I was just viewing the latest issue of the Economist ( August 10th)on my I phone, and looked at the section on The United States. Of the seven headers, except for one, I was amazed about how both countries were dealing with similar issues.
The first "No speaks", had a sub-heading of " Barrack Obama's patience runs short " and continued to talk about whether America can do business with Vladimir Putin ? Sounds like India's relationship with Pakistan , particularly with the recent killing by the Pakistan soldiers.Every time the Pakistan politicians make noises about wanting to mend fences, the Army puts a spanner in the works to make sure it does not happen.
The second "Just a little local difficulty " talks about the sexual misbehavior and the questionable business transactions by the Mayor of San Diego. You could pick many our local Municipal Corporation Heads or even the Chief Ministers and you probably would be able to levy the same charges.
"Gifts galore", the third one talks about the Governor of Virginia accepting gifts from some questionable corporate head and that it was small beer compared to the corruption of the governors of Illinois and Louisiana, who were serving jail time. The only difference in India is that none of the Chief Ministers would be charged, leave alone serve time.
"No play , no pay", talks about the financial mess the state of Illinois is, with large unfunded pension liabilities among other things. In India present liabilities ( budget deficits ) does not prevent the Chief Ministers from handing out free electricity to farmers , free lap tops to students,subsidies for gas used for home cooking which is used primarily in the urban areas.
"We will get them next year" is about the rampant drug use in baseball. While there have been no incidents of drug use among Indian cricketers, the match fixing and misuse of the sporting bodies, continues to be a problem.
"Keeping the mighty honest" writes about how the concern that " the new wave of press barons should not allow newspapers to become niche products". India is one of the few countries where newspaper circulation continues to increase. However a few years ago, taped telephone conversations revealed the close nexus between prominent journalists and the politicians, and how mutual back scratching helped each other out.
Is it any wonder that Indian do well in the United States ?
The first "No speaks", had a sub-heading of " Barrack Obama's patience runs short " and continued to talk about whether America can do business with Vladimir Putin ? Sounds like India's relationship with Pakistan , particularly with the recent killing by the Pakistan soldiers.Every time the Pakistan politicians make noises about wanting to mend fences, the Army puts a spanner in the works to make sure it does not happen.
The second "Just a little local difficulty " talks about the sexual misbehavior and the questionable business transactions by the Mayor of San Diego. You could pick many our local Municipal Corporation Heads or even the Chief Ministers and you probably would be able to levy the same charges.
"Gifts galore", the third one talks about the Governor of Virginia accepting gifts from some questionable corporate head and that it was small beer compared to the corruption of the governors of Illinois and Louisiana, who were serving jail time. The only difference in India is that none of the Chief Ministers would be charged, leave alone serve time.
"No play , no pay", talks about the financial mess the state of Illinois is, with large unfunded pension liabilities among other things. In India present liabilities ( budget deficits ) does not prevent the Chief Ministers from handing out free electricity to farmers , free lap tops to students,subsidies for gas used for home cooking which is used primarily in the urban areas.
"We will get them next year" is about the rampant drug use in baseball. While there have been no incidents of drug use among Indian cricketers, the match fixing and misuse of the sporting bodies, continues to be a problem.
"Keeping the mighty honest" writes about how the concern that " the new wave of press barons should not allow newspapers to become niche products". India is one of the few countries where newspaper circulation continues to increase. However a few years ago, taped telephone conversations revealed the close nexus between prominent journalists and the politicians, and how mutual back scratching helped each other out.
Is it any wonder that Indian do well in the United States ?
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