From Nehru To Modi, "A Series Of Betrayals" Argues Princeton Economist On India I Barkha Dutt

[@rbunga1]

PROF SEN ALSO TOLD IN AN INTERVIEW A FEW YEARS AGO - " NO COUNTRY HAS DEVELOPED WITHOUT INVESTING IN EDUCATION." .FIRST PRINCIPLE IS EQUIP YOUR CHILDREN WITH KNOWLEDGE. FRANKLY SPEAKING, WE ARE FLOODED WITH TV CHANNELS. HOW MUCH TIME THEY ARE PROVIDING TO CHILDREN?

[@srip3714]

Is USA System is NOT broken? He will be thrown out of the USA if he belittles it .. If India is broken instead of running away & taking shelter in US ...come here and join in fixing it if you are true Indian

[@ManishKumar-zj5wq]

Mr Ashok Modi is sharing his perspective, not forcing his views upon us. There is a difference. What has made USA a great country is the tolerance and character of its people to live with diversity and dissension - racism, state power notwithstanding. We are still a developing nation and have a lot to learn from others. Some of the issues raised by Mr Ashok Modi are phenomenally straight-forward: he is asking, why is there so much poverty and underdevelopment depsite our tall claims of having had great prime ministers. It's a fair question that we should be asking ourselves more often. Ironically, a professor from Princeton had to show us the mirror and poke us to ask an important question: why are we still backward after more than 75 years of independence. German, Japan, Italy, USA, France and Britain have fought two world wars and are still ahead of us. What is keeping us down? Why is our sad story of "potential never fulfilled" still in vogue. Happy ending is probably only to be seen in our populist cinema.

[@setu2712]

I will read this book. I loved the interview. The real ppl who genuinely care for real solutions always look at the roots of the issue rather than the top floor of the skyscraper! Also, I loved the fact, every time a comparison was done, he just acknowledged it without contesting it! Now that's the real charm! Lots to learn from this one! Cheers & God bless!! Barkha, I have never come across someone like you who is so passionate that you decided to let go of the most precious thing - "sleep", to read the whole book at one go! You are one of a kind, I swear!!

[@srinisbir8781]

There are also people who create problems for every solution that exists.

[@user-hf8uw3vz1m]

Please read the book SNAKES IN THE GANGA by Mr Rajive Malhotraji who has written about snakes like Ashok Mody & please google about Barka dutt who has 200 peoples blood on her hand and then you will understand the above interview - all traitors

[@hkumar7340]

@@srinisbir8781 So true!!

[@ashutoshpandeyz4508]

Such profesors are very dangerous to society, they don't have solutions, they have only problems. They give their misery to others. I love my country. ❤❤🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@newyorkskier]

Excellent analysis by Modi. Even if 1.4 billion people buy toothpaste and bare minimum necessities, India will still be a 5 trillion dollar economy. This doesn't mean that people are well-off. The GDP numbers are big because of the huge population and billions in the hands of a few people.

[@anilnavani3619]

No one acknowledges the role of overpopulation on India’s political economy, environment and standard of living. We simply don’t have the resources to deal with the basic needs of 1.4 billion people. People can make all the arguments they want.

[@morvaridfernandez3105]

So right you are!

[@subratabasu4618]

Indeed? So we have to spend the scant resources subsidising your crony crooks!

[@sushant632]

Sorry buddy but population is not the issue. this is an easy escape to point out. We have enough resources to feed our population but the problem is structural. According to me, these are the major issues. 1. Electoral politics which encourages short-term gains over long-term decisions. 2. Missing constructive opposition roles like shadow cabinet in the UK 3. Lack of modern/practical education. Our curriculum is old and far from what is required. 4. Missing entrepreneur mindset. We Indians prefer job over business although it's changing in recent times. 5. Missing empathy towards fellow citizens. No matter how much we try to be nationalist but we as a society getting more and more indifferent to what is wrong in society.

[@goodsong_views]

India is at replacement, population is fine.

[@vncstudio]

@@sushant632 It looks like nothing much has changed in education for decades. The same exam oriented approach. Definitely education is the number 1 investment but also promotion of entreprenuership. Not vanity projects.

