India BigShot 1: Billionaire!

India BigShot 1: Billionaire!

This is a true story. It proves that the easy way to become a billionaire in India is to Undo India. 
If you met the man in the early days you would notice that all he had was one tablet-making machine. To demonstrate his clout he would surely take you to the Drug Controller's Office. From the gate and up the steps of 4 or 5 storeys every staff member you passed would salute him. In his office the Drug Controller would stand up to greet him - like a long-lost brother.
If you gave it a thought and checked up (as I did...before I quit after a brief stint as his new product advisor), you would understand the nature of the business. The man bribed everyone from watchman up at the Drug Controller's Office. And with the Controller's approval he bought up poor quality or spurious drugs from other shady operators and supplied them to the government and municipal hospitals in the state.   
From that auspicious (ho! ha!) beginning the man built a drug company. Today he's a billionaire, looking for green pastures in the West.

Does that man ever stop to think how many lives or how many families he hurt or destroyed by supplying spurious drugs?

He rose by Undoing India. 

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India's destiny unveiled - on Amazon!

Revolutionary Theme: A story to inspire India, Dreams of One Country is about a beautiful and amazing young woman who leads the country's transformation into a truly modern and enlightened nation. Download from Amazon.com on any device - like I-phone, pad or computer.
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India's Second Everest!

INDIA'S SECOND EVEREST!

Yes, India has a second world-beater peak. Indeed, it's a physical peak - the Everest of showing-off. Before it showing-off cars (3-car owners looking down on 2-car owners; 2-car owners looking down on 1-car owners; everyone looking down on no-car owners), foreign brand clothes, breed dogs etc. to each other in the neighbourhood is nothing. It's a single family home that rises 25-stories on a Mumbai landmark, making it eligible for entry in the Guinness Book of Records.

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Modern India Rope-Trick!!?

Modern India Rope-Trick!!?

How many times since Independence has an international agency, recognizing India''s talent potential, predicted that in the next ten to twenty years she would be the fastest developing country?

When will the people realize that only a just and caring society (not pretensions and showing-off; not propaganda and self-promotion) which upholds the basic ideas of humanity for all her people can become truly developed?
There's no easy Rope-Trick Climb to Development.
Failure to learn historic lessons makes it difficult for India to rise much higher than her  135^th rank among 185 countries in the Human Development Index rating of UNDP. Obviously, growing economic or military power is not enough. That is why Russia, yesterday’s superpower and the first country to send a manned satellite into space (Yuri Gagarin in the first Sputnik) still remains a developing BRIC.

It's left to us to decide how long we want to remain a BRIC.

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India's Flying Draincovers!

India's Flying Draincovers!

Where my son lives in the US five 2-storey houses make a circle. And there's a common circular driveway. A drain manhole there has a heavy cast iron cover which says Made in India.

How did India-made draincovers fly West? What spurred exports? Well, it's a curious story. A Mystery. As well as History.
Under British rule the police were under English officers. Every city had cast iron covers over the manholes of drains. Then came Independence. British rule ended and the English left the country. The dawn of freedom. Soon the iron draincovers started vanishing, leaving gaping holes. When replaced they vanished again in a day or two. Slum-dwellers and other poor carried them away and sold them. People died stumbling into the holes in the dark or in rains.

A strange fact is that though Indians differ in language, clothes and  customs, the basic attitudes are similar across the country. So in city after city the draincovers vanished. And state after state decided to give up iron draincovers and use concrete covers instead.
The result was that the iron-cover manufacturers were hard-hit. Their manufacturing facilities fell silent. With no hope of getting business, they realized there was only one way to survive. They would have to explore and find an export market.

So...we must be ever-thankful to the draincover thieves for spurring unforeseen exports for the country.

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