China and Olympics

3.3 Billion people, if not the whole world are hooked on to their screens blaring scenes from Beijing, where the world famed, Olympics Games, 2008, is running with full vehemence. Restaurants, Diners, Hotels and even corporate addresses are victims of the so-called Olympics Fever and why should that be abnormal – when the stunning display of inauguration ceremony cast a magnetizing and a jaw-dropping effect in the on the millions of watchers all around the globe.  

The huge contemporary Olympics village, which stands in the dimension of a huge-Chinese legendary dragon, took many years and came up big at a cost of $40 Billion+, the most expensive and extravagant arrangement in Olympic History. 

Just a couple of days before the startup, the Chinese were taken aback by the stubborn haze-formation which stood above the village trying to distort that glitzy-picture, the China wanted to portray. This demanded an additional $13 Billion to be pumped in, which in turn formulated a pretty view which was much projected. 

To make sure the opening open was rain-free, Chinese send around 1,104 customized rockets to moderate the weather and to root out the terror fears, the officials appointed 500,000+ paramilitary personnel in and around the locus of the Bird’s Nest Stadium, a huge stadium with the capacity to hold 91,000 audiences and which got that name from its distinct shape of a bird’s nest. 

To make sure the Poverty visibility status was 0% in Beijing, it veiled the surrounding slum-areas with special wall with, the main slogan “One World, One Dream”, pasted on them at the so called “fun and Brighter” side of China. Below is a picture to support my argument.  

So people and critics even argue that many events in the Chinese Olympics (Day 1), were trying to pull wool over the eyes, for instance, they state that the lil’ small girl who rhymed a Chinese poem did nothing but move her lips as everything was pre-recorded. They move on in their “Questioning Spree” by also mentioning that the fire-works, for the viewers behind their TV sets, were edited and made more glorious. 

What went against the truth is certainly known by the people, who’re the organizers, a support for the general fact that Chinese market is filled with duped product.  Even at our place, when people look at something with a “Made in China” label, they think twice. Maybe that was the reason it was compelled to make the next generation of labels, “Made in PRC*”.

But, what can’t be denied is the reality that China is really in a velocity trying to get a top position at the “List of the Powerful and Competitive Countries”, a move which is required of India if it wants to achieve the 2020 dream, which would be like “putting-into-action” the words of a wise person who remarked, “Get influenced by the good actions and not the bad ones” 

 * stands for People’s Republic of China

Derivation which proves “Women=Problems”

Hello, Fellas

Out of an extreme yearning to post this one on my blog, I broke my resolution which was not to post anything in this month of June so you guys better appreciate it. Gud Luk! 😉

 

Something that every amateur blogger is infected with: “Stats” Syndrome

Hi, there

I took sum time out of my xtremely busy schedule (ya’ right), and posted this article up here.

So here it goes … Ever since I updated my Blog about 15 days ago, the traffic turning in has been certainly incredibly astonishing. Getting an average of 266.8 per day is really weird because there’s nothing in here which is worth giving a memento or something, but that’s actually good for me as I can consider the idea of signing up for the Google Adsense Program and can start earning. (if it really works!!!)

I presume there are certain factors which cause some amount of surge in the incoming traffic levels to any  blog or website and they were as follows:

1)    keeping its face updated with anything, even adding a new link will do (In my case, I keep on changing the theme)

2)    Submittal of your URL address to some of the top search engines. (This is something I did on the very first day of blogging as I was getting crazy of my stats…Mo’s article, ‘Lifecycle of a Blogger’ is true after all!)

3)    writing about something which is talked about every now and then (in my case the post, ‘Hello Kitty for Men!’ was the most attracting one)

4)    Of course, reminding everyone in your contact list (of your brain) about your website or blog. (I even pinned a paper onto the corridor NOTICE BOARD, featuring my blog’s address, https://ivitamins.wordpress.com, To my horror It was ripped out the next day by some moderator.)

5)    Always keep testing the ways you can increase traffic and be on the lookout for innovative pointers.

And these bullets down here are the factors which can cause an decline in the amount of attraction (in kgs or…):

1)    By posting articles and  writings that the aggressive and immoral,

2)    By uploading certain damage-causing elements like spywares, malwares, etc.

3)    This list can go on forever more…

I’ll logout for the rest of the day.