[@brainymandar6]

Whenever I look at individual, I always prefer the ones who give you 100 reasons why it won't work. The more I have lived in Europe, the more I realise Europe is built on pessimism and risk aversion. Indians by and large get carried away with positive thinking and optimism and tend to overlook the ugly side. It doesn't work that way. In this interview, Mody has hit the nail. It's the bigger picture that matters.

[@Ram-bf3ce]

Pessimism is not easy when you are living a poor life as in most of India.

[@soodabhi]

As a budding option seller i so agree with you

[@soodabhi]

@@Ram-bf3ce : growing rich is not easy- west looted - we do not have that option. Learn Singapore / China way

[@everuttejon9886]

....There is no democracy in India.There is too much corruption, Exploitation, and loot in India where girls and women are not safe and being raped all the times. Its called 19th century Indians Western slavery democracy in India..There is no law and order in India now

[@goodsong_views]

@@TQrfoeljU8lN8tVy1Y2ffA 'no one is poor' this is a statement of the entitled. Does the poor not have a right to live? to marry? to have children? is the sole purpose to just make more and more money and not make the best of what you have and what life offers to you? The social contract of the citizens of the nation state is one thing and is majorly debated only in the upper circles. The normal citizens just go about their life not falling under any tax bracket and just staying within the legal framework.

[@tadepalliprasad]

So logical & strong !Its not merely "broken|: but in splinters .He's closer to truth. The Irony ...A 5th passed Mody running the largest democracy and like a |"|Mungehrilal";day dreamer, and on the other side Asoka MOdy a scholar in economics in a renowned university trying to impress upon the ground realities !The anchor unable to appreciate stand the "battering' switches abruptly from 9be point to another !Education as Modi says will not get drivers seat because PM modi himself is at that education level .

[@saurabhrauniyar5590]

His father moved to US (a truly capitalistic country) not to Russia and now he works in Princeton and lecturing why we should live in poverty .

[@abhijazzsharma]

That's a typical hypocrite leftist for you.

[@Maverick-zo4kc]

@@TQrfoeljU8lN8tVy1Y2ffA India remained poor even after independence because of Nehru's disastrous economic policies. Shame on Nehru.

[@FirstLast-fj1yp]

@@TQrfoeljU8lN8tVy1Y2ffA do you go to school and study?

[@jitendersaini7411]

He is absolutely true and brings the real problems in the limelight and we may call him pessimist but this does not take away the problems this country and it’s citizens are facing.

[@everuttejon9886]

....There is no democracy in India.There is too much corruption, Exploitation, and loot in India where girls and women are not safe and being raped all the times. Its called 19th century Indians Western slavery democracy in India..There is no law and order in India now

[@SaurabhSingh-pp6ys]

India moving to third biggest economy beyond 2030. We should celebrate that but at the same time we can not ignore the fact that where average Indian is moving in terms of Dollar per capita income. Where he is ranked now, where he was ranked 15 years back and where he is headed 20 years from now.

[@OnlyTheTruth007]

The guy seems to have collected a set of cribs ( not that the cribs are not genuine ) and then has a total one sided opinion that these must have been given attention instead of doing anything else. Barkha does a good job of asking him the right questions but the best he can answer is “I agree with what you are saying” but see there are these 10 problems. It’s a little one sided that he calls it betrayal . Anyway , economic development has to happen in every field - but not doing anything till everyone is educated and has protein rich diets is a far fetched utopian view.

[@FirstLast-fj1yp]

he should also study school system in US and find out how the US students fair against the other EU countries.

[@dhallvinod]

Mody Saheb takes a very narrow view of the circumstances surrounding in each of the epoch, possibly for a sensational title of the book. However : his basic point about education is the core: Nehru to Modi, all have paid NO heed to the constitutional directive on "free education" with far reaching (adverse) consequences for us : the People.

[@francisp9509]

It is the high morals of Mr. Ashok which helps him to get the correct Pic about India.

[@krushnadeepsonu3552]

He has Morality since he has been living in a High moral society.

[@ravinayar4314]

But staying abroad..criticizing India is easy.. Changing from within is another thing Also The same picture applies to every western country.. And they all meddle with india..negatively

[@hkumar7340]

This is the thought that was going through my mind during this entire interview!

