Excellent discussion. The emphasis, I hope, shifts from considering an
improved uniform to issues of organizational leadership. There is a mismatch between what still works at the ground level in most of India, and what works inside the corporate parks/'burbs of Blooru and Hybad and iPhone Valley.
One sees the other as hopelessly stuck in Baithaks and prostrating themselves b4 one another. The other sees the one as completely out of touch with India as it really is. Both are right to some extent. What has now taken over India seems a mix of giddy VC type bijnej models, some brilliant micro/macro models, and I fear, some of the worst 'sell everything now' aspects of desi bijnej practices where real painstaking innovation (such as in defense R&D) has no hope.
The Arr Ess Ess does have an unparalleled window of opportunity to rethink and reinvent itself, assimilating the best of its traditional strengths with modern opportunities and some hard re-thinking on how to adopt the best of that rather than the superficial.
(OK, I am on a yak-trek in the Ulan Bator mtns, hopefully most of the dung coming at this post will be aimed as well as Yookrainian artillery onlee)
And no, I have never been to any Arr Ess Ess shaka mtg, but there used to be one next door, all good friends of mine. The Wheel has come around: things that some us fought very hard for, have won. But I think the CarpetBaggers are overrunning India now, and I don't see any power active, that can pull the nation around to what really matters.
If this keeps up, in 5 years, 600 million who now don't have a thing to their name, will have bank accounts and life insurance and 1900-level potties all over the villages and 1960-level potties in all the motels with 800AD level maintenance thereof. A huge improvement. And the 600 million will use their mobile phones which can access e(Z)-Governance and cast their votes - for the Congi. Like what happened in 2004 after the greatest positive turnaround of the Indian economy, opportunities and foreign affairs. India
swept India Shining into the dustbin then, and it can happen again.
I am waiting to see what happens on Sep. 27-30. The signs are already ominous: the Madison Gardens tamasha has been taken over by the Usual Herrows, well experienced in wheelingNDealing with the YouPeeAy.