Feku's biggest fanboys are "Not-Really Indians"; PM for the global Indians living abroad

As PM Modi tries to remake India’s brand image, he’s been championing a “Make in India” manufacturing campaign and searching for new sources of energy to fuel India’s growth. While the Non-Resident Indians, also known as “Not-Really Indians,” or the Indian diaspora is elated at India’s newfound place in the world, the Modi-mania at home has been fading with discontent growing by the day. Some are even calling the Prime Minister’s Office (or the PMO), the Prime Minister Overseas.

confuzzled dude wrote:

As PM Modi tries to remake India’s brand image, he’s been championing a “Make in India” manufacturing campaign and searching for new sources of energy to fuel India’s growth. While the Non-Resident Indians, also known as “Not-Really Indians,” or the Indian diaspora is elated at India’s newfound place in the world, the Modi-mania at home has been fading with discontent growing by the day. Some are even calling the Prime Minister’s Office (or the PMO), the Prime Minister Overseas.

http://atimes.com/2015/05/will-modi-juggernaut-deliver-instant-karma/

confuzzled dude wrote:

As PM Modi tries to remake India’s brand image, he’s been championing a “Make in India” manufacturing campaign and searching for new sources of energy to fuel India’s growth. While the Non-Resident Indians, also known as “Not-Really Indians,” or the Indian diaspora is elated at India’s newfound place in the world, the Modi-mania at home has been fading with discontent growing by the day. Some are even calling the Prime Minister’s Office (or the PMO), the Prime Minister Overseas.

http://atimes.com/2015/05/will-modi-juggernaut-deliver-instant-karma/

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

As PM Modi tries to remake India’s brand image, he’s been championing a “Make in India” manufacturing campaign and searching for new sources of energy to fuel India’s growth. While the Non-Resident Indians, also known as “Not-Really Indians,” or the Indian diaspora is elated at India’s newfound place in the world, the Modi-mania at home has been fading with discontent growing by the day. Some are even calling the Prime Minister’s Office (or the PMO), the Prime Minister Overseas.

http://atimes.com/2015/05/will-modi-juggernaut-deliver-instant-karma/

BTW, I think Arun Shourie is right on the mark on his remarks. A smart, intelligent, honest, proven minister who is loved by the business is being wasted.  I would prefer him over Jaitley.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

As PM Modi tries to remake India’s brand image, he’s been championing a “Make in India” manufacturing campaign and searching for new sources of energy to fuel India’s growth. While the Non-Resident Indians, also known as “Not-Really Indians,” or the Indian diaspora is elated at India’s newfound place in the world, the Modi-mania at home has been fading with discontent growing by the day. Some are even calling the Prime Minister’s Office (or the PMO), the Prime Minister Overseas.

http://atimes.com/2015/05/will-modi-juggernaut-deliver-instant-karma/

BTW, I think Arun Shourie is right on the mark on his remarks. A smart, intelligent, honest, proven minister who is loved by the business is being wasted.  I would prefer him over Jaitley.

And yet, the party attacked him, questioning his motives rather than introspecting. No different from how mindless fanboys on this board attribute partisan motives to anyone who criticizes. The inability to introspect or think independently is the mark  of a chaddi cretin.

brie wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

As PM Modi tries to remake India’s brand image, he’s been championing a “Make in India” manufacturing campaign and searching for new sources of energy to fuel India’s growth. While the Non-Resident Indians, also known as “Not-Really Indians,” or the Indian diaspora is elated at India’s newfound place in the world, the Modi-mania at home has been fading with discontent growing by the day. Some are even calling the Prime Minister’s Office (or the PMO), the Prime Minister Overseas.

http://atimes.com/2015/05/will-modi-juggernaut-deliver-instant-karma/

BTW, I think Arun Shourie is right on the mark on his remarks. A smart, intelligent, honest, proven minister who is loved by the business is being wasted.  I would prefer him over Jaitley.

And yet, the party attacked him, questioning his motives rather than introspecting. No different from how mindless fanboys on this board attribute partisan motives to anyone who criticizes. The inability to introspect or think independently is the mark  of a chaddi cretin.

i have lost hope in modi. NDA's last one year's performance has been that of abject failure. none of the structural issues plaguing the economy have been addressed. take steel for example (only subject that i can speak with some confidence on). the budget had a contradictory para -- duty on steel exports will be raised by 5%; followed by duty on steel remains unchanged. who drafted the budget? does jaitley smoke crack? several months have passed and the chinese are dumping steel merrily and there is still no clarification on duty from the govt.! modi's intentions are good (well, so were mms's) but either he is shackled; surrounded by the wrong advisers or is just not able to deliver! he is unable to do a gujarat at the india level and after one year, it seems unlikely that he can pull a miracle out of thin air. sad considering he got a very luck head start (crash in oil prices; revenue from coal blocks and psu divestment). shourie is absolutely right. this retrospective MAT on FPI is dumb. now they are letting it drag to court! why? take call! a decision is better than no decision!