[@madhurs623]

If we are happy about Indians achieving in foreign countries, we should be receptive to their criticisms as well. We have become so offensive to criticisms that no such are coming out to public from resident Indians. Because of our tolerance levels, it truly has become easier for Indians outside India to criticise. Such a sad story. I wonder where the freedom of speech has gone. Our journalism has become a puppet show.

[@vikramchandran4378]

He lost me when he said PM Nehru was not a socialist. Everyone knows Nehru was a Fabian socialist right from his college days. How can anyone take him seriously?

[@samreads]

😂 We have a new (but old in age) Whataboutry champion

[@sanjivb53]

A high quality discussion. My time was well spent watching this.

[@adityamookerjee.]

I have just seen a small part of the interview, and I want to ask a question. How does the Professor living in the United States know the numbers of employment and unemployment in India? I would assume that the Indian Govt would know better, but how much more or less does it know than the Professor? What does he know about the economic situation of Barkha or me? Does he know that I exist, and what does he know about my existence? What does he get by thinking and talking about the things that he does? How does he assume what he does about people he doesn't know are around? NASA assumes it knows a lot about the universe, by looking at things through a telescope. Can they admit that things may look different later in time, or in different circumstances?

[@hkumar7340]

Good questions indeed... I would sum up all these questions in one: "Mr. Ashoka Mody, what percentage of the 'lived reality' of the average Indian do you really know?" This man does not know 1/100,000 of what India is, yet he pontificates authoritatively based on his Princeton pedigree!

[@kay--2]

Today's India: Employment: We are running short of engineers, skilled workers and even unskilled ones! Living Standard: Even domestic maids now have pucca house with toilet, electricity, gas, fans, coloured flat screen TV, mobile and some have refrigerator too. Education: It is now a must even for poorest! What we need is high quality education and Walk in Job Centres for imparting on job skill to youth!

[@santoshshah2870]

Bangladesh is progressing seems to be his point whereas the reality is that Bangladesh begged the IMF for a few billion dollars.

[@ushalakshmanan]

He says nothing about the lives reality of Hindus in Bangla Desh ! They are getting killed

[@madhurs623]

Bangladesh is actually progressing if you look at their per capita GDP and social indicators like women work force.

[@srinisbir8781]

@26:15 Most Americans also cannot afford to stay unemployed. What does it mean to say that most Indians cannot afford to stay unemployed.?

[@milindapanha]

“Freeze all policy making!” That sent a shiver down my spine. I am glad he is not in charge.

[@f1h1i1]

Do ya know who's in charge? The lunatics!

[@nirmalakrishna8046]

O god I pity students of Princeton !

[@sureshbajaj6031]

Deeper and cruel truth …..

[@txlish]

OMG, I have been top of my lungs for last 9 years - It is the Job, Education, City, Air, Health, Water , Judiciary - dreaded Lived reality in '2023 (;;;;----

[@kingfisher2797]

Barkha Dutt is the greatest tragedy for India.

[@rameshsamineni4805]

He is spot on with the issues which are haunting India and not many are looking at them like this guy.

[@muneebkhan7465]

The best part of Economist Ashok Mody ji is that he is incredibly lucid and articulate enough to even make a High school student understand the topic in this video.👌

[@gitabelliappa1164]

Thank you Barkha for this rhought provoking interview of brilliant Economist Mr Ashoka Mody. He vividly analysis the erosion of social norms and public accountability in the last seven decades. Our youth must watch this interview and read his book. Es

[@rajarchanagarre7306]

From the time this interview was put on internet to now, Indian economy went up by almost a 1 Trillion dollars.

[@muraleedharanpaloran1712]

Mr.Mody is spot on when he says we have to raise the quality of our school education. Well, he was one among the privileged few who received quality education in India. What did he do to spread it to his country men? As long as those who get a chance to get educated and are skilled, leave our shores to serve a foreign nation during their productive life time, we have no chance to progress. What Indians lacks is nationalism. Put your self interest aside and work for nations progress. We need more people like APJ, Varghese Kurian, Bharka Dutt, Mahua Moita, Palanivel Thiagarajan...list can go on. We should celebrate them. Instead we celebrate people who enrich foreign countries, recently one was given a Padma award. I don't want name them.

[@drbravinderreddy]

Incredibly insightful interactions and very informative too!