New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends

By Vauhini Vara,
May 13, 2008

(If you are still relying on Google to snoop on your friends, you are behind the curve.)

Armed with new and established Web sites, people are uncovering surprising details about colleagues, lovers and strangers that often don’t turn up in a simple Internet search. Though none of these sites can reveal anything that isn’t already available publicly, they can make it much easier to find. And most of them are free.

Wendy Bounds on when venture-capitalists hire spies. Read her latest post and share your thoughts.

Zaba Inc.’s ZabaSearch.com turns up public records such as criminal history and birthdates. SpockNetworks Inc.’s Spock.com and Wink Technologies Inc.’s Wink.com are “people-search engines” that specialize in digging up personal pages, such as social-networking profiles, buried deep in the Web. Spokeo.com is a search site operated by Spokeo Inc., a startup that lets users see what their friends are doing on other Web sites. Zillow Inc.’s Zillow.com estimates the value of people’s homes, while the Huffington Post’s Fundrace feature tracks their campaign donations. Jigsaw Data Corp.’s Jigsaw.com, meanwhile, lets people share details with each other from business cards they’ve collected — a sort of gray market for Rolodex data.

Some people have come across dirt on their loved ones without even looking for it. Doug Orlyk, a 42-year-old librarian in Bensenville, Ill., recently turned to ZabaSearch to find his new boyfriend’s address so that he could send him a card. Instead, he found out that the boyfriend had been lying about his age — he was 43 years old, not 35 as he had claimed to be on the dating site where Mr. Orlyk had met him. “I thought, ‘You’re a liar! You’re older than I am!,'” Mr. Orlyk recalls. His new relationship ended soon thereafter.

The Looo…ooongest Words

Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine:

Pros: Chemical name of longest known protein

Letters: 189,819 (Phew!)

Lopado…pterygon:

Pros: Used by a Greek Author in his work.

Letters: 183

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamatea-     pokaiwhenuakitanatahu:

Pros: Longest officially recognized place name.

Letters: 85

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-                                 coniosis: 

Pros: Longest word in a major dictionary

Letters: 45

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism: 

Pros: Longest non-coined word in a major dictionary

Letters: 30

Floccinaucinihilipilification:

Pros: Longest nontechnical word

Letters: 29

Antidisestablishmentarianism: 

Pros: Longest non-coined and nontechnical word

Letters: 28

Honorificabilitudinitatibus:

Pros: Longest word in Shakespeare’s works 

Letters: 27

 

 

 

Honk Honk, Make Row – Here cums NANO

Tata Nano, the world smallest car, had made its maiden visit outside the curtain. Its sleek and attractive design cast a jaw-dropping spell on the watchers. People were amazed beyond words as the car looks like an everyday car and costs almost a fraction of the car prices in India.

What else do ya want? I guess its gonna be a blessing for the ones with modest incomes. People in their hundreds made way into the stall and shelled out bucks for this car.

Priced @round US$2500, the all new TATA venture is a serious HIT! Its 10 feet long (smaller than the previous smallest Indian car, the Maruti Suzuki 800) and has got: room for 5 people (skinny ones), a mileage of 22km/liter, a 624 cc engine that gives 33 bhp.

 The VERDICT is out by the Indian public – “This car is just the thing, the 2 wheeler-obsessed Indian people desired”.

This release of Nano marked the beginning of a race by the other motor giants to get their “Nanobreed” on roads. TATA plans to put 10 million Nano’s on the roads in 5 years. Nano hunger has gripped not only the Indians but also the Americans who are also in need for fuel-efficient cars.

But first, I wud suggest the Indian government to implement the idea of creating world-class roads ASAP (As soon as possible).

The Green Peace dudes are alaready on the roads in their huge numbers armed with slogans and a determination to eliminate  the pollution-causing stuff. They argue that the Nano will cause pollutions in the already heavily polluted India, to soar much to fatal levels.

Get set to receive, TATA Nano, The Most Wanted!

Oh! wait a minute! What do we see? … We’ve got competition already,

Renault has teamed up with Mahindra to create a US$3000 budget car and it looks better off than the humble Nano.

