Response to Financial Times article title 'Investors put too much faith on Modi turn around'

hi David,

This letter is in response to the Financial Times article title 'Investors put too much faith on Modi turn around' on Financial Times dated January 30th 2014.

Obviously, you seemed to get your view from news from typical English medium of press.  Usually that news is tilted towards the left (you can read communist).

They try to judge Modi by the worst apprehensions of Critics,  Kejriwal (AAP leader &  Delhi chief minister) by his intensions and Rahul ( the congress hopeful) by the looks'. They don’t judge none of them by their deeds.

You need to understand that this English medium press does not reflect the view of the mainstream electorate.

Here are some of the myths that you have carried in your article. 

You are mentioning about the 'alleged development of Gujarat'.  It’s not alleged. It’s real. Out of the many achievements of Modi, two are outstanding: they are uninterrupted electricity and water supply in Gujarat.  When rest of India was growing at 9%, Gujarat was growing on separeate faster track with 13% GDP.

There have been studies by university academics who have conducted the human resource index measurements also (grudgingly - because of leftist  orientation) accept the overall improvement in the living conditions of the people. 

BJP is not a one man ( or one woman) controlled party, it has its own think tank, that will guide the economic policies.  Modi will provide the necessary leadership.

The hype about AAP is unjustified. BJP is a national party with pan-India presence. In the state elections held less than 2 months ago, BJP won 5 out of 6 states. Even in Delhi BJP was the single largest party. 

The English medium press still keeps praising the number 2 party i.e AAP as if it’s a big show stopper. It would be very surprising if AAP wins more than 10 parliamentary seats. 

I do agree with the tile of your article 'Investors put too much faith on Modi turn around'. Its because BJP is business friendly in its policies. 

Response to the Financial Times Editorial column on 10th January, 2014 titled 'Modern India and Medieval values'

This letter is in response to the Financial Times Editorial column on 10th  January, 2014 titled 'Modern India and Medieval values'.  The article merely mentions the heavy handed behaviour of the U.S treatment of an Indian diplomat, where as it sees the reciprocation of India in poor light. 

You need to understand that the Indian public opinion, not just in India but even Indians abroad are delighted to see such strong response from India. 

Let me tell how U.S and the West (in general) behaves when their citizens violate the law when they are abroad.  Few months ago 2 Italian marines killed 2 Indian fisherman in the Indian waters ( they were contracted for security of an oil tanker). They got arrested lawfully on Indian soil for their crime . The accused had fully access to Italian council officials.  They were released on bail with assurance from Italian Embassy.  

The 2 accused Italian marines fled the country saying that they had out-of-court settlement with the victim's family. The high-court of Kerala got furious.  Indian government had to summon Italian Ambassador and warn them of this shameful behaviour.

Last year when a American citizen killed 2 people in Pakistan. The U.S government paid money and brought it back home without any court proceedings. If U.S respects law so much, why cant it let the U.S national face the court proceedings in Pakistan. Its all hipocracy. This a consistent behaviour of the west. It belittles the judiciary system in the east. 

It does not matter even if the Indian Diplomat was wrong. Its a petty offence, compared to the 2 other offences that I mentioned earlier, where people got killed and their western government stood for their citizens.

I was laughing out loud when I read the line 'India does not minimum wage' in the article.  Yes. India does not have minimum wage because Indians don't middle with markets.  My setting minimum wage, the west actually determines how much the haircut should cost.  In reality that's what it translates to. 

Living conditions of people of relative to the overall living conditions in a society.  If you stop the benefit system here then  the living conditions of those people live on them also will be different.  So stop prescribing your problems as solutions to others. 

We Indians are delighted to see India throwing 'the books of rules' on U.S face.  

Diplomacy  is a two way process. You will be treated the way you treat others.

(letter for sent via email on 30th Jan 2014: still response awaited. )