Economic freedom will come from jobs.....and jobs will come from manufacturing, industries, infrastructure,ease of doing business etc....
The opposition must realize that jobs will come practical changes in Land Bill, GST, labour laws, and by promoting manufacturing, industrial corridors etc...
Also promoting partial privatization and technology, closure of heavily loss making public sector units must be encouraged.....
Re: Industries, Manufacturing
by Rakesh Dandekar on Aug 18, 2015 02:17 PM
Dear Mr. Ashok Kumar will u please let us know how your logic will clear about land acquisition, GST, as per my knowledge GST this amount will collect by cnetral govt and give some shares to state excheque. No. 2 land acquisition - what exactly this I dont know because this matter came vigorously when new govt come in to power. Will you or any one clarify then only we come to know how 10% GDP will from this two bills. Other manufacturing and labor laws. as regards lab our law must me improve and minimum wages should be Rs.10K for unskilled labour and Rs.15K for skilled. We have at least stop criticizing one each other and give moral support to PM for improving this nation.
I think we lose sight of the fact that that what we consider "good" has actually changed with time, even during the last 50 years.
At the time before the green revolution, the main health problem was not obesity or over-nutrition, it was a problem of not getting ENOUGH out of traditional methods, and India was looking at a future filled with hunger. In that situation, no one can fault Dr.Borlaug for trying to improve wheat yields, or of Indian administrators for applying his research findings. At that time, the pressing health issue was malnutrition, affecting everybody in the near future.
It is NOW, that we have the luxury of noticing that overnutrition has health problems; and even so, malnutrition still exists, even in this time, where we live.
Again, hydrogenated semisolid fats actually were an improvement when they first came out; allowing longer storage times and being cheap to transport because they didn't need containers. It was later that the bad effects of saturated fats were noticed, but at the time they came, they did provide energy cheaply and safely to millions.
But that is the way of science, as opposed to unchanging traditional knowledge. That is also the way of using the information that one has at the time, from wherever it may have come.
And encouraging home births would never be correct, unless you accept the small chances of maternal injury, possible and real brain damage to the baby,and a small risk of the mother not surviving.
Re: Some things to disagree
by Phylum Chordata on Aug 17, 2015 03:59 PM
I am also troubled that the author has said that there are more maternal deaths in hospitals than for people delivering at home. In my understanding, this statement is not true, and does not belong in a serious news article.
I also hope that he does not do a follow-up article decrying flushing toilets !!
Re: Re: Some things to disagree
by Phylum Chordata on Aug 17, 2015 04:22 PM
This is likely to be a controversial issue as home births are being vigorously promoted these days. The Indian scenario remains that it is safer to have births in a well equipped facility after a regular check-ups during pregnancy.
Any statistics put out by the midwives association of New York do not take into account distances to hospital, lack of good roads that people here contend with.
Re: Some things to disagree
by Phylum Chordata on Aug 17, 2015 04:41 PM
There is a little more.
I think the author is being overly harsh on "science", and that is a mistake. Jenner's vaccination was an improvement over the methods known in Europe in that day; which was "variolation"- inhaling dried scabs of smallpox, eliciting a mild disease or none in most. The problem was that there needed to be smallpox victims to provide the dried scabs; and that occasionally full-blown smallpox would come about due to variolation alone, leading to outbreaks in the vicinity of the person protectd.
It is a triumph of India and the world that we have been able to eradicate smllpox, by knowing for sure that
a) vaccination with cowpox provided near perfect immunity for healthworkers b)the disease ceased to be infective after a certain time period c)it did not persist in animals
All of this was a result of the open sharing of knowledge that is modern science. It is a disservice to condemn this way of thinking that,( at least once,) has pushed a killer disease to the realm of textbooks !!
Re: Some things to disagree
by Phylum Chordata on Aug 17, 2015 04:59 PM
How do we know we are doing well ?
It would be the easiest thing in the world to proclaim that Indian governance requires Indian ways of thinking; that any bad comparisons with others are no longer required because we have seen our own light.
I cannot prove this but I think this way of thinking, cutting us off from the rest of humanity is a terrible idea, because it is too easy to give ourself the BEST possible marks. Like a second North Korea, rather than its southern neighbour.
It is for good that we have a democracy, in outer form similar to others. In a world that Indians live, work and migrate freely, we can observe the course of our Nordic nations, and avoid our Rwandas. As humans, our successes and failures are for all of us to celbrate, deplore, or learn to avoid.
Re: Re: Some things to disagree
by piri on Aug 17, 2015 08:12 PM
Well written rejoinders. You have directly and effectively countered some of the writer's delusional arguments.
But there is indeed a lot more to confront Rajeev Sreenivasan with. In each of his monologues, Mr. Sreenivasan almost invariably leaves so many things unsaid, so many gaps wide open and so many arguments kept going only because there is no opening for challenges to his written word.
Sreenivasan bemoans the persistence of abject poverty in India. Considering how he has kept going for so long with the stance that poverty in India is just a curse left behind from colonial times and that Indian society does not need to adjust or make sacrifices in any manner to address it, it is a big surprise indeed that he is berating bureaucrats and the rulers for not caring for the poor !!
But this is just the beginning of the many weak pretenses of arguments that he makes in this article. Mr. Sreenivasan can easily be torn to pieces by those knowing well enough for practically every line that he has written here.
Re: Re: Re: Some things to disagree
by Phylum Chordata on Aug 18, 2015 06:39 PM
Thanks for the kind words. It is sad that discredited concepts like "racial" aptitude for numbers are being talked about in this day and age. It is like he has translated them from the German of the 1920s.
I suppose that it needs to be explained to him that in saying that Indians are genetically better at certain subjects of mental achievement [Citation needed], he is saying that other populations are genetically inferior in comparison. And to him, this happy circumstance is something we should celebrate.
This is not just turning one's back on reality, this is goodbye to good taste.
