Sthlm - that is the short form for Stockholm. The city made up of fourteen islands.
This evening, driving over a bridge with the imposing King's palace and Parliament on our left, and on the right the building where the Nobel prizes are given out, I wondered what kind of human energy would allow a sophisticated civilization to thrive in this land of dark freezing winters! In contrast, most of India has much less lethal weather.
Yet there is no energetic frenzy here in the people. It is just a quiet efficient country. Most people work only from 8 am to 4 pm (yes!) and 4 to 5 pm is rush hour. People enjoy a lot of holidays, 6 months maternity leave, 3 months paternity leave... and the country is still so much richer than India. Everyone seems productively employed, efficiently employed.
Productivity is the key... We have to make every Indian productive. PROTON is a small start but a good start.
8 comments:
Dear Sir, I totally agree with you that time does not matter if there is no productivity.
Regards
PROTON Rahul Singhania
Respected Sir,
The concept is excellent. I would like to ask that if this is the start then how we can inculcate this concept atleast to the city level.
- Manish RAMJE
(Fall 09)
Yes Sir, I agree to your statement but we have still a long way to go but this is till the time we 'the Protons' could not enter into the real world, once we enter we will surely make the things better...
Thank You So much for these wonderful insights
Sweden being a nation of around 100 lac people, is fundamentally different from India (11500 lac people). I met this Swedish family while on vacation (in Kerala) and realised a lot of differences!
Great people, the Swedes
Respected Sir
I agree with you but also a bit with Sandeep Sir too. India is a land of 11500 Lac no doubt many of the people rest in peace i mean are not productive. but here i just want to quote a very simple but a practical(to the best of my knowledge) example. Many times we see lots of rallies, "dharnas", strikes, agitations and all such kind of activities around us which keeps engaged thousands and lacs of people around us but what if all of them becomes active..... the result will be huge and immense competition which many people again will not be able to handle and the result again will be unproductive people. so no doubt India has talent which no other country possess but the thing is in this huge population if every Indian is going to be productive then the result could be anything of the two either India would be on the top of the world or it would be nowhere as resources of India I think can never suffice its population.
Thank you
Rahul Mundra
Fall 09
The US is a land of 3000 lakh people. Agreed it has three times the area of India, but still that is one tenth the density, not much less. And the average population density of India is only a few times that of some parts of Western Europe.
I am all for a lower population but have always held that population is not *the* ultimate cause of our ills although it does make change very slow. Of late this view is gaining ground - contrast this with the 1970s when forced sterilization was allegedly introduced in the Emergency. Or consider the hand-wringing over the graying of China.
Our problem is a large population that is unproductive, that does not have any education or technical skills, that does not have the initial capital to buy equipment or other productive assets.
Those from among the population who try to escape this rut find that the going is made tough by the lack of basic services. Take our maid in Gurgaon for example. She earns about 4 or 5 thousand rupees and her husband earns about 6 or 7 thousand. But they cannot get steady electricity to run a fan so they can sleep at night after their hard work, or clean drinking water so that their children are not poisoned. Instead, they have to stand in line for half an hour to get a bucket of yellow water and they have to sleep all night under a tin roof in the hot Delhi summer without even a fan. LPG is subsidized for rich people like me, while they have to buy LPG at three times the normal rate from a black marketeer. Life is a struggle despite the fact that they are in a position to spend some money to smooth out their lives. All this makes it so much more difficult for them to make a definitive move out of the unproductive class by sending their children to school!
Respected Sir,
I believe that Adaptation & willingness is the key to excel in any condition irrespective of state of situation. Their efficiency is replicated in India by enthusiastic behaviour which probably distinguishes us from others.
With Regards
Nikhil Sukhlecha
Fall09
Dear Sir,
The blog written by you is really insightful. You'r discussion with Sandeep Sir and Rahul gave a lot of insights. This is the power of blogging.
Thanks & Regards
Mayank Umraode
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