tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post8644571422683059482..comments2023-08-25T17:30:36.937+05:30Comments on Business Musings: How about a WTO deal inside IndiaRameshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-36589652803485726602013-12-13T21:19:24.407+05:302013-12-13T21:19:24.407+05:30@Vincy - Its hard enough for businesses to move st...@Vincy - Its hard enough for businesses to move stuff between states. As for individuals - we can forget it. Your experience is absolutely typical.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-65898042551019816662013-12-13T19:10:37.787+05:302013-12-13T19:10:37.787+05:30oh yeah talk about interstate restrictions. My hu...oh yeah talk about interstate restrictions. My husband hails from Thalassery which has a good green cover and it is a custom aroudn there to grow teak/rosewood and mahogany for ones own purposes like buidling a house or furniture needed. Since we were not planning to settel there, we wanted to get the rosewood logs earmarked for us by the family to Chennai and just going through the procedures for inter state permits / NOCs and what not, put us off and we never got around to get our own stuff here. <br /><br />It must be next to impossible to get the 35 India's within India to agree on one deal. Our famous threesome of ladies in the states are sure shot spoilers, to begin with.Vincyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05575941564548214423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-38260632277718362452013-12-10T21:54:44.903+05:302013-12-10T21:54:44.903+05:30I agree with you re. Arundhati Roy ...
But, not ab...I agree with you re. Arundhati Roy ...<br />But, not about Sainath. <br /><br />Here is why:<br /><br />While I might disagree with Sainath more often than the times I agree with his analysis and commentaries, his writings convey to me the authenticity that I find lacking in Roy's. <br /><br />Reading (or listening to) Roy, she does come across as echoing the views of people like Chomsky here. I have always wondered what it was that Roy did in order to gain such a prominent place. If her initial claim to fame was that Booker-winning novel, even that was bizarre to me--I could barely read a few pages of that. And, it is not that I don't love fiction, or Indian fiction, or fiction set in Kerala. (http://t.co/8wI6vOfN20) ... she has had way, way more than the 15 Warhol minutes of fame! Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-92036691384987737422013-12-10T08:54:32.509+05:302013-12-10T08:54:32.509+05:30@Sriram
Add Arundhati Roy & P Sainath and .....@Sriram<br /><br />Add Arundhati Roy & P Sainath and ..........Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-41592882475178807152013-12-09T09:53:13.302+05:302013-12-09T09:53:13.302+05:30Paul Krugman
AK Sen
Ramamritham
Paul Krugman
AK S...Paul Krugman<br />AK Sen<br />Ramamritham<br /><br />Paul Krugman<br />AK Sen<br />Ramamritham<br /><br />Paul Krugman<br />AK Sen<br />Ramamritham<br /><br />Paul Krugman<br />AK Sen<br />Ramamritham<br /><br />muahahahahahahahahahaha ;)Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-68317536719484741812013-12-09T08:41:40.563+05:302013-12-09T08:41:40.563+05:30@Sriram - Please don't show the red rag of Ama...@Sriram - Please don't show the red rag of Amartya Sen - you are in grave danger of being clobbered for the said gentleman is in the same class as Paul Krugman for me. He gets a Nobel Prize for writing an unintelligble equation that says you are poor because you are poor. Thankfully Jagdish Bhagwati has been tearing into him ; so at least he is kept in check. His book is completely unreadable - except for the catchy title of course. <br /><br />India's strangeness , at least in this sphere, is entirely due to Ramamritham. One of the worst enduring legacies that the British left us with is the desi version of Sir Humphrey Appleby.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-29732125015944660122013-12-08T22:18:58.888+05:302013-12-08T22:18:58.888+05:30Whenever you feel like complaining about Indians a...Whenever you feel like complaining about Indians arguing, well, think of the wonderful title of one of AK Sen's book: "The Argumentative Indian" ;)<br />It is in our genes to argue--even when we agree!!!<br /><br />I won't get into the US and the EU and their fancy pontificating--because, there is nothing to disagree with you!<br /><br />I don't have anything to disagree with you about the restrictions on the internal movement of goods within India. <br /><br />Damn, whatever happened to the argumentative Indian in me???? I guess I have truly become American!!! muahahaha ;)<br /><br />When we were kids, my father's aunt lived in Trivandrum and she didn't care much for the rice grown in Kerala. She then had to get permits to regularly take rice from across the border, which I could not understand. To move it a hundred kilometers within India!<br /><br />India is a strange country, and it seems hell bent on making sure it remains strange :(Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-54681186928747776872013-12-08T22:02:10.579+05:302013-12-08T22:02:10.579+05:30@Reflections - Oh the entire area of sales tax, oc...@Reflections - Oh the entire area of sales tax, octroi, inter state permits, forms, etc etc is all the creation of Ramamritham and he exhibits unbridled delight at the complexity. If you abolish all this nonsense, Ramamritham will be deeply hurt. His entire pleasure comes from intricate procedures, complex regulations, millions of forms to be filled in, and all the rest of it. What will he do if we simplify life ....Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-62151855476374467292013-12-08T19:49:40.484+05:302013-12-08T19:49:40.484+05:30"The only person it will hurt is Ramamritham ..."The only person it will hurt is Ramamritham - and he along with his political masters are doing their best to block this."<br /><br />But why/how wd it hurt him??? I mean there are enough people in India for him not to lose out, then what does he gain out of blocking it???Reflectionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07306120391459083770noreply@blogger.com