These review is about small articles(Past and Present) which I took from different sources which proves that India is progressing and is on the right path towards eliminating poverty and also compares India with China, these review is for those anti-indians or those pessimistic indians whose life is full of pessimism and who have betrayed their motherland by running away to foreign shores like USA for making money and whose only aim in life is to speak bad about India at all social and other fora’s instead of acting as ambassadors of India.
1]’’India remains one of the world’s best kept secrets.People outside these country do not know what India has to offer. In fact India remains clouded by negative perceptions.’’ -- Indra Nooyi(President, Pepsico in a speech in Delhi Feb, 2000)
2]’’We looked at World Development Indicators, from 1980-99 for all countries for a population above 20 million.Of, 31 such countries, India had the 4th highest growth of GDP in purchasing power parity(PPP), after China, Korea and Thailand.Our GDP(PPP)is $2.5 trillion.’’ -- Yashwant Sinha as Finance Minister quoted in ’Outlook’ Dec 17, 2001
3]’’India’s elites are losing faith in their system, threatening the foundations that offer the best solutions to the new challenges brought by economic growth.China’s elites meanwhile, seem barely aware of the flaws in their system, an ignorance that could monumental failure if not addressed.Foreign countries often accentuate the problem by suggesting that India could use a dose of China’s medicine rather than the other way round.Debunking the myth of China’s triumph over India--two countries that together comprise a third of world’s population--matters for everyone.’’ -- Bruce Gilley(Wall Street Journal Feb 27, 2002)
4]’’Sanskrit disciplines your mind.You can think much better in it.’’ -- Daniel Rene Michel Mariau(Univ of Hull, UK 2000)
5]’’India can be compared only with India, ’’argues Yogendra Singh, a sociology professor at JNU in New Delhi, a sentiment shared by many of India’s optimists.By that measure, there is much to celebrate today.
’’Poverty now is not at all what it was in 1947, ’’said Singh, who grew up poor and low-caste in a village in UP.’’ Then, 80 to 90 percent of people had no proper clothing;now, almost everybody is properly dressed.Then, many people were emaciated;now, just about everybody gets 2 meals a day.Then, life expectancy was about 30, and its more than 60 now.These are tremendous changes, so I don’t think we have any reason to hang our heads.’’ -- John F. Burns(NY Times 97)
6]’’’The only petrified eucalyptus fossil found in India was discovered by Dr.Dharmendra Prasad[Of Narmada Valley Research Center, Hoshangabad].It is named Eucalyptus Dharmendri after him’.I had always heard that the eucalyptus was an exotic species imported from Australia, and am astonished to discover it was native to Gondwana Land.’’ -- Royina Grewal in ’Sacred Virgin’
7]’’Voltas, in association with an Italian company, has clinched the deal to air-condition the world’s largest cruise liner Queen Mary II.The time-bound project will be completed off Nantes in France and the ship would set sail by December 2003, ’’Mr A Soni MD, Voltas to Business Line.Of the total project cost of Rs.135 crore, the deal is excepted to fetch Voltas Rs.80 crore.’’ -- Business Line Feb 12, 2002
8]In China, there is order on the surface, and chaos underneath.
In India, there is chaos on the surface, and order underneath. -- A foreign investor
9]’’The Indian can neither forget his body nor his mind, while the European is always forgetting on or the other. With this capacity to forget, he ahs for the time being, conquered the world.Not so the Indian.He not only knows his nature, but also how much he himself is nature.’’
--C.G Jung 1958 ’’Yoga and the East’’
10]’’You don’t need to interview me.Simply read the Upanishads.They knew all about it, long before I did.’’
--Karl Eric Svieby(Australian Management guru quoted in Business World, March, 2000)
11]’’Dr Balakrishna Matapurkar, surgeon in New Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College, ...noticed a growth of abnormal tissues in a patient’s abdomen.’’I wondered how these tissues were formed.’says Matapurkar.That was impetus enough for research which yielded a technique for regeneration of damaged and diseased organs and tissues. ’’ ’’The inventor indeed was able to successfully repair/regenerate the organs in human beings, ’’reads the US Patent No 6227202 which represented 25 years of Matapurkar’s hard work.Though he had offers from universities abroad, he completed his research in India.’’
--Prerna Singh Bindra in ’The Week’ July 22, 2001
12]’’...our country is changing - for the better.Indians are sitting at the edge of digital revolution, new prosperity is forcing the markets to mature, licenses are virtually over, and more important, the face of the capital markets is changing.’’ -- Gautam Chikermane column in ’Intelligent Investor’ Feb.1-15, 2001
13]’’India’s agriculture may finally be catching up with changing times.Figures just out in the latest Economic Survey show that a whopping 6 million joined the select band of those holding credit cards-making this the fastest growing credit card scheme in the country.Over 20 million farmers till November 2001 had taken up these cards taking Rs.43, 392 crore credit from this route for their agricultural operations...’’ -- Indian Express Feb 27, 2002
14]’’When ’Business Week’, in its August 24, 1998 issue listed Bangalore as one of the world’s ten hot-spots, it seemed like a flash in a pan.Then ’Newsweek’ listed Bangalore as one of the ten hottest tech cities...The latest accolade comes from UNDP.In its 2001 report, it ranks Bangalore fourth, with a score of 13 out of 16, along with Austin, San Francisco and Taipei.’’ --Janaki Murali ’Business Line’ Jan 1, 2002
15]’’The struggle of one-sixth of humanity for dignity and prosperity is a drama of highest order and of great consequence to the future of the world.It has new meaning for all humanity and sheds new light on the future of liberalism in the world.’’ -- Gurcharan Das, Author-Jan, 2000