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Originally Posted by nandrive I did not quote the year of completion since I believed people know that its not a new monument. I quoted the cost which occurred
40+ years ago and not the adjusted amount for the day. |
Okay so let me get it straight, it was 50 odd years back and the cost blowout was not due to corruption or miss-appropriation. So what exactly is the issue? Quote:
Originally Posted by nandrive I wanted my response to be a-political since I have nothing to do with Australian politics as of now. I wanted to say something about Australian prime minister holidaying in an exotic beach when Australia was burning. But holidaying in exotic beaches sounds too familiar to Indian politics, so kept away from that. |
The media called it a horror show, the public derided him so much so that when he went to a community affected by the bushfires, a woman simply refused to shake hands when he put his hand out. And bear in mind as it is important, its not because it affected the response to bushfires in anyway, it was a moral position that the media and the people took against him for simply going on a leave with his family. He apologised publicly for it too. Again, I fail to understand what are you looking for here? How does it even compare what the politicians are upto in India? Quote:
Originally Posted by nandrive Lets not hide the truth, I have watched politically backed protests(US origin) in the middle of pandemic LIVE, I know what social distancing guidelines were followed. I also know how a Cruise ship was allowed. |
There is nothing to hide. Those were black lives matter protests after the incident in USA and werent related to a political party whatsoever but people coming out to protests even though they were advised to stay inside and follow the COVID regulations. The matter was also heard in court on behalf of the state government as they wanted the court to make it illegal as protests are a fundamental democratic right. As for the cruise ship, there was no ulterior motive to it as you want to imply. It was a simple mischaracterisation of the ship as low risk back in March. You are just cherry picking stuff without any context what so ever and are heavily opinionated. I am even tempted to call it motivated. Quote:
Originally Posted by nandrive I do not have any bad things about Australia, I like it too, may be one day I might call it home. I agree to your point this is mostly down to how people conduct themselves . The way most Australians followed covid restrictions was amazing, but I did not see same back in home. |
Most Australian were paid $1500 a fortnight if they were in any job, they had free COVID tests along with free healthcare. Even quarantine for the first few months for returning Australians was free and in a 5 star hotel no less. What exactly did the Indian government do for its citizens and your response to that is "we should not compare" and some cherry picked incidents without context. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarat...h=2b03aaca6dbe Quote:
Originally Posted by nandrive South Korea's past is not democratic, the present is also dominated by Chaebols. President pardons convicted Chaebols chairman. China less said the better. Look I am not going to say bad things about other countries and similarly I would not say everything is great in India. Every country is unique and has its own issues. A country(democratic) is as good as its people. Politicians, politics,..... are just excuses. |
You are wrong about South Korea. You need to read up on the history of what happened and why it happened. Ignoring that what is your point exactly? Is democracy good or bad? Did they progress because they werent democratic or they did because they are a democracy? What about China then? Or you just take a stand on right or wrong now because you have the full benefit of hindsight? Country building is a process, nothing is perfect from start but from 1948 to today, I would say that the South Koreans have done mighty well for themselves and their people. Yes China has massive issues too but look at what they have achieved in the last 20 odd years. Their GDP is 5 times that of India from being almost equal in 1987. GDP per capita India was richer than China in 1990. In Nov 2019, China is 4.61 times richer than India in nominal method and 2.30 times richer in ppp method. Have you had a look at big Chinese cities? They are better than the best of Europe or USA in term of infrastructure. They are doing better on the environment front too with only one Chinese city on the top 10 most polluted cities list, while a staggering 6 Indian cities make the list including our capital Delhi and just 3 cities from Pakistan. Yes our much maligned neighbours are doing better than us but again if we dont compare we would never know and therefore would never have to do anything. Or compare when it suits us or worst cherry pick events/incidents without proper context.
P.S. This is going off topic and I dont think i would be responding any further.
Last edited by extreme_torque : 15th December 2020 at 17:30.
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