svenkat wrote:What facts?
That Rahul is an idiot and imbecile is well known.But he still has a BA,a M.Phil in Devl E-con(whatever it is) and three years in some consulting group.Each of this degree/job has relevance to the job he is being groomed for.I dont see a huge difference between Rahuls degree etc and the edn/experience son of a big businessman who is groomed to take over.
That you can't see the difference just speaks volumes for how the Congress has managed to s*crew India over & how even erudite folks like you constantly fall for their propaganda, while claiming that they are being unbiased! This is mental colonization pure and simple, sire. In India, trot out a few fancy buzzwords from a handful of foren universities or the local three letters, and automatically deference starts. This actually deserves a doc style pisk post in entirety about the con that is being perpetuated, as versus looking at people who actually do the work & dont boast of fancy credentials! Think about how many people get away with these cons.
So what if he has a BA, a MPhil in whatever and some consulting group job! Look around you - in the India of today, every child of some scion has managed to get by with some degree shegree and work experience! What matters is what they do thereafter. Do they stick it out, or run for a life of affluence and zero responsibility?
If you can't see the difference, God help India & in fact, even He may have given up.
What matters, plain and simple is diligence! Do you or do you not stick a career and get it done? Do you or do you not have passion, interest, sincerity! RG has none of these attributes. He is, as one wag put it, a reluctant groom forced to marry, so that the baraatis can continue with their plans for a wedding feast!
Look at the example given prior of Russi Mody or the recent gent who took over the Tata chairmanship from Ratan Tata. There are umpteen people who were educated in some field and by virtue of grit and sincerity made it in others. They became what they were on the basis of hard work!
They are streets ahead of this man whom you are attempting to defend, since they worked, pure and simple and did not sit around enjoying life and doing photo ops when forced to do so!
The Congress is big business which manages India.It manages multiple identities,multiple conflict of interests.I think Rahuls degrees etc are perfectly right for his job.What does Congress do? It supports Indian businesses,Indian businesses profit making,reservations for OBCs/SCs,jobs for technocrats,subsidies for poor.I suppose Developmental Economics is relevant to this profile.
The congress in many ways is a kleptocracy, to use Matt Taibi's words it is a vampire squid wrapped around the face of India, sucking every bit of blood out for its own benefit. The amount of money that has flown into India post liberalization boggles the mind. What is equally obvious is the utter shambles that is GOI, with corruption creaking out of every edifice, something that was institutionalized by the Congress. And if the earlier quasi civil wars instigated by the Congress in Punjab and Assam, somethings which we endure to this day are not enough, now we have the poison of hindu terror being brewed to court votes with no concern for what its doing to the society at large.
This is the sort of idiocy that has gone on with RG being a willing participant.
You can suppose Developmental Economics is relevant for this profile, but that supposition would fall flat because there is no evidence whatsoever that RG has shown any dedication let alone brilliance in any one field that is related to development OR economics!!
So even if RG trained himself to be a kleptocrat, leading a group of kleptocrats, all the available evidence is that he is mediocre at it. His advisors are venal, he is either phenomenally incompetent or part of the pack.
If he is the former, then some ways we should count our blessings that his leadership may knock the INC a few pegs down (and perhaps one day it may return to an ounce of sanity and honesty and become the INC as versus the PNC). As he is clearly neither a savvy technocrat, or a people person who can take a team along
Until Narendrabhai comes out with a game changing vision for India which has widespread(no need for even majority support much less total) support,there will be people who are benefeting from status quo who will tom tom rahuls 'credentials'.
What does Narendrabhai have to do with the debate on RG's credentials? The discussion is about RG, pure and simple. If anything, it exposes how mediocre RG is, if one brings NM in - here is a man without any fancy claims or pedigree, who has faced unprecedented character assassination, but bu virtue of performance alone has risen to the top. If anything, he just shows how low the standards in India are, when some degrees and cosy posts won on the basis of political privilege are touted as examples of success!!
The Congress is the entrenched party.For it these fake qualifications are good enough to continue the status quo because there are other smart people to run the show from behind.
Is that so? Are those smart people the ones responsible for the near complete absence of law & order in significant portions of this country, the near complete corruption in the same system, the economic mess that is in the country today, the haphazard & graft ridden defence procurement system etc..? Please, enough of this. The so called smart people behind RG are good at winning the elections by manipulating significant sections of an illiterate electorate that looks for short term gains, and manipulating a neutered middle class via bought out media & other methods. None of this makes them admirable, or smart. It makes them venal & absolutely shameful
The person who posted this is AmberGji.She is a Professor of Physics in US(if I understand correctly).She has been single handedly responsible for keeping the maths thread alive since its inception.Hardly someone who can be deceived on academic matters.So I suppose I have a point in X posting her post.
Irrelevant. First, this lady is not residing in India. Those in India suffer the idiocy of the INC, not her. She has happily made her career and life in a country where RG would be thrown out, and whose system warts and all is streets ahead of India. This lady or person, is sitting outside India, doesn't have to suffer the consequences of RGs decision-making and the end result of the support of such experts.
And second, you just demonstrated - yet again - how you constantly fall for the argument from authority angle, even when aforesaid person has no relevance whatsoever in the topic under question!!
Reminds me of the Nobel Laureate who quipped when receiving the award - "now i can proudly comment on womens fashion" etc.
There is a huge group of people, who for the sake of all sorts of reasons, think of the Congress as "theirs" and constantly end up defending it, even whilst reluctantly admitting its "few" faults.
Guess what, it doesn't matter. Because the party that he is heading is venal, is dividing India & has mismanaged the economy even whilst presiding over a loot that would have made Nadir Shah wonder. And instead of recognizing the gravity of the situation, here you are, seeking to somehow quibble over whether this prince has "credentials".