Below is an inside view of the Renault Mahindra YENI. Simply Stunning! 😉

Without the Steering Wheel

Visualize having a coffee and reading a newspaper whilst commuting at 250km/hr all by yourself. Yep! That will definitely be possible – in a decade’s time. Researchers @ GM’s R&D (Research and Development) Unit said that they predict these driverless cars to be out in around 2018. The plan is to use an inexpensive computer chip and an antenna to link vehicles equipped with radar-based cruise control, lane change warning devices, electronic stability control, satellite global positioning systems and digital maps. It may be a boon for the physically challenged. So what I saw in the movie “i-Robot” is actually factual: People with hands free gadgets: mobiles, cars, doors, computers, machines, etc.

Prototypes are already on the roads and automobile companies are racing each other, like usual, to get their one on the stage. The US Department of Defense even held a race to test these prototypes. About 30 teams each with their ‘Driverless Car’ participated in the contest. Some teams faced an early “knock out” as their vehicle did some serious mistakes: some crashed into buildings while one of them mysteriously pulled into a house’s carport and parked itself.

Duh! All by themselves! Bingo! This is one more drawback on the list: “If the car feels tired, it’ll take a rest, no matter what the owner wants!” Phew, we can’t allow a car to dictate. My friend once told me, ‘If ya keep on adding advanced stuff into the car, it merely becomes a complex box’. Thatz what all the cars are coming down to.

No doubt, no more driving but commanding your vehicle to follow orders will be great, but surely it has its own disadvantages. If they plan to use ‘in-built’ computer systems for these intelligent vehicles, then there may be a possibility of them getting infected with viruses, Trojans, Spyware, etc just like any other present-day computer. And the rest of the surviving “earthlings” will witness the unleashing of a new breed of Hackers: Automobile hackers. I’m sure if they are prepared to come out with these space-age cars, they must hav, at the same time, thought of the anti-virus software too.

Time for Symantec and McAfee to get cracking in going “off the grid” to create the first Anti-virus for Cars. 😉

We have predicted the possible advent of Driverless Cars, So whatz next … Flying Cars or Airplane Cars!

“Couple of Stuffs for the Couple”

If I pick up any guy off the streets @ random and ask him the following 5 questions, this is how he’s going to respond.

Q. Did you know that Princess Diana died in a Car Accident?
A. Of course

Q. Did you know that Prince Charles married his new-love, Camilla Bowles Parker?
A. Yes

Q. Did you know that they got married in a famous Ball-Room?
A. Yeah

Q. Did you know that Prince Charles had two sons while she had two daughters?
A. Grrr! Yep.

Q. Did you know what she got in presents?
A. Ye…err, no.

He may very well be among the sort of people who are unaware of the answer to that particular question.

And that’z what I’m going to enlighten ya’ll about in this article of mine. Here it goes…

Prince Charles and Camilla Bowles Parker who were married in a glitzy and an attractive wedding ceremony in London are probably the richest and the most celebrated “Ol’-Couple”. And, what do you give a couple who seem to have almost everything? The answer is: Jewels, Designer Carpets, an Arabian Stallion – and a shopping bag.

The presents were among the 247 individual items the royal couple received from foreign dignitaries and representatives of the public on official tours they made in the last 12 months. They prob’ly got the best gifts from the Gulf States which included: a necklace, a brooch and a belt, another necklace from the Qatari family and four glass bottles of perfumes. She was also presented with two black abayas – full-length robes and veils worn by women. Another set of glittering presents came from Bahrain consisting of a costly watch, a silver box with a pearl inset while the couple was also given the “Jewel-encrusted Ceremonial Arabic sword”.

On another trip to Kuwait, Prince Charles received another extravagant watch and a pistol from the commandant of Kuwait’s Military Staff College. An unnamed dude bought him an Arabian Stallion – the second he has received in many years.
He also was given a Whirling Dervish hat from the mayor of Konya on a visit to Turkey in November.

Some gifts were similar: the couple received six dhow models, a couple of carpets, 68 books and three walking canes. Other Presents were less “Bling-Bling”: on a trip to the United States in January they got a signed American football, two baseball caps, a shopping Bag, Chutney, maple syrup and some honey.