i have lost hope in the indian governance model. there is no indian growth story - it is a chimera. i will wait a year and then in all likelihood encourage my kids to settle abroad.

brie wrote:

brie wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:
http://atimes.com/2015/05/will-modi-juggernaut-deliver-instant-karma/

BTW, I think Arun Shourie is right on the mark on his remarks. A smart, intelligent, honest, proven minister who is loved by the business is being wasted.  I would prefer him over Jaitley.

And yet, the party attacked him, questioning his motives rather than introspecting. No different from how mindless fanboys on this board attribute partisan motives to anyone who criticizes. The inability to introspect or think independently is the mark  of a chaddi cretin.

i have lost hope in modi. NDA's last one year's performance has been that of abject failure. none of the structural issues plaguing the economy have been addressed. take steel for example (only subject that i can speak with some confidence on). the budget had a contradictory para -- duty on steel exports will be raised by 5%; followed by duty on steel remains unchanged. who drafted the budget? does jaitley smoke crack? several months have passed and the chinese are dumping steel merrily and there is still no clarification on duty from the govt.! modi's intentions are good (well, so were mms's) but either he is shackled; surrounded by the wrong advisers or is just not able to deliver! he is unable to do a gujarat at the india level and after one year, it seems unlikely that he can pull a miracle out of thin air. sad considering he got a very luck head start (crash in oil prices; revenue from coal blocks and psu divestment). shourie is absolutely right. this retrospective MAT on FPI is dumb. now they are letting it drag to court! why? take call! a decision is better than no decision!

i have lost hope in the indian governance model. there is no indian growth story - it is a chimera. i will wait a year and then in all likelihood encourage my kids to settle abroad.

our biggest bane is adopting the UK style of governance over the US style (thank you nehru idiot). look at where UK is today and look at the disgusting horse-trading (free style indian wrestling) that will happen soon during their elections.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

brie wrote:

brie wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

BTW, I think Arun Shourie is right on the mark on his remarks. A smart, intelligent, honest, proven minister who is loved by the business is being wasted.  I would prefer him over Jaitley.

And yet, the party attacked him, questioning his motives rather than introspecting. No different from how mindless fanboys on this board attribute partisan motives to anyone who criticizes. The inability to introspect or think independently is the mark  of a chaddi cretin.

i have lost hope in modi. NDA's last one year's performance has been that of abject failure. none of the structural issues plaguing the economy have been addressed. take steel for example (only subject that i can speak with some confidence on). the budget had a contradictory para -- duty on steel exports will be raised by 5%; followed by duty on steel remains unchanged. who drafted the budget? does jaitley smoke crack? several months have passed and the chinese are dumping steel merrily and there is still no clarification on duty from the govt.! modi's intentions are good (well, so were mms's) but either he is shackled; surrounded by the wrong advisers or is just not able to deliver! he is unable to do a gujarat at the india level and after one year, it seems unlikely that he can pull a miracle out of thin air. sad considering he got a very luck head start (crash in oil prices; revenue from coal blocks and psu divestment). shourie is absolutely right. this retrospective MAT on FPI is dumb. now they are letting it drag to court! why? take call! a decision is better than no decision!

i have lost hope in the indian governance model. there is no indian growth story - it is a chimera. i will wait a year and then in all likelihood encourage my kids to settle abroad.

our biggest bane is adopting the UK style of governance over the US style (thank you nehru idiot). look at where UK is today and look at the disgusting horse-trading (free style indian wrestling) that will happen soon during their elections.

US style system will be a huge disaster for India.

Being a hero/emperor worshipping country, India votes for ONE person. So an executive president like Indira or Modi will easily stack the parliament with their own supporters and converting the Indian democracy into a Russian - Putin-Medvedev - style democracy in no time.

I used to be a supporter but Nada...not for Indians.

One year of Modi government: A look at what does India Inc think
By Rohini Singh, ET Bureau | 5 May, 2015, 07.01AM IST
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brie wrote:here is the summary:

One year of Modi government: A look at what does India Inc think
By Rohini Singh, ET Bureau | 5 May, 2015, 07.01AM IST
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brie wrote:

brie wrote:

The problem is that Modi’s administration has simultaneously engaged in blatantly regressive moves, especially on taxation. The decision to apply the Minimum Alternate Tax to foreign institutional investors who had heretofore been exempt has seriously dented investor confidence. Slapping Cairn Energy with a tax bill based on an awful retrospective tax law passed by the previous government was equally damaging. Individual taxpayers are not being spared either. In a move that harks back to the socialist era of the 1970s, the government has proposed scrutinizing the foreign travel of ordinary Indians to prevent them from squirreling funds away in overseas accounts.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment, though, has been the government’s total failure to privatize even one of India’s massively inefficient public-sector companies.

