India's Missing Superstars

On Monday 23 Apr 2007, The Economics Times reported news about Gallup CEO Jim Clifton visit who is coming next week.

The Gallup World Poll, which is measuring the well being and overall status of the world’s citizen for the next 100 years, it is a mega exercise spanning more than 130 countries and representing 95% of the world’s adult population. The points which he has raised are eye opening for India. Our policy makers who may not have knowledge and wisdom to understand these but must try to read them.

Leaders today have to build new institutions to compete globally.

India has to be able to manage migration patterns to retain its most successful people.

For all those sitting pretty with BRIC report projections, Mr. Clifton had a warning: “The US as an economy was predicted to fall to third place by now, after Germany and Japan. When we compare to the members talked about the projections, today the US has $11 trillion of unplanned, unpredicted income – most of its wealth has generated by a small band of inventors and entrepreneurs, of which half were not Americans and a large part of them were Indians.

India can not lose its superstars!!

Gallup World Poll data from 2006 shows that only about 20% of urban Indians even in the younger age group had even heard of outsourcing or BPO. It is shame for the country like India.

It is a shame to media who remain busy in showing Aishwarya or Prince without giving due considerations to knowledge, information and wisdom. Indian print media and others are failing India.

What a disturbing ground situations of India. I wrote a book in 2005 with main emphasis on the new breeds of youth who are going to shap this nation. These new energetic youth emerging out of call centers and BPOs are going to change the shape of this growing nation. But this survey confirms that knowledge is not that deep in the society. This is a difficult task. How to take these great Indian messages to people when they are wasting time in watching trivial news or information?

There are 16000 publishers in India and they publish 2000 titles. It is a shame for the nation. In spite of this less work output, when you go to publishers, they do not give due attentions to new ideas, books are not getting published. Society remains ignorant. People are not aware about new avenues. Country is at loss.

Can India afford to miss Information opportunity too in desire to save its old culture?

Indians sitting on network fail the data of Gallup. Indian needs to be awakening from their day to day problems to compete with this world.

He surprises with his critical statement. Places like Google celebrate the individual; India does not.

How can Indian inventors and innovators flourish?

How can India grow? Till the time, we learn to respect our talents and assets, India will remain backward. We will have to keep working for reservation for even forward people too. Even on Sulekha, most of our blog writers and readers concentrate on some trivial stories rather than some critical analysis or wisdom. We need to change our attention. We need to change our area of focus. We need to think beyond Cricket, Bachchan, Gandhi etc. to move and prosper.

We all need to think over our deprivations!!

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