New Year.<br /><br />regards, KP.KPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06553866275918658507noreply@blogger.com