His penchant for launching big schemes is unabated. He’s just announced a grand highway project that will connect the east and west of India. He’s also put forward a plan to construct 100 “smart cities” with world-class physical and digital infrastructure.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his election speeches raised hopes of a quick turnaround and a pick-up in business activity. But as Patricia Hewitt, head of UK India Business Council pointed out you campaign in poetry, and govern in prose. Modi, she said, is brilliant at campaigning in poetry, as one of the world's great political campaigners. But government is both about the vision and strategy and about the execution, which is governing in prose. It is the execution that is missing.

Modi, on his part, was busy trying to win state elections rather than riding the momentum by announcing and implementing key reforms.

Investors are not only worried about the pace of the economy but are also confused about the numbers. The new set of GDP numbers are cause for confusion. Neelkanth Mishra, India Equity Strategist, Credit Suisse told Business Standard that, for global investors, the new GDP series has compounded the problem of tracking economic momentum. There aren't enough comprehensive and reliable high-frequency indicators that investors can rely on. That the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the finance ministry face the same problem is no solace — it actually increases investors’ concerns!

Faber adds that the recent gross domestic product (GDP) numbers that were reported by the government do not match numerous economic indicators. And so, he suspects that the economy is actually weaker than what the government has reported. The economy is probably growing at maximum 5% per annum. The industrial production has been poor and there hasn't been much improvement on that front either.

When GDP numbers are not trustworthy, investors typically rely on corporate earnings. But here, too, the recent numbers that have been announced do not reflect the growth that the GDP numbers are showing.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his election speeches raised hopes of a quick turnaround and a pick-up in business activity. But as Patricia Hewitt, head of UK India Business Council pointed out you campaign in poetry, and govern in prose. Modi, she said, is brilliant at campaigning in poetry, as one of the world's great political campaigners. But government is both about the vision and strategy and about the execution, which is governing in prose. It is the execution that is missing.

Modi, on his part, was busy trying to win state elections rather than riding the momentum by announcing and implementing key reforms.

Investors are not only worried about the pace of the economy but are also confused about the numbers. The new set of GDP numbers are cause for confusion. Neelkanth Mishra, India Equity Strategist, Credit Suisse told Business Standard that, for global investors, the new GDP series has compounded the problem of tracking economic momentum. There aren't enough comprehensive and reliable high-frequency indicators that investors can rely on. That the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the finance ministry face the same problem is no solace — it actually increases investors’ concerns!

Faber adds that the recent gross domestic product (GDP) numbers that were reported by the government do not match numerous economic indicators. And so, he suspects that the economy is actually weaker than what the government has reported. The economy is probably growing at maximum 5% per annum. The industrial production has been poor and there hasn't been much improvement on that front either.

When GDP numbers are not trustworthy, investors typically rely on corporate earnings. But here, too, the recent numbers that have been announced do not reflect the growth that the GDP numbers are showing.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/on-the-economy-the-modi-government-deserves-the-flak-it-is-getting-business-standard-opinon-115050500444_1.html

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his election speeches raised hopes of a quick turnaround and a pick-up in business activity. But as Patricia Hewitt, head of UK India Business Council pointed out you campaign in poetry, and govern in prose. Modi, she said, is brilliant at campaigning in poetry, as one of the world's great political campaigners. But government is both about the vision and strategy and about the execution, which is governing in prose. It is the execution that is missing.

Modi, on his part, was busy trying to win state elections rather than riding the momentum by announcing and implementing key reforms.

Investors are not only worried about the pace of the economy but are also confused about the numbers. The new set of GDP numbers are cause for confusion. Neelkanth Mishra, India Equity Strategist, Credit Suisse told Business Standard that, for global investors, the new GDP series has compounded the problem of tracking economic momentum. There aren't enough comprehensive and reliable high-frequency indicators that investors can rely on. That the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the finance ministry face the same problem is no solace — it actually increases investors’ concerns!

Faber adds that the recent gross domestic product (GDP) numbers that were reported by the government do not match numerous economic indicators. And so, he suspects that the economy is actually weaker than what the government has reported. The economy is probably growing at maximum 5% per annum. The industrial production has been poor and there hasn't been much improvement on that front either.

