Written by a Pakistani Journalist about INDIA
Written by a Pakistani journalist about India.......
By Dr Farrukh Saleem
Here's what is happening in India :
The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.
In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 bill ion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.
In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned forty-four three weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday gift:
A sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless communication and a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and Mukesh is not India 's richest but the second richest.
Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance.. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four floors above the guest floors are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea On top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family and their family home.
In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct investment destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the top 25 countries.
In 2004, the United Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested the Election Commission of India to assist the UN in the holding elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election Commission of Indiaand not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi .
Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in Americaare Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.
Pakistan have a chance to smile also:Everything is not doom n gloom for Pakistan.
A good majority of the Al Qaeeda operatives are funded by pakistan.Pakistan is infamously known as the epicentre of all terror activities in the world.99% of insurgents sneaking into India are Pak origins.The percentage of people under the poverty line in Pakistan is astronomical than India.Pakistan may be the most corrupt Cricket team in the world.Recent floods shoed a horrendous condtion of the country's infrastructure on the media-- still the y have got Nuke(With that money they could have fed a good sum of their population).
Why follow the footsteps of " Richer" neighbours.....
For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail. Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham.
Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project. Four out of ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians. Bollywood produces 800 movies per year and six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.
For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore.India now has more than three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire).
The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around $56 billion).
Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome haplogroup. We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker (namely: M124).
We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same movies and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians have and we don't?
INDIANS ELECT THEIR LEADERS!!!!!
And also to mention: They think of Construction of own nation, unlike other nations who are just concerned with destruction of others...
Simple answer to why the Indians far better than the Pakistanis - They don't focus on religion all the time and neither do they spend time and money in devising ways to kill their own and everyone else over religion.
wk
everyone has a bashing side, some want to show it, others not. and i'm the first one ;O)
Hey saeedkan....maybe mmyke is refering to Slum dog millionare!!!!
Cryspy he isn't a basher, he doesn't spend all his time searching for Anti-India articles, his food had nothing to do with it ;)
would that be Asian indians in those stats, or American;-P
what I don't understand is why you are bringing it up here..?
Both countries have poverty and large slums. Nearly 400 million people in India live on less than 2 dollars a day.
xxxpat
for your reference
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/1335626?page=2
see how were U defended ;)
mmyke
slightly disagree
both countries have a record number of slums.
poor and ill people everywhere,,,can't drink the water,,,dirty and unhealthy, crawling with unhealthy animals...,,, overpouring with poor people who are not getting help.... desperate, desperate..
mod pls delete this thread asap, its annoying & not good for ql atmosphere... block the bashers in the thread, i humbly request YOU
slums
another "we are not insignificant" thread
But I also love haggis, black pudding and a good bacon sarnie ;)
Plus if India is such high econmy nation, high standards, more money...why you all cannot be accomodated there and serve your country...why we find that in all money making areas - indians are there to earn as much as possible at every level - - see there is no best place other than your own country - - nobdy leaves the country until need be...may it be financial or else....so all thos who are paraising here so much....we all are expats..and we are here due to some circumstance...and it means that somehoew we didt not find sufficient in our own countires..and found better here..thaswhy we all left our home coutnires to work here... being patriotic is good - bt being biasd is terrrible...
The litmus paper test for a nation to be good..is that country can accomodate and fulfil need of its people without any external help...With all billionaires and growing makret investments...we find Indian expats in more and more number across the world. why?
Now dont say that coutiores find qaulity in idian - we all knw that this is nt the case... so see the mirror first...tkae soem lesson from history- - and dont be an over patriotic. lol
Foryousantro....
Thanks a lot for showing us the real picture of indians. everybody can see an idian heart through you and how loving and good natured and good hearted ppl are idians - thanks thtat you opened that all.
you are always one... one kashmir. one khalistan, one kerala.. he ehe ehe ehe e - - open your eys dear.
You definitely are gr8888 nation - u see just yestrday news in Gulftimes about scammers from dubai - - wow great work one great nation can plot such thing and thts how you transfer money.
you talking about McDONADs,...just got there and see how many these chains are ther for almost all international brands...you are living in fools paradise....you want to see infrastructure of roads - take a road visit and see yourself. and its for everybody and not for only elite class.
Yes we do stone woman who involves in adultery (this is religion..we do not burn them when thier husband die..we dont burn them when they do not bring dowry for marriage)...but we do not ask them to stripteas and then let men insert other then stone everything together in them - just as you do. so you quote expmaple of your filmstars..thst it??... entertaining with bunch of naked girls and semi naked boys to allure westrn and arab world - - you think we dont undestand all this politics...see man this article is by a Pakistnai... not by an indian - see how open minded and open hearted ppl we are - we dint tk anybody's credit.... so eat shit..live in shit and die in shit you moron.