The total cost of the presents remains undisclosed.  (Its value might be in Billions of $$)

And Then Silence…

Ya’ll must hav heard of the tragic death of the Glitzy “would-be” Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. Well, that one was expected. She was from the glamorous and a very high-profile family, The Bhutto’s, also called the “Gandhis” of Pakistan. Almost all of the members of the family faced death by unnatural means. One thing is worth sharing, “Zulfiqar Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto were heavily involved in politics and died because of it”. (Politics: Defined by many as a “Silent Killer”) My Dad once told me that to b’cum a Politian one must be cursed by many. (Meaning becoming a Politian is the worst thing that can happen to a person.) I jus pray that The Almighty give some sense to these “POLITICAL GAMERS” who to gain fame and success ruin others life and property.

Note: This post does not represent my affection for politics but it shows my hatred for it.

Whoosh … Here Comes China

Ya’ll mus be familiar with the fact that China is, arguably the World’s Largest Manufacturer of almost all kinds of bits and pieces and that it is major global player. It has invaded approximately all the manufacturing Fields: Cars, Trains, Toys, Computers, Clothing and many more. You jus name it, they have it. During the years China has evolved into what people call “a fully-developed country”.

In October, they came up with the largest LED screen and probably they are striving hard to conquer all the possible superlative titles. So If that wasn’t enuf, it made its way into the stage which was previously ruled by Canada’s Bombardier and Brazil’s Embraer.
It came with its own version of an “AIRPLANE”, The Flying Phoenix, a sleek model of an aircraft with two engines positioned at the back. It’s yet gud news for the booming Chinese economy, especially for the Chinese Flag carrier as most of its vehicles in the fleet are aging.

Now this leaves the rest of the world to wrestle a great question “IS China really going to be a Superpower?”  With its current velocity, I guess yes.  Last Year its GDP was around $10.2 Trillion way ahead than India’s “dwarf” GDP, which stood nearby $4.2 Trillion. And Yeah, Yesterday as I was going through the pages of my favorite newspaper, ARAB NEWS, I came across the fact that China had even created its first Bullet Train, the third country in the world to create its own Bullet Train.

I suppose in the near future, People instead of migrating towards the west will think twice, because China’s getting attractive. WoW!

Way to Go! China! 😉

A cigarette

Defined as: A stick with a flame @ one end and a fool @ the other.

 

So, Here’s a deal, if you’re a smoker, THROW THE STICK AND GRAB SOME LIFE!

Tech-Infestation

 In the IT crazy India, one can see a lot of computer ‘n’ IT related stuff a plenty. I myself spotted many places where motherboards and hard disks were being sold on sidewalks and in one other instant I came across a cameraman using the BLUETOOTH technology to transfer photos he snapped to a printer nearby. This influx of technology is now a very common sight in India. So, if the Indian underprivileged class is not going bigger in terms of currency they certainly are in terms of Technology. Keeping this in mind, these sights: a beggar using a website to collect alms into his PayPal account, a mere cart person (Bandi-Wala) using a Blackberry, an unlearned man instead of placing his thump on a sheet to give his impression giving out a flash drive urging the authorities to chck his e-signature, etc are not very far.

Up there is a future view of the Indian roads and it depicts about the progress of India in the Tech-Industry. Computers and Gadgets would be so common and cheap in India that they will no longer be sold in Retail Shops, instead they’ll be carried around on carts!

$8,000-per-gallon printer ink leads to antitrust lawsuit

A Boston man has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing hardware maker HP and office supply retailer Staples of colluding to inflate the price of printer ink cartridges in violation of federal antitrust law. According to the suit, HP allegedly paid Staples $100 million to refrain from selling inexpensive third-party ink cartridges, although the suit doesn’t make it clear how plaintiff Ranjit Bedi arrived at that figure.

For most printer companies, ink is the bread and butter of their business. The price of ink for HP ink-jet printers can be as much as $8,000 per gallon, a figure that makes gas-pump price gouging look tame. HP is currently the dominant company in the printing market, and a considerable portion of the company’s profits come from ink.

The printer makers have been waging an all-out war against third-party vendors that sell replacement cartridges at a fraction of the price. The tactics employed by the printer makers to maintain monopoly control over ink distribution for their printing products have become increasingly aggressive. In the past, we have seen HP, Epson, Lenovo and other companies attempt to use patents and even the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in their efforts to crush third-party ink distributors.