[@alfa_romeo0701]

I was expecting a seminal discussion. The questions he raises are bang on but from a man of his background I expected some real policy directions. But such discussions do bring the focus back to root causes.

[@everuttejon9886]

....There is no democracy in India.There is too much corruption, Exploitation, and loot in India where girls and women are not safe and being raped all the times. Its called 19th century Indians Western slavery democracy in India..There is no law and order in India now

[@rajbalasingh1014]

U r talking the real truth 👍 We have to think the way out.

[@txlish]

I commented on Karan Thapar interview w/Author that I comcur with author assesment of Nehruji and Gujju Model and now right from the get Go, author is hitting my points - so-called jingles of 5 trillion (Where did it go) and who all it go?

[@rameshg2717]

Next 20 years is crucial for this country. But unfortunately there are Himalayan challenges. Technical jobs are being threatened by automation ane AI. Manufacturing jobs are threatened by cheap Chinese imports. We neither are advanced in new technology, nor do we have world class institutions. But, steered in the right direction we can become the second largest world market.

[@ratnakamal1]

The story of Bharat is that of the glass half full. The author focuses on the empty part and paints a grim picture of the whole.

[@debashisganguly1245]

First time (not sure if many such exist) I am seeing an IITian who parrots (may be an example of rote learning in his hay days) views without offering even slightest reasoning about ways to transform his utopian lofty ideas into reality. Senility, I guess.

[@ushalakshmanan]

He is just stupid Cashing in on his stupid views about India

[@maheshsakalle1927]

In 1981 the population of India was just 68 crore In 2022 the population has risen to 135 crore (approx) This means that the population has grown to about 67 crore In just 40 years It means that we have added 2 USA to our population since 1981 Whatever economic growth India attains gets nullified by rapid growth of population The uncotrolled growth of population results In all kinds of mismanagement India is suffering from this uncotrolled growth of (tissues)population and the intellectuals of India are ignoring this cancer and are suggesting cure for Cough & Cold ,Piles ,indigestion This ignorance of cancer and suggesting the cure for simple dissease is a serious betrayal form intellectuals

[@sweetguy0]

Though I do not necessarily agree with all the point, this is a good thought-provoking discussion. Lot of notes for the politicians to think and frame policies.

[@epsilonzeromusic]

Would you share which points you disagreed on? I ask since i mostly agreed with what he said so I'd like to hear a differing opinion

[@kritant-5090]

@@epsilonzeromusic I am also searching for book reviews (positive or negative) or any other view. Also, Media channels are inviting him only for interviews not debates with economists. :(

[@arnabsengupta7985]

If the quality of job is bad as this person says, and if the number of jobs is lower than 2012, then it is a very bad situation.

[@micheal6803]

The same question can be asked about America as well??

[@abhikghosh6110]

Why keep comparing with America? It's already in crisis.

[@dipanwitadas]

U live in America or India?

[@abhikghosh6110]

@@dipanwitadas how does it matter? Whom are you asking the question to?

[@prashantchachadi6896]

@@dipanwitadas where u live?? disgusting Waste Bengal???

[@abhikghosh6110]

@ANDH NAMAZI 72 HURRO WALA🤣😂 because it's a free world u bot

[@rc2k22]

Good Microphones, but should control the Bass, I think when listening to conversations, the Bass in the ear distracts. A little more treble can help. Thanks.

[@surendrabarsode8959]

Ashok is the ideal economist Rahul can enlist, rather than RRR!!! He is a genuine poor man's economist, if at all there is any such categorisation!! In a sense, he sounds like Rahul...he is simply junking anything and everything Modi did!!! But he is a brilliant economist and not a pappu. Let's listen to him carefully n address issues he is raising.

[@FirstLast-fj1yp]

he wants all the others to stay poor and him to be rich. He should make his book free.

[@swaditi1]

What is your solution. The Princeton guy capitalist says let's not benchmark US wtf Europe is in disarray without US help. He seems to think Bangladesh is a mirror for everyone not US. !

[@santoshshah2870]

This man is totally pessimistic and has a very sorry way of looking India. The point should be whether we are growing or not and the policies are correct or not. Democracy is not working for India as the reforms are not laid on the ground because of cheap politics.

