Comments on: Et Tu, Gurcharan?

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:00:59 +0000

Hi!

The beauty of Democracy is that people get what they deserve, nothing less and nothing more. Indian people are paying for their misdeeds and their cultural (not religious) problems.

We need an intellectually capable India. An India that thinks and acts and not reacts with a narrow sense of selfishness. If we can do that, we would be something much greater than anything the world has seen and not merely a distorted copy of the quasi-capitalist economy that is itself struggling with its own unsustainable growth.

Lets think, act and deserve!

Nitin

By: India lover

India lover — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:56:01 +0000

Good blog, keep up the good work, let our latent enrgies contribute towards the development of this great nation, and comment

By: thecupgr

thecupgr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:53:12 +0000

Instead of reading Gurcharan Das’s New York Times piece, two recent publications may be a better read for India readers to get a more informative perspective about China. The first one is particular interesting, as India is probably more behind than US on understanding China ( still stays at 60s of last century?):

The real US deficit with China – knowledge
As China returns as a world power, Americans should update their impressions.
By Xu Wu (Xu Wu is an assistant professor in strategic media and public relations at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0501/p09s02-coop.html

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China – 1978-2008 – Three Decades of Decentralized Economic Growth
by Bret Swanson*
http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/2008/pop15.13chinaEandI.pdf

By: swaptions7

swaptions7 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:57:50 +0000

Pallavi Iyer puts it very succinctly in “Smoke and Mirror”
If you are born with very poor parents u better be in china…if you are with rich/upper middle class u better be in India.

By: Seemingly Unpatriotic. Introspections. « Crap

Seemingly Unpatriotic. Introspections. « Crap — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:23:23 +0000

[...] Unpatriotic. Introspections. This post on the Indian Economy Blog links to this op-ed article in the NY Times, authored by Gurcharan Das. [...]

By: Rahul Sengupta

Rahul Sengupta — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:10:37 +0000

Whats wrong with G.D.’S article?!

It is just an overview of the prevailing situation in the country.

Yes he has touched upon many subjects in it but don’t we do the same when we ourselves get involved in any discussion(s) about our country?

YES it does not offer any Solutions to the problems mentioned but we have to find out whether that was his objective in this article!

By: photonman

photonman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:38:49 +0000

It’s typical Gurcharan Das giving his audience what it likes. It will earn him easy publicity and (not that he cares) some quick money. After all, he does have a marketing background…

By: chandra

chandra — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:59:29 +0000

I also felt the same way perhaps unlikely to consider him as liberal. In fact he has been talking and writing for quite some time. I also posted in my blog here http://chandra-porul.blogspot.com/2009/01/saga-folks-on-das.html

By: China Vs India Debate…Overdone? Yes « Premanand’s Weblog

China Vs India Debate…Overdone? Yes « Premanand’s Weblog — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:10:10 +0000

[...] India — premanand @ 10:10 pm Sometimes I do feel the way Prashant feels in this link http://indianeconomy.org/2009/01/10/et-tu-gurcharan/. Since I work in projects in both countries, I too get this question “India or China [...]

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:32:28 +0000

Umesh

Re bakwaas: I was referring to comments on the blog posts in the China category http://indianeconomy.org/category/china/, most of which we’ve deleted or edited.

Das’s essay isn’t bakwaas — agree with some of what he says. My issue was with the disjointed, meandering nature of his piece. And, on the points that I did agree with (the role of government in India, the need to improve our infrastructure etc.,) there really was nothing new that he offered