The companies have also turned to using the ink equivalent of DRM, the use of microchips embedded in ink cartridges that work with a corresponding technical mechanism in the printer that blocks the use of unauthorized third-party ink. Adding insult to injury, most printers are lying, filthy ink thieves, according to a recent study, misreporting that they are low on ink when they are not.

Bedi’s suit asks for unspecified damages and an injunction barring the two companies from engaging in anticompetitive business practices.

Courtesy:  arstechnica.com

Sickzones

As I go out almost everyday with my new bike (bicycle), the famous GOLF Maxima, I cum across many strange thingy in town. Sometimes I discover new places: Eat outs, All-in-one Stores, Veggie Marts, etc but sometimes I approach weird places like one instant I bumped into a place which for Indians looked like India, for Pakistanis looked like PakiLand, for Bangladesis (Desis) looked like BanglaLand … Quite Amazingly people here had all they can ask for > Beetle Leaves, Hyd. Biryani, Bangali Fish, Pakistani Sweets and kebabs.

It was a bit awkward feeling thought, for us, b’cuz of the fact that they never took their eyes of me and Cycling Crew plus behaved like they new saw the decent world @ the other end of our peaceful Industrial town, Jubail. They jus simply stand on the road regardless of the incoming traffic and chatter loudly in their terrible dialects, chewing the Beetle Leaves, spitting down their “spent” leaves and staring @ everyone who is not amongst them. We even caught them on the lens wearing Sheets around their legs and vests around their bellies.

Sometimes I encountered with more bizarre places loaded with these subcontinent expatriates and which also seemed like a safe-haven for over stayers.
And, in this very zone, we saw all those posters and Bill-boards filled with spelling Mistakes. Following are some of the errors which were discovered by our exploring ‘n’ cycling team:

1) Equapment
2) Cattering Services
3) Comertial and Advertising Agency
4) Bakry
5) Hair Cut Sallon
6) Shoping Center
7) Cumputer Solutions
8) Indian Restorant
9) Shopers Place

Those were the ones I found in the “Subcontinent” Hotspot.
And here sum too:

10) Mans Toilet
11) The Brost House
12) Masterpece
13) Tailer Shop
14) Photcopy Here

Oops! Totally forgot to mention this; Guess What! We even found tens if not hundreds of fake brands representing top products. Here are a few of these counterfeit names:

1)  Panasafe (for Panasonic)
2) Radu (for RADO)
3) Unileven (for UNILEVER)
4) CAB (for CATERPILLAR)
5) Gamestation
6) P5P (for SONY PSP)
7)  Adibos (for Adidas)

…

And thousands of Pirated CD’s coming in n out of the subcontinent Flea Market.

Taking into account my Discovery Skills and a distinctive hatred for an ill ‘n’ immodest society, I consider myself to be eligible to apply in an agency which chcks and corrects all these social gaffes!

Trendz…

In my 365.25 approx. dayz of readin an’ understandin blogs, newspapers, articles, posts…, I’ve cum to a conclusion that mos’ of the bloggers (duh, not all!!) follow a particular theme for when postin articlez. Then, the’re more inclined to postin in agreement to the blog theme. The themes may only restrict their wits to only think, construe and put pen to paper, only selected articles. Likewise, writers and poets too follow a suit.

Perhaps, it might be the feelin of bein dissimilar to the other bloggin competitors or maybe because of their “wanna-be” nature.

To prop up my second opinion, lemme giv ya’ll an paradigm of my ‘opposite of foe!!”, . He is indeed a real, big, supernatural, extraordinary, astonishin chap, who probably think only about the IT all 24X7. When he cum’s across a guy who is willin to listen to him, he launches his IT blah, blah, blah…outta his “oral cavity”. He once was very pissed off @ me, for != not listen his story =, about overclockin the graphics cards. I totally do NOT oppose his continually lectures about computers, but whos gonna pay attention to somethin ur interest rates @ at a moderate level? I sit next to this guy an’ now he’s in a “CODE RED” mode with me, but the other ‘Charles Babbages’ in my classspace respect him a lot. I named him “Binary Agent” and probabaly the entire school knows him as “THE HACKER”. While hez not from the “i-mind” sort, people crack hilarious stories against him.