[@dineshmistry375]

Interesting. We have an economist who believes in an utopian democracy. Jobs, water, air, infrastructure etc etc. I guess any societal structure, be it communism, socialism, capitalism in it's theoretical form is ideal. Unfortunately you have to include the human psyche and greed into the equation and then all the systems come crumbling down. This economist worked at the IMF if I heard correctly. How many countries did the IMF uplift from poverty, in spite of placing all sorts of provisions for the use of the loans. He is an economist, so i didn't expect more from him. Jai Hind

[@farfromtheearth]

He knows India.

[@gforceroger2350]

Your topics and interviews are good but I have noticed the problem is always poor sound quality of the recording. Not clear

[@pawankumarjha100]

It shows clearly he is very pessimist. He thinks India is or should be like USA for living standard. India is developing country, so it will take time for India to match with USA or other developed countries as far as Human index is concerned.

[@Vikas-rx3gv]

IIT creates engineers for united states .... while a good secondry school creates a good citizen for indian democracy ... we ca manage 1000 secondary schools from budget given to an IIT .... so which option is better for us ...

[@rkg-7877]

Nice interview Barkha. A person who starts his initial remarks by saying ‘ his father made the statement that he is Indian by heart’, I can guess where he is coming from. Reminds me of ‘ Snakes in the Ganga’ book by Rajiv Malhotra. Yes India has issues in terms of Education, poverty, clean air, rivers, etc etc but fortunately India has already taken off and will be a force to reckon with during the next decade. - GST keeps on growing - infrastructure expansion reducing lead times of transportation time and working capital - UPI payment where a pan wala, chai wala, grocery guy spends no time in giving change and uses QR code. Spends more time growing his business - more than half of population have access to internet. - Almost all Indians have Adhar Card - Most rural population have bank accounts. God bless people like Ashoka Mody. Incidentally I live 20 miles from Princeton in South Jersey and through and through an Indian by heart. 😢

[@srikanthbiduru]

I reject his arguments. Pessimism has never done anything good to anyone.

[@nirmalakrishna8046]

Why there r floods & forest fires in America!

[@aanniirr100]

'lived reality' vs 'cinematic' economic growth forecast, where does it lead us to in 2030

[@nirmalakrishna8046]

How many Americans r good in maths!

[@robin_kumar]

Wish you had allowed the aggressive rational economist to finish his sentence comparing Raj Kapoor and Satya. But it was a fantastic interview on such a important topic: Who are the beneficiaries of the GDP?

[@mouseeqhee]

That's the crux of the problem.... who are the beneficiaries of this 3rd largest GDP... Unless and until we invest in Human Resource, things would not improve

[@robin_kumar]

@@mouseeqhee absolutely correct. Thanks for elaborate it.

[@yulplateau]

1980 called, this book belongs on the shelves there!

[@hkumar7340]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnfernandes4949]

Well educated goOd thoughts well spoken

[@DesiGodOfWar]

Way below ordinary content by that gentleman. Substandard arguments.

[@agnescraig2912]

The British helped Indians by providing them employment in Sri Lanka, Fiji, Malaysia to name a few. There is poverty in India even today.nd people emigrate at any cost like the family from Gujarat who froze to death in Canada trying to get to the US

[@mariafrancisalexander864]

Interestingly the book is seem to must readable for young students who are the back bone for shaping indian economy as well as our democracy

[@trideep220280]

Awesome pontificating from someone who has either sanctioned some of the projects that have caused the "mess" he is writing.

[@ritasharma1533]

India would have been democracy if 1990 Ajmer rape case victims have got justice

[@malamohla]

Great, pls come to India prof and work to improve the system. Taking US citizenship and talking negative is not promising

[@RashidKhan-bk9hm]

Supreme Court did NOT validate the policy of demonetisation. The judgement 4 to 1 was that the government had the right to demonetise and wasn't done illegally and it was not making any judgement on the result of the drastic implementation without consultation. The decision was undemocratic and did not achieve the objectives stated for he implementation.

[@mouseeqhee]

Exactly

[@subratabasu4618]

RIGHT!

[@ganapatigbhagwat3786]

I wonder when our leaders realise it...

[@Jerry-yb1bc]

Can't hear the audio well.

[@ravireddi1052]

She is anti Modi , She is not popular among many in India. .Our support is for Our PM Modi who is going to be back in 2024 ! So ,who cares about you Barka????

