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GREAT!
by swetambar on Sep 24, 2008 01:39 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

It is really heartening to know that Mr.Bhagawati will soon be receiving the Nobel award. As an Indian it is a matter of pride that we are not far behind many developed countries in terms of producing eminent scientists, economists and literates.

This is a refreshing news after so many days that the headlines have been occupied by serial bomb explosions.

Let us hope he bags the award. Good luck professor

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  Re: GREAT!
by Jaichand on Sep 24, 2008 01:43 PM   Permalink
I cannot undestand what you are talking about ?

USA 320 Nobels
Germany 70 Nobels
Australia 12 Nobels
Great Britain 100 Nobels
India 7

Such arrogant attitude even with being nobodies can come only from Indians in particular.

How to find an Indian in your office ? Find the most brooding, frowning, and a man having deep inferiority complex reflected in self praising dialogues and you will see an Indian or yourself in mirror.

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  Re: GREAT!
by Sesh on Sep 24, 2008 01:51 PM   Permalink
incidentally, one would also find that the most brooding, frowning man is the most logical, smart and probably the type that adds value to the company...



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by Harish Manwani on Sep 24, 2008 02:10 PM   Permalink
For God's sake, stop this self-praising nonsense. Bhagwati is Indian only by race or origin. He studied and worked in the US, and is an American citizen. It shows India's weakness rather than strength that people born in this country have to go abroad to shine. So if Bhagwati wins, it is not exactly a matter of national pride.

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  Re: GREAT!
by Varun Sreenivasan on Oct 12, 2008 11:24 PM   Permalink
Try to categorize all nobel laureates associated with India in any way:

British Raj Laureates:
Rudyard Kipling
Ronald Ross
Rabindranath Tagore
Abdus Salam

Foreign Citizens of India origin:
Hargobind Khorana
Subramanyam Chandrasekhar
Amartya Sen
VS Naipaul

India Citizens of Foreign Origin:
Mother Teresa

Indian Citizen:
Sir C.V Raman

What are we so proud of?

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  Re: GREAT!
by Jaichand on Sep 24, 2008 01:53 PM   Permalink
By your logic Americans who won 320 nobels should be hyper arrogant and so should be Mr bill gates and Warren buffet ..... they are every so humble dont you see them. no hint of arrogance.

Indians have definately a whole gene of ARROGANCE in them, in reality it is a inferiority complex.

That boxer vijender said he could defeate mohammad ali and mike tyson at once at the same time, when he won an olympic bronze. Such arrogance is uncalled for.

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  Re: GREAT!
by Sesh on Sep 24, 2008 02:08 PM   Permalink
nobel prize is definitely a great honour, but look at the history of the countries from which the laurettes have come from...

india has been crippled under foreign ruly and it is not easy to come back with a bang...

in spite of adversities, the average indian has come a long way to challenge those who were once the rulers (read as looters also) of india...

have patience... do not make unfair comparisons...



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  Re: Re: GREAT!
by Sesh on Sep 24, 2008 02:16 PM   Permalink
jaichand,

the destruction in india has been of its culture... which was the backbone of our progress...

and as a result there is so much infighting that the other stands to gain...

pls read my post below...



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by Jaichand on Sep 24, 2008 02:11 PM   Permalink

See Indian IT industry sitting on a fat cash of $40 billion made using cheap labour, what have they INVENTED in the last 10 years ?

BTW British went 60 years ago and look at the countries like Japan, Germany, Taiwan, China , South Korea, etc which were TOTALLY destroyed by the war stand today and then look at India which had biggest Industrial base in Asia in 1948 stand today.

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by Sesh on Sep 24, 2008 02:14 PM   Permalink
on the same, i do agree that some degree of arrogance springs from inferiority complex... but how does this complex arise?

the truth is that every indian is brainwashed to believe that anything indian is shit and only the western is good... hence the eagerness to discard indianness and to grasp the western in language, dress, conduct, manners and culture...

obviously, such guys when faced with brits or americans look down on themselves and it evolves on the lines of master-slave relationship...

so, it is mere power psychology... if a situation arises when whites have to earn their bread in india... then the most brooding, most irritable, arrogant, least sensitive and of course white fellow would the the brit or the american...



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by Jayan Prasad on Sep 24, 2008 03:04 PM   Permalink
where r u from and what r u by the way?

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by Jayan Prasad on Sep 24, 2008 03:03 PM   Permalink
hey sesh ur point is very true and not many people realise the complexity of this issue,,,,every bit of out thinking is handicapped by english and westernisation.
not many people understand the consequences of lingual and cultural imperialisation/dominance . they simply think west is better because of their technological advancements.but dont inderstand why such advancements HAD to happen there.

wish more indians become aware like urself.

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by satyarthi on Sep 24, 2008 02:05 PM   Permalink
Winning a particular Prize depends on opportunity and grooming. Moreover, all those who won NP in America might have come from different nationality.
Most of them are jews and Germans, collected by Americans after World War II.

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  Re: GREAT!
by Jaichand on Sep 24, 2008 02:09 PM   Permalink
So what is YOUR problem, They ARE Americans finally. and btw did you do any research that they are ONLY jews and Germans ?

In the last 7 years 20 Americans have won Nobels, no of them is a German or a Jew.

I was making a point about arrogance not your stupid argument. What are you trying to prove ? UR POINT ?

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  Re: GREAT!
by satyarthi on Sep 24, 2008 02:14 PM   Permalink
Jaichand,
If you want real discussion, discuss America, not Nobel Prize.

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