And always remeber its people like you who create hatred. pepole like you are actually dnagerous cfor india itself...because negative thing always standsout.
exexexpat
actually Ariend didn't know it, that U are a "Curry Lover" ;)
leave their countries and go in search of a better opportunity. I don't find it surprising that it means a select few will go to India to work, do you? It's not that different from Indians in much larger numbers flocking to the Gulf.
It would be nice if India could employ more of their own and such a large number didn't have to work in bad conditions here in the GCC, wouldn't it? I hope that happens some day.
ex.ex.expat a small clip for you to watchand realise the changes happening. Thanks
If only our grandparents would read this, would be shocked ...m sure did not even imagine " INDIANS would one day be divided by some tress-passers into PAKISTANIS AND INDIANS"
Good that the british came, at least we know how weak we were, takes just a forward for us to create a conflict...
INDIA was divided into 3, if was divided into 30 then today Punjabi's would hate Malayali's, Gujrati's would hate Bengali's and Kashmiris would have Tamilians.....
TODAY u say we are 1...this is what 'U" said even b4 partition...
I might not be as qualified or as intelligent like many of you here, but do know the diff between good and bad.
Few politicians like GHANDI/JINNAH/NEHRU for their personal interest divided the nation but u people still celerate ghandi Jayanti, Children's day( Nehrus Bday)... May be some day for Mr Jinnah too...
But who even remembers BHAGAT SINGH, who celebrates the bday of SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE.....????
They fought for freedom, for our freedom for the freedom of 1 INDIA....
i can write a lot on truth, but in just 2 words i would conclude..
GROWUP & JAIHIND
even Churchill was defensive for longer period, when German were dominated in WWII :P
I am simply surprised he didn't check his facts. Even Indians have questioned the quote made by the PM and chalked it up to the "bragging nature" of many Indians (their words, not mine).
Are you always this defensive? Or can we have a discussion without silly squabbling?
and being an oldest democratic country in the world (if i'm not mistaken), ever Britain's claimed that they had often called by UN, for observing elections in most of the countries?
so here we go again
"A crap and bu1l$8it column, written by a Pakistani journalist, who actually needs a medical asylum." ;O)
Sorry, I am not understanding your point and question...?
Are you relating Britain or France to this article by the Pakistani journalist? I'm not following you...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/indians-are-a-force-in-us-but-beware-of-statistics_10027868.html
Indian professionals in the US truly make India proud, but the statistics quoted in parliament to highlight their contributions are either overstated or unverifiable, a scrutiny of available data reveals. Minister of State for Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari had sought to reveal some statistics in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house, last week, ascribing impressive numbers to Indians who are contributors to the US’ knowledge economy.
Thirty-eight percent of doctors in the US are Indians, as are 36 percent of the scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and 34 percent of Microsoft employees, the minister said.
The statistics have since invited critical comments on the internet, with many bloggers and internet chain mails describing the data as being exaggerated and with no verifiable claims - even as some others defended the Indian minister.
“You can’t blame just Indian politicians for faulty data,” said Vivek Wadhwa, a Harvard fellow and Duke University professor, who also said that US companies cannot ask employees about their ethnicity.
“US senators and congressmen have been citing inflated numbers on the graduation rates of engineers in India and China versus the US,” added Wadhwa, who has led a study at Duke on engineering and globalisation.
Only broader questions whether an employee is an Asian or a Pacific islander can be posed, he said and estimated the number of Indians at Microsoft operations at 10 percent at best and not 34 percent as suggested by the Indian minister.
The data on doctors evokes similar answer, with a spokesperson for the American Medical Association saying out of 900,000 doctors in the US, 720,000 actually see patients and of them 48,000 have degrees from India.
This places the share of Indian doctors in the US at 10 percent - the largest among all physicians educated in the US, but not 38 percent as stated in the Rajya Sabha.
This also corroborates the data available with the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), that claims a membership of more than 40,000 doctors and another 15,000 medical students and residents.
Inder Singh, the international president of the Global Organisation of Persons of Indian Origin, adds that the AAPI has few second generation Indians as members - and that even by that count one can barely get past the 10 percent mark.
