We need to let certain facts set in.
The posting on Amazon making huge sales has instigated me to write briefly for want of time what I have in volumes to convey.
Business is global and global economic powers decide selective protectionism and collective sabotage. They can manipulate using quota, sanctions etc.
World leaders see trade as one more weapon in their artillery.
Citizens anywhere and anyhow have the option of choosing what is beneficial to them.
Smaller economies cannot afford to harp on protectionism under any name or rule.
When we fail to create institutions with facilities and faculties of the standard of Harvard or Princeton ( when we can do so easily) for years we pay in lakhs ( sometimes in crores) and choose to provide an almost life of servile obedience for our Indian students movements which are constantly under scanner in the name of academic discipline.
What is preventing India or Indian companies from selling its crops and food products like wheat, sugar, onion etc when there is excess production at low prices and kill others sellers in other countries with our low prices?
What is preventing Indian government from setting hospitals with best facilities and pay fat salaries to good and efficient doctors and retain them here?
What prevents India from providing great infrastructure and promote tourism. Why not an elevated metro or big winch connecting. Shimla , Mount Abu, Tirupathy, kanyakumari , Konarak and Assam?
ITC and TAJ group of hotel today won't get investment but OYO and MakemyTrip will get it because they are able to market space, hotel is no more hospitality industry it is space selling business where the food a customer wants can be ordered from outside.
Automobile is not a car or van manufacturing industry it is mobility industry.
Family or individual consumption is not item specific. I may buy a cooker, television, dress, mobile and medicines for myself or other members of my family if I can order all of these online at a cheaper price rather than travelling to various places, spending time , energy struggling for parking space or waiting for transport options. So, all purchases are consumption industry. No more home needs, pharma , garments etc.
India is exporting it's cheap manpower either skilled or highly educated or qualified to the same US where they need to pay 4 times the salary to their own citizens and that's why they are grumbling.
If consumers are anointed as the kings, then goods and services providers are the queens.
Then quality, cost and prices are the aspects of romance.
Let us remember that in love and war anything and everything is justifiable or justified
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What prevents any Indian entrepreneurs from engaging in these types of legalised transnational marketing and sales ( no more import or export) if one may call them so, of online trading.
We have TRAI which went nonexistent when AIRCELL closed its operations overnight. We have RBI which is silent when PMC has let down millions of people of their hard earned money.
So, when our own institutions are not able to control or ensure service or security despite all the good intentions and great efforts of the present government how can we even think of exercising any control over some international players.
In the same Pune area SUVARNA SAHAKARI CO-OP bank and before that similar CO-OP banks not only went bankrupt ( euphemism for either misuse of funds or abuse of customer faith or both) and the burden of loss was shifted to IOB. When there is history of middle class poor small investors getting duped by chitfunds in Tamil Nadu and Bengal and co-operative banks cheating in Maharastra then both the authorities giving permission and the gullible public must be vigilant or stop encouraging such entities.
Indian government, especially, the present government which is prioritizing economic development must incentivise big businesses and investors to build great universities of excellence and hospitals of greatest care and specialization.
We have two vital elements for both these activities qualified people with relevant skill sets , vast areas of land and perhaps even some big investors both in India and overseas willing to invest why not encourage that?
Has Indian government ever quantified monetarily the vast amounts that get out of India for higher studies to USA, UK, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, RUSSIA, NEWZEALAND etc.
Rather study overseas is a brand which gets proudly imported and even inducted in vital places in India. All wealthy people go abroad for treatment ( ironically where Indian doctors perform surgeries and give treatment).
We as a nation have huge pride of ancestry but lack hope for the future because we have been tutored to put down own potential, mass opinion peddling main stream media sponsored by international propaganda mechanism has injected a sense of inferiority complex among us.
Though the present government with our Honorable PM Modi and his team is trying hard to bring back our forgotten ( fortunately not lost) glory back into our attitude, still the majority of the population have failed to realize what are the contextually relevant priorities for present day glory i.e.
1.ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT as a GLOBAL POWER with all its concomitant benefits and therefore, a more broader COSMOPOLITAN OUTLOOK is needed beyond and besides our well cherished culture, traditions and heritage.
2. Military might as a deterrence.
3. Intellectual and intelligent operations for national and global interest.
With these three we can conquer the world through the strength of economic empowerment; conquer the minds through soft power of our intelligent service, and control thoughts of aggression and violence from any other nation through our military might.
There are thousands of things India and Indians can market; there are millions of ideas that get generated; thousands of activities that can be commercially made profitable.
Our ignorance, inability and unwillingness and different ( wrong ) priorities that are holding us back.
Have we quantified the enormous money that goes into the stereotyped and stupid film industry in the past 50 year?
Imagine just one tenth of it could have created 10 Harvard Universities.
We must not get swayed by knee jerk reactions promoted by mass media sponsored opinions. Instead do some introspection.
The most important App we need is a new AOP Attitude, Outlook and Perspective.
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