Comments on: The Trouble With Businessweek http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/ Wed, 23 May 2012 11:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Acorn » Gucci doesn’t trump Gandhi http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-479922 The Acorn » Gucci doesn’t trump Gandhi Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:39:44 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-479922 [...] Sominism is spreading. It’s affecting another of of America’s great newspapers. [...] [...] Sominism is spreading. It’s affecting another of of America’s great newspapers. [...]

]]> By: The Acorn » Sunday Levity: A cheat sheet for Sominists http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-453600 The Acorn » Sunday Levity: A cheat sheet for Sominists Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:13:09 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-453600 [...] has dispatched into the stands, over the bowler’s head. The word “Sominism” was coined by GreatBong.] Permalink | « We don’t need no indecisive [...] [...] has dispatched into the stands, over the bowler’s head. The word “Sominism” was coined by GreatBong.] Permalink | « We don’t need no indecisive [...]

]]> By: FDi http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-291355 FDi Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:06:26 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-291355 <strong>FDi...</strong> ... FDi…

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]]> By: Srinivas http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-180501 Srinivas Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:42:21 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-180501 @Shadows: If it is still not obvious, and you actually care to form an informed opinion, please google for the current tele-density statistics segregated for rural and urban India given either by the Government, International Telecommunications Union (I.T.U) or those Companies who you think have changed the villages. Next time, without "supposing" anything, visit a village which is located a bit further away from a Highway, or surroundings of a city (which is referred as a suburban area). Stay a little while longer than for answering natures call and ask if any companies have created jobs for the villagers there? Besides, a telephone connection may be the index of development for the urban educated Indian living in the information age, but does mere connectivity mean development for the villagers too? @Shadows: If it is still not obvious, and you actually care to form an informed opinion, please google for the current tele-density statistics segregated for rural and urban India given either by the Government, International Telecommunications Union (I.T.U) or those Companies who you think have changed the villages.

Next time, without “supposing” anything, visit a village which is located a bit further away from a Highway, or surroundings of a city (which is referred as a suburban area). Stay a little while longer than for answering natures call and ask if any companies have created jobs for the villagers there? Besides, a telephone connection may be the index of development for the urban educated Indian living in the information age, but does mere connectivity mean development for the villagers too?

]]> By: Sayon http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-176526 Sayon Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:10:34 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-176526 @Shadows: My mobile works in the city, on the highway, and in many villages on the bus route. However I've visited many places, especially in smaller villages and towns where no network is available. Rural connectivity is not as good as we'd like it to be. @Shadows: My mobile works in the city, on the highway, and in many villages on the bus route. However I’ve visited many places, especially in smaller villages and towns where no network is available. Rural connectivity is not as good as we’d like it to be.

]]> By: shadows http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-176489 shadows Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:43:49 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-176489 Try asking someone from a remote rural area which mobile service works best there. Companies like Airtel, Idea etc. make their millions on urban ignoramuses like you who seem to take their company ads about reaching rural areas at face value. =============== I suppose even rural areas have good mobile connectivity now. Not just BSNL, my connection works in rural areas surrounding the city, on the highway, remote villages where the bus stops for a loo break, etc.. Guess who is the ignoramus.. Try asking someone from a remote rural area which mobile service works best there. Companies like Airtel, Idea etc. make their millions on urban ignoramuses like you who seem to take their company ads about reaching rural areas at face value.
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I suppose even rural areas have good mobile connectivity now. Not just BSNL, my connection works in rural areas surrounding the city, on the highway, remote villages where the bus stops for a loo break, etc..

Guess who is the ignoramus..

]]> By: S. Pyne http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-168556 S. Pyne Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:25:05 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-168556 Post script: Tom Friedman has been reminding the Americans thru his popular NYTimes column that the Mid East is not the real story of our times; it is happening in the rise of China and India. Along similar lines (of reasoning), I have generally stopped bothering about the habitual bias in the hackneyed Indo/Pak/Kashmir coverage by the Western media since the real exciting stories, the coverage of which really matters today, are mostly about the profound socio-economic transformations in the Indian subcontinent seen thru the outsider's view - ranging in quality from gems of wisdom to cow-curry-caricature. Here, for instance, is a wonderful story, quite a long one at that, which appeared today ('Paradise, in Contract,' March 18) in Sunday NY Times written by Somini Sengupta, the chief of its South Asia bureau - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/realestate/keymagazine/318Boom.t71602..html Besides the length and the research (you can hardly expect a comprarable effort to appear in an Indian English daily, although possibly in a magazine), there are serious human and industrial observations, touching on both boon and bane with equal sensibility, along with such issues of core relevance around the economic/real estate boom as the pressures on individuals, environment and administration, as well as people's direct views. To me this makes it a fabulous (India) story, and worthy of Sunday NY Times... And possibly why we might in future be thankful for such journalistic pieces that had appeared "at a time in history when change in global as well as domestic perception of Indian people’s accurate status was critical." Post script:

Tom Friedman has been reminding the Americans thru his popular NYTimes column that the Mid East is not the real story of our times; it is happening in the rise of China and India. Along similar lines (of reasoning), I have generally stopped bothering about the habitual bias in the hackneyed Indo/Pak/Kashmir coverage by the Western media since the real exciting stories, the coverage of which really matters today, are mostly about the profound socio-economic transformations in the Indian subcontinent seen thru the outsider’s view – ranging in quality from gems of wisdom to cow-curry-caricature.

Here, for instance, is a wonderful story, quite a long one at that, which appeared today (‘Paradise, in Contract,’ March 18) in Sunday NY Times written by Somini Sengupta, the chief of its South Asia bureau -
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/realestate/keymagazine/318Boom.t71602..html

Besides the length and the research (you can hardly expect a comprarable effort to appear in an Indian English daily, although possibly in a magazine), there are serious human and industrial observations, touching on both boon and bane with equal sensibility, along with such issues of core relevance around the economic/real estate boom as the pressures on individuals, environment and administration, as well as people’s direct views. To me this makes it a fabulous (India) story, and worthy of Sunday NY Times…

And possibly why we might in future be thankful for such journalistic pieces that had appeared “at a time in history when change in global as well as domestic perception of Indian people’s accurate status was critical.”

]]> By: Partha Sarathy http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-166718 Partha Sarathy Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:51:35 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-166718 Dr VS Rao Director of (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) "BITS Pilani" Hyderabad campus may think that Chandrababu Naidu was wrong in considering Economics as more important than politics. Who told Economics is urban and politics is for rural? Bihar gave importance to politics instead of economics and see the state of affairs there. Bhagavat Gita says that you cannot do good somewhere without doing bad somewhere else and vice versa. Naidu did not mean to do bad for rural and intended to do good for urban. In West Bengal Left Front used to give importance to Rural and win all votes there but used to loose seats in Kolkata city. Naidu's Urban development with subsequent rural benefits was indeed wise thinking. Success is not to be measured by CM designations, elections fought and seats won but by the enormous obstacles which were overcome and there is no doubt that with Economic Focus Chandrababu Naidu is indeed a success which PIGEON headed fellows have failed to appreciate. Dr VS Rao Director of (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) “BITS Pilani” Hyderabad campus may think that Chandrababu Naidu was wrong in considering Economics as more important than politics. Who told Economics is urban and politics is for rural? Bihar gave importance to politics instead of economics and see the state of affairs there. Bhagavat Gita says that you cannot do good somewhere without doing bad somewhere else and vice versa. Naidu did not mean to do bad for rural and intended to do good for urban. In West Bengal Left Front used to give importance to Rural and win all votes there but used to loose seats in Kolkata city. Naidu’s Urban development with subsequent rural benefits was indeed wise thinking. Success is not to be measured by CM designations, elections fought and seats won but by the enormous obstacles which were overcome and there is no doubt that with Economic Focus Chandrababu Naidu is indeed a success which PIGEON headed fellows have failed to appreciate.

]]> By: The trouble with phoren press « / India / Bangalore / things http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-163115 The trouble with phoren press « / India / Bangalore / things Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:55:50 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-163115 [...] [The very popular GreatBong has a few more in his take on this BusinessWeek rant should you want to read on] [...] [...] [The very popular GreatBong has a few more in his take on this BusinessWeek rant should you want to read on] [...]

]]> By: GauravBhai http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-163110 GauravBhai Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:47:27 +0000 http://greatbong.net/2007/03/11/the-trouble-with-businessweek/#comment-163110 BongDa, I love the phrase, "Western 'Sominism'". Just note the <a href="http://chawla.blogspot.com/2007/02/glass-half-empty.html" rel="nofollow">headlines</a> of Somini's articles. BongDa, I love the phrase, “Western ‘Sominism’”. Just note the headlines of Somini’s articles.

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