Poor India in Japan TV

rkbharat · 27th August 2008, 19:14

I just finished watching a documentary in a Japanese channel about poverty in India in some part of Bihar. They almost prepared a interesting telecast out of poverty in India.

Very sad that poverty is still a matter of interest and documentary for countries who got there freedom almost the same time when we got it. I really do not want to do the comparison.

But I did not liked the program, because were like trying to put a sad picture.

And that just reminded me the scene from Muna Bhai MBBS, when Circuit asked a chinnes/japanese to show Poor India Bhooka India.

dadu · 27th August 2008, 19:19

Can we blame them or Us ??

s0uljah · 27th August 2008, 19:26

How much did your TV cost?

aerohit · 27th August 2008, 19:29

In india people dont work with passion.

They just work for money. They dont care about the company. They care about their salary and their promotion.

Hence the results.....

jkdas · 27th August 2008, 19:34

They just showed the part most of us dont see daily. If I remember right 55% of Mumbai is considered slum.

rkbharat · 27th August 2008, 19:37

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Originally Posted by dadu

Can we blame them or Us ??

Dadu Saab, if you ask me who to blame, I can count 20 different stakeholders, I am a manager by profession

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Its not a question of who to blame, we have different problems and different situations and we have good and bad both. They might just have good.

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Originally Posted by s0uljah

How much did your TV cost?

Free ... Part of deal in appartment

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Originally Posted by aerohit

In india people dont work with passion.

They just work for money. They dont care about the company. They care about their salary and their promotion.

Hence the results.....

about passion, yes I agree,.

But about Salary and Promotion, believe me, the truth is, in every country, every person work for these two. And those who work for passion, do not work for companies, they run there own companies.

sanjayatarizona · 27th August 2008, 19:45

The unfortunate facts are that :
(1)we cannot gloss over these realities.
(2) The goddamn foreign media has a propensity for potraying these disturbing realities to the armchair viewer ,for entertainment purposes- Africa and South Asia being favourite hunting grounds

greenhorn · 27th August 2008, 20:08

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Originally Posted by rkbharat

Very sad that poverty is still a matter of interest and documentary for countries who got there freedom almost the same time when we got it.

I dont get your arguement. How does the fact that they got freedom at about the same time as us prevent them from being interested in poverty?

I dont Find attention to poverty Sad at all. Instead of Reporting whether the Big B felt cold today, Media should at least give some mention to it. To ignore it and gloss over the better aspects , to ourselves at that , is sheer denial

vivekiny2k · 27th August 2008, 20:15

@rkbharat, I guess what you are trying to say is india is progressing and we have MNCs and great cars and everything else. but if that cannot change the fate of those people in bihar, that's our failure.

what interests anybody is none of our business. they have never seen poor people probably and they are excited about it. increasing their TRPs you see.

Bass&Trouble · 27th August 2008, 20:17

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Originally Posted by s0uljah

How much did your TV cost?

Shut up you poor Indian, just drink your glass of hand-pumped water and scurry off happily.

Sudipto-S-Team · 27th August 2008, 20:24

What's wrong with the programme? Did they show anything that was not true? When will we stop being hypocrites and stop to pretend to be what we are not? Let's accept that we are a very impoverished nation; that's probably the first step towards achieving freedom from poverty and its related social ills.

snaronikar · 27th August 2008, 20:25

We have to accep the reality of today. But making mockery of this is not OK. We need to look back ourselves and see where are we today and where they are and what made them to reach there. Are our politicians ready to do this? I hope not. If people get educated, then the fear of losing the votes will haunt them. Hence they do not want the people leaving in BPL to get educated and know the real world. Hence we will continue to leave like this forever...

Path_Finder · 27th August 2008, 20:28

I am reminded of a joke where the Japan PM once visited Bihar and asked Lalu to lease out a portion on Bihar; he would then turn that portion developed and modern as Japan in 2 years time – Lalu retorted by asking the visiting PM to give a portion of Japan to him and he would turn it Bihar like in 2 days flat!
Unfortunately this is real too…

Sudipto-S-Team · 27th August 2008, 20:34

There is another famous one liner which is perhaps relevant here - what Bihar is to India, India is to the world. Please stop laughing at Bihar and look at ourselves as a nation as a whole.

vivekiny2k · 27th August 2008, 20:52

in pennsylvania i remember a case where somebody was jailed for 3 years for taking 5000 $ in bribes.

in india politicians pockets millions and still walk with their heads up high, nobody raises any eyebrows.

who said we are a poor nation?

