Age Old Game - Blame Game to Win Sympathy

Blame Game – Is west responsible for east misery?

If East has not exploited Industrial Revolution, leadership of developing countries should look internally. Why only leadership, even the intelligentsia’s mis-information creates contradictions in the growth of civilization. The right information is not reaching to right people at right time.

The growth of electronics industries remained untapped by the developing world. The semi-automatic and automatic machines based on the electronics circuitry were never exploited for the benefit of the people of developing world. The inventions remain with west. The products like Intel or Microsoft were used by the people all over the world. The benefit certainly went to the inventor and that is west.

Information technology especially services part could develop because of its technological depth. In this field, logic and conventional wisdom did not work. It became difficult for the governments of developing world to put hurdle. Now, governments of few countries from East have shown remarkable shift from the traditional wisdom to grab the opportunities. However, many countries lacked behind miserably. Just take the example of very successful venture of an IT company called Infosys. After 23 years of long struggle, Infosys could make $2 billion; while on the other hand, Bill Gates alone earns around $20 billion every year.

The reason appears to me quite simple. The leaders and media from developing countries are concentrating on trivial issues rather than focusing on innovation. People talk about innovation but they hardly have knowledge, courage and wisdom to understand and accept innovation.

Just take the example of Indian Prime Minister. He is supposed to be one of the most educated PM of recent past. He knows economy, he is aware about growth requirements; he is concerned about India’s poor, but see the scarcity of wisdom in his speeches. Recently, he is again using the very old game of east to blame west for poor shows.


Manmohan uses the act of blaming and begging simultaneously when he says, “West’s green drive can’t be at poor world’s cost”. He further says, “The new environmentally-friendly technologies being developed must be shared and made available to all of us so that the planet is saved”. India should take some steps to achieve development. As a Prime Minister, he must try to formulate the plan of the nation to achieve these objectives rather than blaming West.

Manmohan Singh said that developed industrial economies must realise that they should alter their consumption patterns so that so few do not draw upon so much of the Earth’s resources. There has been a set pattern of the leaders of developing world in blaming the developed people to counsel the citizens. The statement given by the rime Minister could be same what Jawaharlal Nehru would have talked in 50s or Indira Gandhi talked in 70s or 80s and then Rajiv talked in 80s. The country should look inward to find the reasons. Even in India, there is so much difference between states. Can Jalandhar be ready to reduce Heart hospitals to redistribute resources to other not so developed part of the country? The answer can be big no. Anybody who has developed after lot of struggles and efforts would not like to simply give away resources. Even if rich people give resource, what is the guarantee that it will reach to poor. Even Oprah Winfrey could not get that assurance, how will others get?

Why Prime Minister wastes time in talking like this. In whole of his speech, he has hardly touched the reasons of India’s dismal growth in science R&D in last decade. When there has been 100% increase in science R&D in China, there has been only 3% in India. Science in India is in shambles. Prime Minister should have intimated the country about the proposals submitted by SA Mashelkar before retiring from the post. There is absolutely no need to keep the country in dark on our failure. Why should we blame others?

The other minister while addressing the fifth Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas said, “We need investments in areas like infrastructure, agriculture, education, drinking water and health.” What a statement by a cabinet minister? What Indian government is doing? The government is unable to take care of any area. In education, they can do only reservations. He further says, “It is essential that the states lagging behind carry out needed reforms so that they can attract investments which are important for growth and poverty alleviation.” My point is that when reforms are needed for poverty alleviation, why central government is working on Rural Employment Scheme? Why not reforms? Why we are not concentrating on sorting out the problems of land acquisition for SEZ which is so necessary for growth?

There are many heads and leaders who need to clarify their speeches to make it more relevant to well informed society. The leaders appear ignorant. They show their lack of vision. They are unable to appreciate the future need of the nation. They are unable to see the changed world order. They are unable to comprehend the future world order.