12-07-2005, 05:26 PM
someone said in the gandhi's legacy thread, about how 800 years of getting hammered under muslims, left people in the hindi heartland so lacking in self respect and guts, that the vast majority of them did not have in them to join the armed revolt proposed by bipin pal, sarvarkar and netaji..... but meanwhile gandhi's "safe" ahimsha concept had many takers.
i feel 150 years of bearing the brunt of british colonialism and economic exploitation, and then having had the best 2/3rd part of their province amputed from them, has left bengalis economically gutless. there are ready takers in wb for education based means of livelihood, but few would attempt to get into retail even, let alone high risk, investment-intensive business.
just a connection i couldnt fail to see.
besides having an overdose of elitocracy in its past, and then 30 years of leftist crap have made them anti-capitalistic and sort of utopian.
all said and done, i dont believe wb and calcutta arnt good for industry (except manufacturing sector which provides blue collar jobs to rag tag people who can easily be brainwashed with commie-union crap) - cos the birlas, goenkas, and dalmiyas and a host of others do very brisk business and have produced some of the biggest companies.
i also dont believe that bengalis arnt inherently bad at business. cos i have seen/heard of, many in delhi and abroad. and they have a street long list of people in top positions in various companies in india as well as abroad, not the least, one mr rajot gupta (global chairman, mckenzie)
i feel 150 years of bearing the brunt of british colonialism and economic exploitation, and then having had the best 2/3rd part of their province amputed from them, has left bengalis economically gutless. there are ready takers in wb for education based means of livelihood, but few would attempt to get into retail even, let alone high risk, investment-intensive business.
just a connection i couldnt fail to see.
besides having an overdose of elitocracy in its past, and then 30 years of leftist crap have made them anti-capitalistic and sort of utopian.
all said and done, i dont believe wb and calcutta arnt good for industry (except manufacturing sector which provides blue collar jobs to rag tag people who can easily be brainwashed with commie-union crap) - cos the birlas, goenkas, and dalmiyas and a host of others do very brisk business and have produced some of the biggest companies.
i also dont believe that bengalis arnt inherently bad at business. cos i have seen/heard of, many in delhi and abroad. and they have a street long list of people in top positions in various companies in india as well as abroad, not the least, one mr rajot gupta (global chairman, mckenzie)