Saturday, February 21, 2009

A real criticism

Indians were never good at innovating, they are good at imitating. I don't know about Raman and Aryabhata. But, the truth is more complex and not so easy to digest. The majority of population in India still believes that just a minority group of people are brilliants, not them. They are made to think that way. People who speak english well, people who recites hymns and verses from the holy texts, the so called cross belts and the white skins from western world. I am not making any comments that bringing disharmony to the Indian secularism. But, the truth is India is a secular country just on paper. Rural population, who have the best practical knowledge, their brains have never been tapped and exposed to this world. We can say, we are the best. But, nowhere, english that separates us from the rest of the world. We can be good at clerical jobs. Not as scientists,leaders of the world or entrepreneurs. Thee will examples coming up as Nooyi, Mittal, Gandhi, Raman. But, remember, the people mentioned above are just Indian for namesake, not in their education and hence not in their way of thinking. Ramanujam was an exception, somewhere out of blue, but he too needed an Hardy to prove his prowess. He would have lost in darkness, if he did not get that so called ISO mark. We export all our materials to the western world which can't sold in our place anymore, superstitions, horoscopes have come to computer, hindu gods have crossed the himalayas, even shift of time zones and seeing the other world did not change us, Cow's urine is going to be marketed as a drink in our country, I read this yahoo news, rules against cow slaugter, child marriage, no contraception or abortions allowed, teenage preganencies though illegal is still prevalent in society, women are still child bearing machines and don't go beyond kitchen and bedroom. We are going nowhere until there is a social change in our country from where the education start. No point in saying three lines in the very first page of our book and forgetting it in the rest of our life. This writing has no correlation, but truth and pain can't be expressed in an organised way...

5 comments:

  1. "Thee will examples coming up as Nooyi, Mittal, Gandhi, Raman. But, remember, the people mentioned above are just Indian for namesake, not in their education and hence not in their way of thinking."....

    An important view to be considered...

    Its true our country have no ability to produce creative brains..The so called Indians(listed above) are not educated in India...Its really a shame for us Sathish...We have to do something..
    Sathish while our trip to India, we have to speak to our juniors(atleast) about this issue...Everyone should know whats happening in our country...

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  2. People here know everything about it. None including me and you are not ready to act on it. That will disturb our so called comfort zones which we are in right now. A typical middle class mentality, I am safe. Why should I run when my roof is not on fire? Don't forget next would be yours...

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  3. ok Sathish...what you said is 100% true..We ll be in trouble when we intend to do something.. Still, I hope we can do something..

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  4. i blame our education system. its far away from practical applications, for example i studied certain laws in physics in my 5th standard,but i cant understood it i just simply read it as a two mark question. my mind was able to fix that laws to practical applications only on my twelth standard. i studied in a government school,i learned how to divide a number by another only on my 8th in maths . think u the people understand the contradiction...

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  5. Hi sudhan, Thanks for sharing your real life experience in this blog....

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