Now, this fella is one of the many men who restrict themselves, interests, desires and hobbies to only selected subjects…and there are many who have the same ‘gene’. This is one of the many factors why many people don’t get lured towards majority of the blogs in spite of they bein hosted on top domains.

Moral: A lil’ bit of twist of evrythin, wudn’t mess it all up!

India Growth?? I don’t think so…

Las’ month wen I waz cleared of round 1 of the debatin team selection, I was applauded n waz given a slip containin the topic I had to prepare for the next round, which was planned to be a month after the day I won the former. To my amazement, I got a topic which I knew all books wud contain, all magazines wud publish, all blogs wud post, all websites wud make public…The topic was:

“INDIA IS AN EMERGING SUPERPOWER”

I was quite content n exited about the subject I had to speak. I was full of knowledge regarding this topic, cuz I talk “AGAINST” the Indian growth all 24/7. I argue that the Indian growth is only in the media cuz the western lobby trya…blah, blah, blah. Considering the fact that I had to speak the “cons” of the previous topic, I waz determined to score in this one too…until they, the co-coordinators, rang off declaring that I was supposed to go “for” the motion. I waz totally dumbfounded by this, exclamation! How can I speak anything for this topic? How can I even score points? Where m I supposed to get the matter from?

…not from Neptune!! Certainly!

I came home feelin very weak, carrying the heavy virtual burden and came bombing down on the drawing room couch n soon dozed off. Zzzz

The evening I woke up, I still had that non-patriotic feelin in me. But, somehow I had to be patriotic (@ least for sum days) to go forward. It seemed fine for sum reason. Maybe cuz my financial consultant cousin, Mo, wud help me out like he did before or maybe I had Google® within my reach. Well, I tried checkin out the latter first. I hit in the address box:

http://www.google.com/

…then, I typed in the search box the subject that I was presented (I waz patriotic for now). After I waited for sum 4 seconds, the search engine came up with my results. To my horror, I saw what I expected. Every line, save 2 or 3, had a negative attitude for my subject. I basically wanted sum pro’s so that I cud speak sumthin @ the venue, but what I had here were couple of lines explainin me not to go for supporting the fact that India was all-geared up to b’cum a superpower. I knew this fact wud hav less support. So, I decieded to quit the browser n carry out with my math assignment that day.

Week Later, I got a call frm my friend concerning my progress. I frankly told him that it was “NIL”. I told him what I really felt like pronouncin on the head-teacher’s face…”I QUIT frm the debate thingy”. This shook him as well and I told my problem. He then, unexpectedly, advised me not to go for the second round. When asked why, he replied that I ‘d b losin 5-6hrs per day for 2 wks. Upon hearin this, my strong quitttin desire turned concentrated (pH 0)LOL. This thing was, for me, way expensive than the Microsoft’s New Surface computer.

So I made my final decision…TO QUIT!

Let, me tell ya guys why I don’t feel like speakin for the motion, not jus cuz I hated India, but cuz India is actually not proceedin in fully right direction to emerge as a superpower. I’ve got some thin here to clear ur confusion:

Read out what other feel about India being a superpower. (found on a debate conducted by bbc.co.uk)

I came to the United States from India when I was three and a half. I’ve visited the country a few times since, and one thing I have noticed is how each and every time I go to India there is tangible economic improvement. It surprises me because the wealth generated is in spite of widespread political corruption, poor infrastructure, red tape at every level of business, sometimes militant labor unions, and inadequate social institutions. It gives an indication of the country’s immense potential, and obviously it also presents the long journey to unleash that potential. I believe that as the economy continues to grow and the middle class broadens, the debate for more liberalization and better governance will grow. In effect, I hope economic growth will force better governance, and better governance will feed more economic growth.
SV, NYC, USA

Indian culture is centuries old and is bound-up in caste-oriented thinking. Until the caste system is destroyed (including changing people’s last names which designate caste affiliation) there will be little opportunity and justice for the very poor. The “higher” castes will continue to prosper and the lower castes will continue to live in poverty. Percent increases in GDP and average income will reflect the progress of the well off, not the vast numbers of poor.
Michael, California, USA

I think the biggest problem which is holding India back is lack of social infrastructure. India today is a big emerging power in the Information Technology sector thanks to its limited educational system, which is not available to everybody. Still half of the population is unable to read or write. If India wants to really prosper in a healthy way it will have to find ways to distribute the benefits of development evenly in the society. Population can be capital but also a hindrance if not educated, healthy etc.
Rajesh, Ranchi

