In her iconic novel “Atlas Shrugged”, Ayn Rand described the struggle that goes on between creators of wealth and the class of people who depend upon the creators for their own survival and yet try their best to bring them on their knees. But the creators ignore all the abuses and keep on doing what they have to do because their work is their passion. All this stops one day when the protagonist of the novel, John Galt reminds them that they don’t have to take all these abuses anymore, that they don’t have to carry the weight of the parasites of the world on their shoulders anymore, specially when these parasites are trying their best to sabotage them.
Something similar played out when Mr. Murthy just became too tired of all the abuses heaped at him by Mr. Gowda. Maybe it was his conscience that told him that he did not have to take it anymore. This is true of the entire IT industry. During the past decade, IT industry has not only been the single unqualified success story emerging out from India, it has also injected the much needed professionalism and corporate responsibility in India’s industrial sector. This is a globalized economy and Mr. Murthy and other IT leaders could just pack their bags and start their companies in any other part of the world and they would be just as successful. Mr. Gowda and other politicians are trying their best to kill the goose that has laid golden eggs until now for everyone. I hope they realize this before it is too late.
Yet another woman burnt to death for dowry in India. Previously when I’ve written about dowry deaths on my blog – I’ve received some comments that claim that the law regarding dowry is sometimes used by some women organizations to harass men and to settle scores related to other household disputes.
Well I don’t give a damn – the harassments carry weight only because there are still dowry killings in the country. Stop the killings and any allegations that women organizations make will automatically lose its veracity.
Anyways, two things should be noticed in this Washington Post article:
- In particular, the death of the young newlywed — a shy, deeply religious schoolteacher’s daughter whose husband had a college degree and worked in computer graphics — shows that the age-old practice endures even, and perhaps especially, among the educated urban middle-class.
- The practice was no longer confined to the Hindu upper castes, where it originated, but had spread across a broad range of classes and communities, including Muslims and Christians.
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102900729.html
Is there a global conspiracy against Congress and more specifically K. Natwar Singh? Haa haa haa, you gotta be kidding me! This is the worst attempt at spinning a news story that I have ever seen.
Here is some background. The Volcker report which was the result of an independent inquiry by former US federal reserve chief Paul Volcker investigating kickback allegations during Saddam Hussein rule just came out a couple of days ago. It mentions our honorable K. Natwar Singh as one of the beneficiaries of kickbacks from Saddam. Natwar feels that it is all due to a global conspiracy against the Congress. Dream on buddy but you and your Congress is not that important in the bigger scheme of things.
“Over the last year, sales surged 11 percent in China and 47 percent in India, a country of a billion people whose seemingly insatiable appetite for gold - for jewelry, temples and dowries - has traditionally made it gold’s largest consumer.”
This is just one of the facts mentioned in this brilliant piece of journalism from New York Times. It is one of those articles which make you think about things that you never thought affect you.
Chinese get the blame for making exotic species of animals extinct in their pursuit of aphrodisiac, the Americans get the blame for global warming for consuming too much energy and here we as Indians are doing our part in contributing to a ticking environmental bomb that comes from the ways in which gold is mined.
Read the entire article here.
