[Assam] Business Week : Indian economy: Hero to Zero?

[umesh sharma]

http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/jul/07pm.htm
Indian Prime Minister blames rich countries - blame others but suffer yourself??

My father says that if you meet with an accident and get hurt , then it does not matter who was at fault in driving , what matters is that you got hurt so you were at fault. Why didn't you take precautions? Why didn't you look both ways and every which way, why didn't you drive slower etc etc. 

My FAULT ONCE:
Thanks to his advice I avoided hitting anyone and getting hit by anyone (except once when in Bhopal [ I had recently met a girl at Bhopal, and was day dreaming on an empty road on a Sunday while driving my Yamaha RXG 135 - then India's fastest pickup bike,] and a guy talking to a woman sitting behind him twisted his scooter's handle and just came into the opposite lane and hit me. He was knocked out. I limped some distance to the bike mechanic's place. Limped for a month. The bike's leg guards saved my leg - the footrest and the brake's section was a mangled mass). That was my fault. 

Why was I driving so slow? Had I been faster I could have accelerated and and avoided the scooter, like I once did in Delhi empty ridge road , when a car from the opposite lane, bumped across the divider and came charging like a tank at me. I accelerated my then Black Enfield Bullet bike, and escaped .


 Why was I day dreaming? It is immaterial that that guy was totally at fault (all passersby sympathesized with me). 

It seems Indian PM, despite his excellent  economy-driver skills is  day-dreaming about some forbidden romance.  Or perhaps  like the  time when I was trying to get a teaching job in the US (while in India Jan 5, 2003) mind was filled with too many angles and issues and just bumped on the cold severe winter road (must be below freezing - with wind chill) at midnight. Maybe he has too many things on his mind - like the nuclear deal - which is no use for the Indian economy, is it?

Umesh

PS: Was it a coincidence that the Bhopal girl started limping a week after I did, her Kinetic Honda scooter skidded while she tried to avoid a dog on the road. Who was to blame? :-)

--- On Sun, 6/7/08, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Subject: Business Week : Indian economy: Hero to Zero?
To: assam at assamnet.org
Date: Sunday, 6 July, 2008, 3:07 PM

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb2008071_743900.htm?campaign_id=mag_Jul3&link_position=link18

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