[@toocooltocare1444]

I appreciate the points made by him. But I want to know about certain reforms that are being bought by the Modi government, including beti Bachao beti padhao and Swachh Bharat and rural electrification and Ayushman Bharat. Because I think the social schemes have improved the status of women and access to basic health and education. Plus I would like to know his opinion on PLII, labour reforms and Gati Shakti. Also about NEP. I appreciate points made by him but would love to hear his take on these issues

[@sudhakarrao4907]

Wish Prof. Ashok Modi had used the word like say indulged in case of Nehru instead of betrayal of India, which amply fits for the government of the BJP under Modi. It is all about reality of intent & anticipation of feasibility in the planning each of these faced. Instead of blaming Nehru for not arm twisting entire India to conform to his vision of Indian development in the manner of Modi or nations like Japan or China, he avoided more violence over what had already occurred at partition & thereby bought time of relative peace, leaving issues like public health or primary & secondary education to the states rather than through central government edicts, as Modi tried & failed promptly. Patchy though the response was to Nehru’s indulgent approach some states like Punjab, Haryana & Andhra Pradesh excelled themselves in agriculture & plantation product achievements, while other states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka boosted quality of life for their citizens through early population explosion control measures on their own. Industrialization & manufacture development impressively showed up in states like Maharashtra, Karnataka & Gujarat.

[@ronkappa]

Guest audio is inaudible

[@indermohansinghmalhotra3730]

Fabulous interview & program 👌, Barkha! It is your own grasp, training & education that benchmark your output. 🙏

[@soundar4270]

Since 2014, Bangaladesh is growing better than India. Since 2014, Adani & Ambani are growing exponentially. Bangaladesh has no resource. They are importing Cotton from India. North Indian voters should remove this Corporate driven BJP in 2024. India needs inclusive growth. Not making some rich tycoons.

[@satishhh9430]

Who is crsp?/economist? Indian citizens elect the party govt of their choice. India has the highest democracy in the world look at each state kerala voted back communists, TN DMK, Andhra has YSR, TRS, Orissa has BJD, chattisgarh HM have congress AAP in Delhi, Punjab every state votes their choice of party and govt. Who is crap economist to brand it as factures democracy? We don't need his opinion

[@RationalThinker21]

Spot on..."Lived Reality of People" is what really matters....

[@yulplateau]

the guy has a narrow view. Education and IIT is not the only key to progress. This is a very middle class view of things.

[@historian2]

In India, during his time as a student, IIT was the best education you could get. Nowadays there are too many IITs and I doubt all of them have the consistently high standards of the original 5 IITs.

[@dockalra]

Wise man

[@somnathde8680]

Good one.👍

[@pramodkrishnamurthy3707]

Superb Barkhaji even better than Karan Thapar of the same guest

[@camelkarma]

Too low volume

[@prasanna3378]

I think Nehru did the best he could, and for the most part he did the right things. And till today, by social measures and statistics, *Nehru was by far the Best PM India ever had, and he truly was the founding father of the "State of Indian Democracy." The greatest achievement of Nehru was a harmonious Democracy.*

[@PseudoProphet]

The selection of Nehru as a prime minister was itself completely undemocratic. 😂😂

[@prasanna3378]

@@PseudoProphet Mahatma Gandhi, "Netaji's" undisputed "Father of The Nation" gave us the best man to lead us to peace and progress. And you know what your mobocracy was like ? It's the lies, Partition, bloody massacres by RSS, Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League. Well, how on the earth will Fascists ever know the difference of "Mobocracy" and "Democracy" ! First you'd need a sense of Democracy and Humanism at all !

[@PseudoProphet]

@@prasanna3378 hahahaha, use coherent thoughts 😂😂😂 Do you even know what democracy is? Also Patel was 10 times the person that Nehru ever could be, he was nothing but a British stooge. 🙄🙄

[@dineshdikshit8566]

Nothing wrong in listing issues facing our country. Education and health are two sectors which need immediate attention. But when you are faced with plethora of problems it is difficult to prioritise with varying shades of political classes. Such lectures given by so-called NRIs are only critical never suggestive. We will stumble, fall, and rise again.

[@arnabsengupta7985]

His hypothetical solution at the end is funny. Stop all policy making other than education. Having said that - education needs a overhaul in India. Kerala as a model ?? Communist ??

