Goodbye ‘India Shining’

[Splurgenxs]

ppl need to stop relying on made up numbers and monitor trends on a broad scale.

 

[Ticker]

Chini Fail!

How is export of cars = production?

Besides automobile exports for 2009 India was ahead of China

Suzuki, Hyundai’s Indian Car Exports Beat China’s

There was a 19% fall in car purchase in India itself.

Baahir thankana becho ge

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

There was a 19% fall in car purchase in India itself.

Baahir thankana becho ge

Ek aur CC agaya!

I'm taking about exports.

Show for 2011 or 2012 Chinese automobile exports are greater than those of India.

 

[ajtr]

There was a 19% fall in car purchase in India itself.

Baahir thankana becho ge

Nayee market bana rahe hain na pakistan main nano ke liye. cheap cars ......

 

[Ticker]

Nayee market bana rahe hain na pakistan main nano ke liye. cheap cars ......

nano mein 5 ft ponay ek inch ke Indian hi aa saktay hein. Pakistani nahin.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Chinease dragon...

you sit and wait in 2011 $1.67 trillion GDP

we indians have moved on to 2013 nearly and $2 trillion GDP

guess wat 1.67 trillion compounded by average growth rate 6% gives you over 2 years = yes you guessed it over $1.9 trillion

THATS WHERE WE GET OUR $2 TRILLION GDP FROM

Wow that is really incredible.

Usually people wait until the year actually is over before they give annual GDP.

ppl need to stop relying on made up numbers and monitor trends on a broad scale.

Made up numbers? Sort of like this?

Bloomberg - India Overstated Exports by $9 Billion

 

[Airboss786]

Airboss

dont worry abt india and its 2 trilion GDP or starving 800 million.

concentrate on the 200 billion GDP of pakistan and the 90% masses stil living and believing in a medievil world of the 9th century

Go back & 'READ CAREFULLY' the question I asked you! Then just try to, like I said before, 'enlighten' us! (FYI, It sure is NOT cracked up to be what you all is said about its 'incredible shiningness'!)

 

[Splurgenxs]

Made up numbers? Sort of like this?

ooh yeah something like this
Chinese Companies Forced to Falsify Data, Government Says - Bloomberg

haha haha ----not ...get real nolife

and yea i don't expect u to answer my genuine queries either.Keep deflecting to eternity.

im off.

 

[indian_jigar]

Wow that is really incredible.

Usually people wait until the year actually is over before they give annual GDP.



Made up numbers? Sort of like this?

Bloomberg - India Overstated Exports by $9 Billion

World Bank estimates Indian GDP at 1.85 trillion as of the end of 2011.

World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance - Google Public Data Explorer

Assuming a 6% growth, we should be looking at 1.96 trillion at the end of 2012 (1.94 if we take 5%), pretty close to the 2 trillion mark.

 

[Ticker]

Ek aur CC agaya!

I'm taking about exports.

Show for 2011 or 2012 Chinese automobile exports are greater than those of India.

Oh so you have started exporting Hindustan Ambassador - lovely car.

If you are talking about Toyota, Ford and Suzuki - these are Japanese and UK brand cars. You are an outsourced location because of availability of slave labour.

 

[ajtr]

nano mein 5 ft ponay ek inch ke Indian hi aa saktay hein. Pakistani nahin.

sawari ke liye thode hi.it can be cost effective car for car bombing by taliban.Tatas have realised this potential of nano in pakistan...

 

[INDIC]

nano mein 5 ft ponay ek inch ke Indian hi aa saktay hein. Pakistani nahin.

Isliye Pakistan mein kya aisi car design karte hain.

 

[Ticker]

sawari ke liye thode hi.it can be cost effective car for car bombing by taliban.Tatas have realised this potential of nano in pakistan...

na na ...... Taliban ka kaam itni choti si gari se nahin hota.

Bari gari chahiye hoti hai.

Ye bhi Pakistani Taliban hein . . . mazak to nahin.

Isliye Pakistan mein kya aisi car design karte hain.

nano jaisi garian to Pakistani apnay gahron mein hi bana letay hein.

 

[INDIC]

na na ...... Taliban ka kaam itni choti si gari se nahin hota.

Bari gari chahiye hoti hai.

Ye bhi Pakistani Taliban hein . . . mazak to nahin.



nano jaisi garian to Pakistani apnay gahron mein hi bana letay hein.

Jaise ki water car.

 

[Windjammer]

Middle class India has few heroes. Once in a while we find someone. But even before he can settle in, we are disenchanted. Either he fails to live up to our high expectations after the first burst of success, like those guys who win crores on KBC and then vanish into the woodwork. Or worse, he swiftly morphs into monstrous money making machine. Like some of our sportsmen and movie stars.

We like our heroes to excel, stay humble, respect the stature given to them and even if they make lots of money (as some do) not to boast about it in public. A good example is Abdul Kalam. He is a typical middle class icon. So are people like Vishwanathan Anand, Rahul Dravid, Aamir Khan, Mary Kom. Politicians are rare in this pantheon. The middle class has long stopped trusting them.

Luckily, Manmohan Singh was different. He was a respected economist, a finance minister by happenstance who did his job well. No controversy ever singed him. He became Prime Minister by accident, sidestepping all the ugliness, corruption, lies and chicanery that go with everyday politics. It also helped that he was gentle, soft spoken, accessible, and down to earth. For middle class India, he was the perfect choice.

He was not a typical, old style, cow belt neta breathing fire and brimstone, and bursting with clichés about equality and social justice. Singh made no tall promises to Hatao Garibi. Nor did he talk about India Shining even when India was actually shining during his tenure. He was able to artfully manage the contradictions of his coalition and keep it going. Never once did he mention The Foreign Hand. In fact, he reached out his hand in friendship to the world, and our neighbours. The media saw him as a wise and capable man. We were proud of him and even though we knew he was no great achiever, we saw him as a decent guy trying to do a decent day job. To the best of his ability.

That was a while back. Today he leads what is arguably one of the most corrupt, arrogant, inept Governments this nation has ever seen. It appears almost as if he can do no right. Even those who once swore by his personal honesty are no longer all that sure. The latest bunch of scams lie, like a huge dung heap, outside his office and it’s no longer easy to believe he never got a whiff of it.

Singh's reaction to crises around him is also peculiar. This week's arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi on grounds of sedition is the most sinister among a series of strange occurrences under his watch. Almost every other morning, some halfwit or the other in his Cabinet gets up and threatens to block the internet or shut down social media. Singh himself recently told a bunch of senior cops to take steps to curb this malaise. What malaise is he talking about? The right to free speech? Twitter has been ordered to take off parody IDs, including those that spoof Singh and the PMO. Never since the Emergency has anyone reacted like this. No cartoons, no jokes, no parodies, no humour. No free press either if his henchmen have their way. Can you imagine the Washington Post being threatened for writing a critical article on him? Earlier, they were furious with TIME for calling him an under achiever.

That the Prime Minister is clueless about the role of social media is obvious to anyone reading his tweets. His must be the single most boring twitter ID in the world, putting out official press releases and texts of his speeches. It shows how totally out of touch he is with the media, how little he understands its role. But the charge of sedition against Trivedi lends a macabre touch. UPA2 has finally crossed the line and Singh’s silence has revealed his true character. It is time someone reminded him that this is India. Free, democratic India. Not Idi Amin’s Uganda nor Gaddafi’s Libya.

The middle class has lost yet another hero. But what's worse, Manmohan Singh has finally lost the plot.

Extraordinary Issue : Pritish Nandy's blog-The Times Of India