Nehru dynasty has been awarded the maximum number of Bharata Ratna awards so far. The next one should go to the actual UPA chief for influencing Bush and the one after that to her son for all around nonaction.
I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Tunku Varadarajan for his column on the subject and more particularly his suggestion that the US President should visit India to calm the ruffled feathers of the India's political bosses on the issue of Kashmir. India has never liked any foreign interference for solving its problems with Pakistan and more particularly the Kashmir issue.As it is President Obama has hit the Indian IT professionals by imposing kerbs on the 300 odd financial companies in US from employing H1-B visa holders in place of the American laid off professionals. The most important point he has missed is that these Indian IT professionals are hired only because equivalent talented hard working Americans have never been available. The President should know that it is the US who is the loser since the Indian talent will always be used by other countries to their advantage if US refuses to utilize them.
Re: President Obama's first 100 days in office.
by Angel on Feb 19, 2009 01:32 AM
The only reason US had previously gotten labor from India was because of the cheap labor and not their expertise. I.T is not all that you guys make it out to be. It is just support work. Getting people from India and paying them 5% of what americans make while making them work long hours was a good deal for the companies and not anyone else. There are tons of qualified people in the U.S but the companies are embarrassed to pay them peanuts. Obama's decision is a good one. This will force the companies to provide more jobs in the U.S for its own people.
Re: Re: President Obama's first 100 days in office.
by Satya ss on Feb 19, 2009 03:01 AM
> I.T is not all that you guys make >it out to be. It is just support >work. Getting people from India and >paying them 5% of what americans
One part of IT is what you describe and even that part is not just about brain dead work. One has to understand the technology, process and work hard to resolve issues with intense pressure. If US was doing the IT support then i am sure US would have lost many years worth of innovation by doing it itself. There are plenty of Indian designers, coders, testers etc and most of the jobs involve food IQ and expertize. So sorry that i wont buy your argument of "cheap" labour. With quality comes price. And i dont think there are tons of qualified ppl in US to do the same. I do agree there are bright people in US but IT is multi Billion dollar business and US will just not be capable of supporting all its customers with US employess. While the inital drive was to reduce cost it slowly became a need.
Watch movie Obama Deception exposing the Bush agenda and will approach the Obama Administrations plans from the same non-partisan point of view looking past the frontman in the White House to the real owners on Wall Street, in the Bilderberg group and at the Federal Reserve.
Obama's victory made me happy and his speeches and policies are realistic. I had perception,that correction will help globally and above all A black president in US would help for equality and humanity all over the world. The first impression has changed me as he can change your hunger with uppuma only . Bush got $150billion order from India which will not be worth of $10billion. If Obama visits India, he will get $300 billion order. American presidents are very good super sales representatives by giving Rs50/=aid or gift and get $5billion order. Obama is colored in white as former. He thinks how to conquer Afghanistan as Bush did in Iraq. He is no longer black and he need not worry or equality and humanity.
If Obama really interested to develop US and control terrorism, he should have touched African nations for his market, not India or China. He can not change US bureaucrats. Obama is hosting with Uppuma.
This feels like something dished out by some school boy, Obama should 'this' and Obama should 'that'.
Obama is a mature and pragmatic person. He is cold shouldering India, not because of ideological hangups / dogma, but rather because he doesn't see us as important either economically (Japan & Germany) or strategically (The rogue state across the border). I don't think he takes China too seriously, a bunch of workers, grouped together, are a bunch of workers, neither scientists nor businessmen nor artisans.
This world is made of real people. Should India be treated like Germany and Japan, an 'always- consequential' country, because some NRI somewhere has access to put opinions in the print media?
I'm an Indian and proud to be so, and a successful person, an achiever. I feel, India should treat the rogue state across the border, like it needs to be treated, a distraction, a low quality street thug and nothing more. We must aggressively build alliances, chiefly economic, with a host of nations globally, especially France to keep the 'Fish & Chips' in their place, improve our infrastructure and keep our costs low, especially real estate costs that are making us uncompetitive.
Re: Meandering - Mealy Mouthed Article
by David Dak on Feb 21, 2009 01:01 PM
Indian are bunch of slums and everybody in the world knows it. Indian are bunch of day-dreamers and everybody in its neighburs knows it. Keep dreaming, my indian friends.
Re: Re: Meandering - Mealy Mouthed Article
by Varun Shekhar on Feb 25, 2009 11:49 PM
David Dak, you have a slummy brain, and now everyone knows it. Jealous, petty, silly and shallow. And probably a follower of communist China or militarist Pakistan.
The problem now is that India is set for elections pretty soon and there really is no point in Obama coming now to India with no certainity of who will form the next govt. here. And given UPA's abysmal record on national security, I doubt if the Congress will be back in the saddle. My guess is the US will wait to see the new govt's policy and then maybe commit to his visit. Obama now has a delicate balancing act to perform between foreign policy and the economy and he has pretty much outsourced foreign policy to Biden and Clinton and the special envoys. He is going to be judged by his influence on the economy alone in 2012 not by his improved relations with India which couldn't matter one bit with the nearly 3.5 million jobless now in the US. He is getting pumelled for a weekend trip to his own homewtown and for two policy trips to Indiana and Florida with the MSM howling saying he is wasting time. I really doubt a trip to India would do him any good now or till late 2010. It's economy, economy ,economy now for him. And whethere we like it or not, India to US will always be clubbed with Pakistan and given Obama's recent deployment of 17000 troops last evening to the Afghan-Pak border, the US will always continue to dangle Kashmir in front of Pakistan for co-operation in the Northwest provinces. it's a carrot and stick policy US will pursue for a while now.