[@user-hf8uw3vz1m]

Ashok mody - you better write a book on what's happening in America than India. When you say that your father said that you are an Indian by heart which means you dont consider yourself as an Indian. So just to demean whatever the developments happening in India you are writing a book with all irrelevant statistics - is it carrying forward Harvard agenda ????????? In India there is a system called reservation even to get promotions in Government Jobs. No one can touch them since they are from reserved category and they are the supreme lords in this country All intelligent productive sincere hardworking people work in Private sectors since at private sectors your results are looked for your growth. So majorly private sectors are the main people because of whom country's growth is happening where as all government jobs are simply a liability on to the tax paying people of India. In Government whether you work or dont work or even dont go to the office you will get salary. So stop whining about creating government jobs which are only for the reserved category who are nothing but just liabilities have no sincerity towards their job.

[@Nifty1976]

For most of us Jina yahan and marna yahan. So what to do? But why don't these genius people start some NGO to clean up the rivers or. Start a chain of schools across the nation? Government schools at least provide free luch, books and education upto secondary level for girl child

[@devsen05]

In order to sell this interview, the usage of a foreign university "Princeton" was very much required. New age, different platform..but same tactics, same old mindset, similar intentions. When is her kind going to wake up!!

[@AshokKumar-hs4tn]

Ashok mModi makes very valid points, Barkha asks right Qs, makes good points, good to see her, must read the book

[@swaditi1]

Subsidizing semiconductor it's a worldwide phenomenon NY State Texas Arizona all have used the same carrot

[@vandanasood9632]

Any effort to bring a change in our society is resisted, often with violence. Reasons are political. Look at the opposition to the farm laws. It will take long time. Another problem is job reservation for the government teachers. How do you change overnight.

[@nj510]

Agree

[@vandanasood9632]

It appears that the gentleman does not know th Indian human resource. He should talk about the employability of Indian population and not of employment alone. Even today a large segment of our population does not believe in sending their children to school. One large segment of our society sends their male children to a madrasa and don't educate their girls for more than about 5 or 6 years. Thousands of madrasas produce hundreds of thousands unemployable graduates every year and they run at government cost. He should go to an adivasi village in Jharkhand and ask people why don't they clothe their toddlers despite having money to do so. And then there is the problem of large families.

[@kaustubh14jr]

Useless discussion by people who live abroad and have lost touch with India. He is giving film as reference data point. Please try to publish a peer reviewed paper with those data points than writing this book.

[@Jeet-2023]

He is a princeton professor of emerging economies.

[@kaustubh14jr]

@@Jeet-2023 I know that's why I am even more annoyed. Just because he is from Princeton he will not get a free pass on data points. He is saying we should stop all policy making? Garbage colleges? He is also giving very weak arguments. Anti Microbial resistance is because of Affluents dumped in a river? He should get his head tested. He is also not giving data but some personal anecdotes. Try to publish a paper like this no one would even bother to read them.

[@amitagarwal8043]

Omg! This man sees only negative .

[@Maverick-zo4kc]

2 anti-nationals talking to each other. Shame on them.

[@mukeshsinghmaher2378]

brown shaheb welcome

[@murthy5506]

He spoke like s real economist. Full of grand statements with little substance

[@satishhh9430]

Regarding economy, even IMF mentioned India is the only bright spot in the current gloomy outlook across the world after 2 yrs of covid and Ukraine war. Who is this crap to talk about quality of jobs India? What is the quality of jobs in US? Can this crap explain?

[@nirmalakrishna8046]

This fellow doesn’t understand india at all ! He is better off staying in America! Most confused nri!

[@AG_MAG]

Please let us know how to fix the flaws and the broken fissures. All erudite and smart people who settled in USA donot have solutions which can work in a context like India. The local entrepreneurs and homegrown companies, who provide jobs are better than these armchair economists.

[@txlish]

Mr Mody , like to reiterate in Nehruji era, you grew up, Primary schooling was Not as bad as it is , You being the example , I and you both can recite our counting of numbers while sleeping upto 10, 11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19....after 40-50 years -:)

[@ngupta0101]

poor guy is full of negativity.. what to do, we Indians are our biggest foe when the world acknowledges the progress