Corruption is the biggest problem in India. Huge amounts are spent on infrastructure and it will be a mess till there is some accountability. The average person is just trying to survive, they really don’t care if the country becomes a superpower or not. My main worries during the day are how long will there be a power outage. How much will the cop extract from me. How many bumps on the road do I have to endure and will there be water in my house tonight. I pay taxes and I don’t know where all the money goes, so don’t talk of being a superpower. It’s just a topic for people to discuss when they drive by me in their air conditioned cars.
Abhi, Pune, India

The superpower status for India is an unwanted title. With all its force and efforts, India still needs to do a lot to improve its rural infrastructure. In the field of education, India is surely a role model with its variety of institutions for studies in many subject fields to show the path for other developing countries.
C Sachidananda Narayanan, Tirunelveli, India

The development and growth pace of India is fast enough. But what we need to be changed is a bit of political structure and almost all the politicians. As I see we are lacking in the leaders from each provinces. We have good leaders on top like our president and prime minister, but what about the other politicians, parliament members and small party leaders? I think we need to have proper rules to be implemented by election commissions, like no mafia/crooks should be allowed. No individual with a single police case.
Parthiv Shah, Baroda, India

The real problem of Indian economy is improper administration of the taxing system. Government and fiscal policy makers should be strict on people on who are evading taxes. Economic policy should concentrate more on social welfare.
Sibi Joseph, Manchester, UK

The biggest problem which India faces today is a growing need for infrastructure amidst its growing economy. Corruption and population outburst are two other major concerns. Unfortunately there is a perception in India that people can get away with doing just about anything. Everybody needs to understand that chances of making it to the club of developed nations are bleak with this much of corruption. It’s time our political parties act responsibly.
Indraneel Chowhdury, Charlotte, USA/India

India cannot be a super power until the poor can afford food and clean water. A country which cannot handle common mans problem cannot become a super power nor for that matter can be called as a developing country.
Naga Shakelli, New York, USA

The number of issues concerning every Indian is humungous. We have poor sanitation and the quality of drinking water is bad. There is pollution and economic disparity is widespread and increasing. Literacy is pathetic in some of the northern states but improving handsomely in the southern states. Agriculture is monsoon dependent, which means more than 50% of the Indian population is monsoon dependent. Infrastructure is abysmal and the government is stumbling at every step. India might face the severest of hardships but an average Indian would still be smiling.
Sayeed, Bangalore, India

India currently has the potential to regain its place in history as an influential international economic power, but the question must be asked, “at what cost?” Before India can achieve the aforementioned status, it must improve the situation of those whose voices are not always heard: the poor, the women, and those people that rely on the natural environment for a living. As an American, I see my country’s development, historically, as lacking the foresight to pace its development with the condition of its people. This time India can choose to copy the mistakes of the United States in its development, or it can learn from them to ensure that all of its citizens reap the benefits of development.
Rachel, Toledo, USA

The mos’ Moneyed guy in Pitiable INDIA!!

Is the gossip goin around here about Mukesh Ambani becoming the richest man in world accurate? Well, I waz jus surfin around online wen I came across a website screenin that famed Indian tycoon, Mukesh Ambani is worth a whooping US$63.2 billion, overtaking the celebrated Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates who is now worth US$62.29 Billion. I was stunned beyond measure, cuz of the fact that India, jus 4 decades ago used to breathe with the aid of USA and is still the country listed as the mos’ loaned country.

Guess itz due to the recent high Oil Prices, [As high as US$92.2 a barrel] by which, Reliance Industries, primarily related to the Oil sector, mus’ hav gained a great deal. I consider this weird cuz India is considered as one of the mos’ poor nations n has its 25-30% children malnourished.

This gap between the rich n the poor is gonna increase unless the government, the high-class, the local society steps to root this menace n filth out of the INDIAN SCENE. Now this Ambani dude probably earns about US$280 per sec. while sum people don’t even make a rupee in the same time. The rich get richer while the poorer get poorer.

I hope Mr. Mukesh Ambani understands this n uses his fraction, if not half, of his fortune for a gud cause, so as the other “Top-Cheese” in the country.