27th August 2008, 19:14	#1
rkbharat Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gurgaon/New Delhi Posts: 1,601 Thanked: 724 Times View My Garage	Poor India in Japan TV I just finished watching a documentary in a Japanese channel about poverty in India in some part of Bihar. They almost prepared a interesting telecast out of poverty in India. Very sad that poverty is still a matter of interest and documentary for countries who got there freedom almost the same time when we got it. I really do not want to do the comparison. But I did not liked the program, because were like trying to put a sad picture. And that just reminded me the scene from Muna Bhai MBBS, when Circuit asked a chinnes/japanese to show Poor India Bhooka India. Last edited by rkbharat : 27th August 2008 at 19:16.
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dadu Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2007 Location: Bangalore Posts: 3,803 Thanked: 462 Times View My Garage	Can we blame them or Us ??
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s0uljah Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: BLR Posts: 2,222 Thanked: 26 Times View My Garage	How much did your TV cost?
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aerohit BHPian Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: India Posts: 978 Thanked: 981 Times	In india people dont work with passion. They just work for money. They dont care about the company. They care about their salary and their promotion. Hence the results.....
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jkdas Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Thiruvananthapu Posts: 9,687 Thanked: 1,492 Times View My Garage	They just showed the part most of us dont see daily. If I remember right 55% of Mumbai is considered slum.
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sanjayatarizona BHPian Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: "God's own Shaap" Posts: 354 Thanked: 10 Times	The unfortunate facts are that : (1)we cannot gloss over these realities. (2) The goddamn foreign media has a propensity for potraying these disturbing realities to the armchair viewer ,for entertainment purposes- Africa and South Asia being favourite hunting grounds
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vivekiny2k Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: cincinnati, jabalpur,chennai Posts: 1,264 Thanked: 209 Times View My Garage	@rkbharat, I guess what you are trying to say is india is progressing and we have MNCs and great cars and everything else. but if that cannot change the fate of those people in bihar, that's our failure. what interests anybody is none of our business. they have never seen poor people probably and they are excited about it. increasing their TRPs you see.
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27th August 2008, 20:24	#11
Sudipto-S-Team Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Kolkata Posts: 1,320 Thanked: 290 Times View My Garage	What's wrong with the programme? Did they show anything that was not true? When will we stop being hypocrites and stop to pretend to be what we are not? Let's accept that we are a very impoverished nation; that's probably the first step towards achieving freedom from poverty and its related social ills.
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27th August 2008, 20:25	#12
snaronikar Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bengaluru Posts: 2,845 Thanked: 29 Times View My Garage	We have to accep the reality of today. But making mockery of this is not OK. We need to look back ourselves and see where are we today and where they are and what made them to reach there. Are our politicians ready to do this? I hope not. If people get educated, then the fear of losing the votes will haunt them. Hence they do not want the people leaving in BPL to get educated and know the real world. Hence we will continue to leave like this forever...
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27th August 2008, 20:28	#13
Path_Finder BHPian Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bangalore Posts: 622 Thanked: 6 Times View My Garage	I am reminded of a joke where the Japan PM once visited Bihar and asked Lalu to lease out a portion on Bihar; he would then turn that portion developed and modern as Japan in 2 years time – Lalu retorted by asking the visiting PM to give a portion of Japan to him and he would turn it Bihar like in 2 days flat! Unfortunately this is real too…
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27th August 2008, 20:34	#14
Sudipto-S-Team Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Kolkata Posts: 1,320 Thanked: 290 Times View My Garage	There is another famous one liner which is perhaps relevant here - what Bihar is to India, India is to the world. Please stop laughing at Bihar and look at ourselves as a nation as a whole.
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27th August 2008, 20:52	#15
vivekiny2k Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: cincinnati, jabalpur,chennai Posts: 1,264 Thanked: 209 Times View My Garage	in pennsylvania i remember a case where somebody was jailed for 3 years for taking 5000 $ in bribes. in india politicians pockets millions and still walk with their heads up high, nobody raises any eyebrows. who said we are a poor nation?
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