On NASA numbers, Inder Singh said, there are a good number of Indians - and not just astronaut Sunita Williams - working for the space agency but they are far less in numbers than the 36 percent as cited by the Indian minister.
doesn't have much of an impact on the average bloke's life. I suspect the same is true of India.
and I am surprised the Pakistani journalist bought into the Indian hype without checking his facts. :(
one more plz
if Tony Bliar's (forgive my spell mistake)built one of the most sophisticated palace some where in Caribbean island, will this will have an impact on average Britain life?
"In the US, Indians and Indian-Americans make up the largest non-Caucasian segment of the American medical community, where they account for one in every 20 practicing doctors."
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/indian-doctors-help-fill-us-health-care-needs
Wonder why this fake "statistic" keeps being promoted? hmm... ;)
ignorant claims. ;P
thnx xxpat
for clarifying
i think, now i can sleep well ;O)
and this was refuted before:
"The nearly 30,000 Indian American physicians constitute nearly 5 percent of the profession"
http://www.littleindia.com/news/139/ARTICLE/1945/2007-12-03.html
There are numerous other sources you can find with a simple google.
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"Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in Americaare Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians"
I, as a Pakistani, am not offended by this article. Infact, I am really grateful to the original poster for sharing these words of wisdom, written by the most intellectual Pakistani because...such threads always help me to know the true face of 'some' Indian QLers. They would just spit out their hatred against us when they are provided a chance.
And Yes, I agree...There is no comparison between India & Pakistan.
Bundle of thanks, once again. Be blessed.
finally something good for Indians by a Pakistani.
Hope none of Indian will have any complain against them ;O)
The key sentence is "We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same movies and sing the same songs."
Rather than always trying to prove that one is better than the other, perhaps it would be better to focus on the commonalities and rejoice.
Hello Sadheel
Thank you for that elaborate detailing of India's wealthy. The secret to the success of these people & Indians as a whole is just two things
" Indian's realise their mistakes
They try not to repeat those mistakes "
Every suceess follows this one principle....an example Sak10 is the babri masjid issue...Every one including Indians expected 1992 to repeat after the verdict...but it did not...
Those maids are paid....check a dictionary ...slaves dont get paid....I salute those thousands of maids who are taking care of homes & kids of people irrespective of which nationality they are & contributing to the welfare of their own families back home...
Hiding women inside 4 walls is not protecting them...India is marching forward not because an established nation was handed down to them but ...our men & women are working hard to stabilise their own homes.
Secure Homes ... Stable Society .... Wealthy Nation...thats the path of progress
Remember...when u fling dirt at others...your hands get dirty too....
wow, what an interesting stuff available to read from last few posters, where have u been guyz till now ;b
rat & cockcroach...
It is ok to work as maid than to work as -----. If you don't know just visit sharjah and dubai and find out what pak girls are doing. Really making good money.
comparing india and pakistan is like comparing apple and orange...its better to compare india now to india 10 20 30 or 40 years ago.
we muslim cannot simply take things for granted .....there are laws to follows, everything must be HALAL
Sak10, but yesterday when Ayodhya verdict came out all political and communal parties pleaded for peace and everybody accepted the court verdict happily in India, while in Pakistan some islamic parties protested in karachi and queta against the verdict.
How ridiculous.
Helloooooooooo - - is babri masjid controversy happening in some other india?
its a sick article by sick person. If know some history, paksitan was built by leftover, those people left behind everything and rebuilt the state. India ramined as is and so was the wealth. India jsut carried on after 1947 with sufficient resources, whereas Pakistan created from scratch with almost zero capital. Still.... the division of money is far better in Paksitan than in India. In india you will find tycoons of wealth and millions of people killing their duaghters because they cannot afford a single plate of rice. so instead comparing paksitan---its beter to compare india from indians.... you will find indian in almost all money making part of the world like termites. havent you seen here..indian girls with almost all nationalities men...to get money they have sold out evrything.
Why there are plenty of indian maids in each arab national household...why not even a single Paksitani maid...because still Paksitan doesnt need to send there innocent girls to serve as a slave....but Indian goverment instead having all the money.....not taking any chance to loos any penny.
There can absolutely be no comparison between new found land and the existing hundreds year old state.
and yes Pakistan came first as nuclear power state. and yes Paksitan intellgence is far bwetter - they are not using blackberries to goofups.
That's an interesting article,but i would hope our Pakistani friends on QL will not take this in a negative way.
Otherwise they wouldn't work as "Slaves" in Qatar.
And many are very, very poor.
Indians are very very rich.
nice article..
posted some years back
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/62081
article is gud...!! India also hav pblms based on religion...
Hi, appricite your views....
Joe?
India also has its own problems with religious extremism. The Hindu nationalist BJP was even in power for while.
It will be interesting to hear the views of Pakistanis regarding the above article.