06-10-2007, 03:32 AM
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<span style='color:red'>Indian Prime Minister: Doctorate but Illiterate</span>
Global Citizen
A scholar of IIT Kharagpur stated: 'Now I understand why I didn't receive any feedback from the PMO when I wrote to them in their web-site suggesting better policy-making for the land acquisition problem, which in present form affects all stakeholders adversely in any project in India. They do have a site, but they can't read or write. How sad! ...
Another scholar from IIT Bombay quipped: 'No, they do read or write selectively, like sniffer dogs; they have been trained to identify words or group of words like 'B-O-M-B'. I know a researcher, who was frustrated with absence of academic voice and absolute lack of meaningful research in policy-making in India. He wrote to the PMO few times, expectedly he received no response. However as farmers continued being murdered by state-administrations or committed suicides; he did shoot of an angry one-liner 'Indian farmers would explode like bomb in a revolt' to the PMO. And he was immediately heard'.
1st Scholar eagerly asked: 'Great! So he was finally heard and his suggestions got incorporated in the policy. So we can expect something good now'.
The 2nd scholar sighed: 'No, manâ¦he is in Tihar Jail now. They could only read the word 'bomb', vacated the PMO as soon as they received his feedback, tracked him down, didn't listen to his arguments, and now he is in Tihar...
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ha..ha..ha. This is hilarious!
I would of course love Manmohan singh to do a Gandhi, by retiring from politics altogether and spend the remainder of his days turning a spinning wheel around and around and around and around and around and around......
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Global Citizen
A scholar of IIT Kharagpur stated: 'Now I understand why I didn't receive any feedback from the PMO when I wrote to them in their web-site suggesting better policy-making for the land acquisition problem, which in present form affects all stakeholders adversely in any project in India. They do have a site, but they can't read or write. How sad! ...
Another scholar from IIT Bombay quipped: 'No, they do read or write selectively, like sniffer dogs; they have been trained to identify words or group of words like 'B-O-M-B'. I know a researcher, who was frustrated with absence of academic voice and absolute lack of meaningful research in policy-making in India. He wrote to the PMO few times, expectedly he received no response. However as farmers continued being murdered by state-administrations or committed suicides; he did shoot of an angry one-liner 'Indian farmers would explode like bomb in a revolt' to the PMO. And he was immediately heard'.
1st Scholar eagerly asked: 'Great! So he was finally heard and his suggestions got incorporated in the policy. So we can expect something good now'.
The 2nd scholar sighed: 'No, manâ¦he is in Tihar Jail now. They could only read the word 'bomb', vacated the PMO as soon as they received his feedback, tracked him down, didn't listen to his arguments, and now he is in Tihar...
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ha..ha..ha. This is hilarious!
I would of course love Manmohan singh to do a Gandhi, by retiring from politics altogether and spend the remainder of his days turning a spinning wheel around and around and around and around and around and around......