When GDP numbers are not trustworthy, investors typically rely on corporate earnings. But here, too, the recent numbers that have been announced do not reflect the growth that the GDP numbers are showing.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/on-the-economy-the-modi-government-deserves-the-flak-it-is-getting-business-standard-opinon-115050500444_1.html

Just proves the damage done to the Indian economy and the country by the United Pauper Alliance is much much deeper and it will take years to rectify the damage.

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

bw wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

it is so weird to be obsessed with a land that one has left and have no intention of returning to. how does it matter what happens to or in india!

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

physicists often model objects with a high level of idealization. one of the favorite running jokes amongst engineers is the physicist model of a cow as a sphere, an object of pure imagination.  NRI patriots are a bit like that. in their physicist-like imagination, india is a rama rajyam devoid of messiness like poverty, muslims and christians in which all students are well fed, and are geniuses like ramanujams, indian industry is a well oiled german-like machine, indian stock market returns are a perpetual bull market, in which ancient hindus had figured all laws of physics and conceived and built weapons only now available to the american military, and all hindus are big-dicked brave warriors whose god is the biggest dicked warrior of them all, narendra modi.

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

it is so weird to be obsessed with a land that one has left and have no intention of returning to. how does it matter what happens to or in india!

The same is true for language, music and culture in general, isn't it?

Let's not forget to include cricket in this list

bw wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

it is so weird to be obsessed with a land that one has left and have no intention of returning to. how does it matter what happens to or in india!

The same is true for language, music and culture in general, isn't it?

Let's not forget to include cricket in this list

i've never understood the NRI obsession with the language used in india. as for music and sports, these are things that one may enjoy even if not living in india and have some bearing on one's state of mind. who governs india affects only those who live in india and while it is natural to have an interest and maybe, even an opinion on it, the kind of passion displayed is very abnormal, imo.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

bw wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

it is so weird to be obsessed with a land that one has left and have no intention of returning to. how does it matter what happens to or in india!

The same is true for language, music and culture in general, isn't it?

Let's not forget to include cricket in this list

i've never understood the NRI obsession with the language used in india. as for music and sports, these are things that one may enjoy even if not living in india and have some bearing on one's state of mind. who governs india affects only those who live in india and while it is natural to have an interest and maybe, even an opinion on it, the kind of passion displayed is very abnormal, imo.

Really ? You must be one Super Rich woman or married to one Super Rich man...Only they can afford not to worry about who rules India.... This is a global economy and if Modi ji wages war with PakiSaitan, thins will begin to affect here and there be it US or China....or me or you.

bw wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

bw wrote:i can't understand this NRI obsession with indian politics - for or against any party.

There are NRIs and there are NRIs. We are talking here about NRI Patriots. These highly cultured folks love their old country so much they want to reshape it in the form of their fantasies ie sans Muslims, Xians, other vocal minorities and poor people, with a highly militaristic my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy, with zero corruption, with tight rule of law and super efficient civic services and an economy growing at 10%. Unfortunately, that damn fukularistic Sickular reality keeps rearing its ugly head and ruining these wet dreams. Hence the angst.

it is so weird to be obsessed with a land that one has left and have no intention of returning to. how does it matter what happens to or in india!

The same is true for language, music and culture in general, isn't it?

Let's not forget to include cricket in this list

i've never understood the NRI obsession with the language used in india. as for music and sports, these are things that one may enjoy even if not living in india and have some bearing on one's state of mind. who governs india affects only those who live in india and while it is natural to have an interest and maybe, even an opinion on it, the kind of passion displayed is very abnormal, imo.

bw wrote:
or super poor

this is beyond an interest or worry - more an obsession.

Kris wrote:
>>>The availability of time maybe a factor too.  For me, I have some investments. There is some added interest in the economy due to that.  Outside of that, my interest waxes and wanes depending on time availability.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Kris wrote:
>>>The availability of time maybe a factor too.  For me, I have some investments. There is some added interest in the economy due to that.  Outside of that, my interest waxes and wanes depending on time availability.

Whatever floats ones boat, right? It depends on ones interest. I think information age has brought us NRIs closer to the home. Like many of my contemporaries I've not followed cricket at all for the first few years after arriving to the US but Cricinfo changed all of that.

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:
or super poor

this is beyond an interest or worry - more an obsession.

It is like that saying goes... Are you asking us how is Seetha related to Rama?! The point of this thread is that Modi is the PM of NRIs, so who else would be worried about him on a daily basis?

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

So do you think the Right wing conservatives have the right to hold "Mohammad cartoon" contest in Garland ? or not ?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

So do you think the Right wing conservatives have the right to hold "Mohammad cartoon" contest in Garland ? or not ?

my views on free speech have not changed. why are you so insecure about my beliefs that you have to keep checking periodically? just to see if you get a chance to call me out on some perceived inconsistency?