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Dear Mani,

>She points to the absence of effective welfare and population policies, and
>the persistence of the Hindu caste system, as causes for India's slide to
>the social levels of sub-Saharan Africa. Indian socialism, on the wane in

Coincidentally, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Senior Minister also touched
on this issue last Saturday at a local function. I reproduce the relevant
portion of his speech as reported in our newspaper. I am not reproducing
this to start a thread. It is merely being reproduced to support what the
Indian columnist has said.

The caption for the side story to the main story reads
" two doormen,two countries,One lesson" and the story goes:
Two doormen in separate countries became a lesson for Singaporeans yesterday.
In the late 1970s,on a trip to India, said Mr Lee Kuan Yew, he saw "no
rapport , no empathy" in an Indian cabinet Minister's reaction to a
doorman's greeting, "A door opener was nothing to the minister because he
was lowly,probably an untouchable".
But on a visit to Tokyo,he sensed, "something electric" between a doorman
and his boss. The boss knows that he owes that door man his life long
employment. And the doorman depended totally on the judgment of the man
above to look after him and his family."
"Without that, the Japanese would not have succeeded. And because they lack
that, the Indian economy has never taken off."
The lesson: Singapore won't succeed if Singaporeans do not care,for one
another, and especially if the more successful don't care for the less
successful."

palani



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