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By: India Is Different | DesiPundit

India Is Different | DesiPundit — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:36:39 +0000

[...] is different when it comes to business processes and practices. Is it necessarily good? You [...]

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:54:03 +0000

Not sure on how much Indians are gaining out of these changes. We are mainly a service industry and provide cheap resource to the developed countries. We still are far behind in entrepreneurship. How many Indian brands are truly global? Agree that policy of not re inventing wheel is productive but promoting original ideas is equally important which is predominantly missing in Indian companies.

Question is not how much global news we are exposed to but do we really have appetite for them? Only limited number of Indians made a mark in global arena. This situation reminds me of India cricket team where we have individuals with best performances and records but as a team we are far behind. In my opinion India needs original ideas and group of entrepreneurâ€™s for real big leap. Copy (CC or even BCC) can’t be a solution for long run.

By: Pramod

Pramod — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:03:44 +0000

Those following this topic might find this reading interesting - From Across the Board/Conference Board: The Indians Are Coming: How management thinkers from India are changing the face of American business.

By: paappaan

paappaan — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:12:22 +0000

I agree with Bala. In US, all the news is local. It is very difficult to get printed news about other places in the world unless you subscribe to the New York Times, or more than 5000 people die in a catastrophe.

In India (esp. in Kerala), we get all the inetrnational news even in the vernacular dailies; and, people are aware of the global events as well. When I lived in Trivandrum some 15 years back, I remember seeing a wall-writing (“chuvarezhuththu)” that said “Support the Shining Path guerillas” :-) I don’t think you would see such a writing in any other country except Peru (where the Shining Path guys used to operate).

By: yum yum

yum yum — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:16:54 +0000

I mostly agree. India and China and to a large extent US, Japan etc are different. The US was able to set the standards and to some extent Europe follows slightly different standards.

If Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China can stay different so can India. India’s large domestic market will mean that it will be able maintain its uniqueness. In fact it is only countries that have created their own paths of development that have been able to grow in a sustained manner something which the Southeast Asian countries did not do.

Finally, India’s socialist years were a form of stabilisation of a nascent country that definitely did not feel ‘Indian’ completely. If you doubt that ask the Tamils, Sikhs etc. It also created an independent base that is now standing in good stead for us.

PS: Any opinions about the Left Party, West German attitudes towards East Germans and the outcome of the coming elections?

By: Efby Antony

Efby Antony — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:03:16 +0000

I disagree. To see the difference, all we have to do is to compare the product quality between the pre & post liberalization era. The Indian model has been predominantly the socialist model envisaged by Nehru, which only served to destroy wealth and create over-bureaucratic institutions. The radical Indian business models that you are talking about are by and large the contributions of successful Indian entreprenuers. It has nothing to do with our collectivist inclination. I believe that if we had followed the ‘norm’, gradually, right after independence rather than abruptly, post 1990, we would have been in a much better position now.

By: Bala

Bala — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:57:58 +0000

Surya, Loved the first part of your post. I recently read about eChaupal and was very impressed with the innovation that really betters life. Was very inspiring.

As for the last part of your post, from what I have seen, Indians are better informed about the rest of the world than the world is of India or other developing/third world nations. Hindu, IE, TOI, etc do real well on that front. And who can forget Prannoy Roy’s “The World this Week”. As for Western media, it is mostly biased – reflected very well in your post http://silenteloquence.suryaonline.org/2005/08/21/not-newsworthy/ and my post http://balak.blogspot.com/2005/07/our-shameless-hypocrisy.html. It covers what its government wants its people to hear. And the few times it doesnt, usually results in retactions and apologies!

By: Surya

Surya — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:24:25 +0000

It will be a pity if standardisation enters India in a big way..India’s strenghts lie in her uniqueness. Hopefully, we will adopt a balanced standardisation, when the inevitable happens.

By: havoc

havoc — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:42:19 +0000

I would say India is going to be hit by the standardization wave sooner rather than later. Standardization can be a sharp double edged sword. Standardization might bring quality but it also creates a generation of “dont ask, just do”