A Better India A Better World

Reading The better India the better world and also trying to put the book thought in my words with few examples from my side. Its a good book and worth reading. This book is basically  is a collection of Mr Narayan murthy lectures at different places across the globe. It covers wide perspective form Politics to foreign trade to law and Of course technology

Few Good Points from the book

1.We have to recognize that public sector interest is not  public interest and interest of government is not the interest of the people

2.The biggest bane of our thousand year old enslavement is apathy.the main reason of our poverty is our unwillingness to take proactive action when solution is is standing right infront of us staring at our face

3.We have learned and mastered the skill of escaping from our responsibilities to solve our problem by blaming  our destiny

What to learn from west ?

4. Apathy in addressing the community matters has held us back from making progress which is otherwise within our reach. We do see and waste our time in analyzing the problems around us but never try to solve them .We behave as if the problem do not exist at all or as if they belong to some one else. In the West people  people approach societal problem proactively. reason??- we were ruled by foreigners for over a thousand years so we have always believed that public or societal issues belong to some foreign ruler and  we have no responsibility to solve them. We are so used to follow orders and hence a very very weak decision making capabilities.in Short in Aristotle words "We are what we repeatedly do" sounds so right.

eg:40 year old suggestion by irrigation expert to conquer the problem of drought and flood was to create a water grid consisting all the rivers from north and south.as of now no action being taken in that direction

5.Another important trait what we Indian can learn from west is accountability.In the west irrespective of your position you are held accountable for what you do where as in India the more important you are the less responsible you are

may be a little from their professionalism in dealing business

Corruption ?? is it really invincible

A positive example of how corruption can could be fought. Few years ago a minister of singaporean community was charged for corruption and was found guilty after primary investigation. He ran to PM asking if there was something what could be done to save his honor  but after getting a negative reply and understanding it very clearly that his career is actually over and he will be punished he came back and put a bullet in his head. Think how strong message was sent by this action?

This is where i end my first part will soon put the review for the other half of the book