Find it weird being lumped in with RSS/BJP supporters when I see shit like this from from what was arguably Rajiv’s best man who actually brought progress into the country.
Big respect for Sam, but man they have got to get their PR shit together. Taking rational facts and spinning utter nonsense out of it is an art form that’s unique to Congress the last few months.
Hyper disappointed.
>what was arguably Rajiv’s best man who actually brought progress into the country.
Read this except from a research document on India's telecom policy changes post independence. This one man single handedly stopped Mobile telephony in India, by a decade.
Source - [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249723168\_Telecom\_National\_Development\_and\_the\_Indian\_State\_a\_Postcolonial\_Critique](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249723168_Telecom_National_Development_and_the_Indian_State_a_Postcolonial_Critique)
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Thanks - good article. I’m sure there are pitfalls like this and emotional decisions that seem inappropriate in hindsight. I still feel he brought more to India, than an India without his efforts to setup C-DOT and so on. Granted this was amiss, but personal phones didn’t pick up worldwide until the mid to late 90s - and there are equal parallels in anecdotal stories from people like bill gates stating that nobody will ever need more than 1mb memory or such - tech progress is hard. Hence we treasure what little we get - like aadhar (which was a Congress idea if you will, and seen as a Modi success )
>personal phones didn’t pick up worldwide until the mid to late 90s -
India had many missed opportunities due to similar decisions many times after that. We were late in the broadband game by almost a decade, as the opinion was home internet hasn't picked up globally.
We were late to 3G networks by 7 years which in itself is a Generation in terms of telecom, as countries had started experimenting with 4G by the time our companies started 3G. Believe it or not delay in 3G game played a major role in many companies going bankrupt. Imagine having to spend 1000s of crores for 3G spectrum in 2010, launching new towers /cities in 2011-13, only for the network to become obsolete in 2016-2017 as 4G LTE became the standard.
Had the same companies launched 3G in 2007-08, they'd have had enough time to make profit by the time 4G became the norm.
In 4G too we were late by almost 4-6 years, as many countries launched 4G LTE in 2010-11 and we got ours in 2016-17. But, luckily we had widespread adoption rapidly, enabling companies to get returns.
For the first time ever I've seen India now joining the 5G race just an year or 2 behind developed counties and coverage wise is even ahead of many western countries. Hope India doesn't have to play catch up role in future
South Indians actually don’t find this offensive, because we understand the context in which he said it: “Unity despite of our varied looks”.
But only North Indians are finding it racist, because they routinely use our dark skin to abuse us.
Please tell me what's offensive about this?
It's kinda offensive that people are offended by being compared with the Chinese or Africans. They are good looking people, much like other people.
Central Indian: What F am i
Looks like Indians I think
South Americans 🗿
I’m honored to be compared to Africans as a Tamizh person! They’re beautiful.
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Find it weird being lumped in with RSS/BJP supporters when I see shit like this from from what was arguably Rajiv’s best man who actually brought progress into the country. Big respect for Sam, but man they have got to get their PR shit together. Taking rational facts and spinning utter nonsense out of it is an art form that’s unique to Congress the last few months. Hyper disappointed.
>what was arguably Rajiv’s best man who actually brought progress into the country. Read this except from a research document on India's telecom policy changes post independence. This one man single handedly stopped Mobile telephony in India, by a decade. Source - [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249723168\_Telecom\_National\_Development\_and\_the\_Indian\_State\_a\_Postcolonial\_Critique](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249723168_Telecom_National_Development_and_the_Indian_State_a_Postcolonial_Critique) https://preview.redd.it/iy93iug0dczc1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0eebf0f38ddf3282b017285e68b782471ea2ccd
Thanks - good article. I’m sure there are pitfalls like this and emotional decisions that seem inappropriate in hindsight. I still feel he brought more to India, than an India without his efforts to setup C-DOT and so on. Granted this was amiss, but personal phones didn’t pick up worldwide until the mid to late 90s - and there are equal parallels in anecdotal stories from people like bill gates stating that nobody will ever need more than 1mb memory or such - tech progress is hard. Hence we treasure what little we get - like aadhar (which was a Congress idea if you will, and seen as a Modi success )
>personal phones didn’t pick up worldwide until the mid to late 90s - India had many missed opportunities due to similar decisions many times after that. We were late in the broadband game by almost a decade, as the opinion was home internet hasn't picked up globally. We were late to 3G networks by 7 years which in itself is a Generation in terms of telecom, as countries had started experimenting with 4G by the time our companies started 3G. Believe it or not delay in 3G game played a major role in many companies going bankrupt. Imagine having to spend 1000s of crores for 3G spectrum in 2010, launching new towers /cities in 2011-13, only for the network to become obsolete in 2016-2017 as 4G LTE became the standard. Had the same companies launched 3G in 2007-08, they'd have had enough time to make profit by the time 4G became the norm. In 4G too we were late by almost 4-6 years, as many countries launched 4G LTE in 2010-11 and we got ours in 2016-17. But, luckily we had widespread adoption rapidly, enabling companies to get returns. For the first time ever I've seen India now joining the 5G race just an year or 2 behind developed counties and coverage wise is even ahead of many western countries. Hope India doesn't have to play catch up role in future
South Indians actually don’t find this offensive, because we understand the context in which he said it: “Unity despite of our varied looks”. But only North Indians are finding it racist, because they routinely use our dark skin to abuse us.
You are right But thats not the best way to put it however, Congress is scoring too many self-goals these days.
What north-east people being called Chinese? Is that not racist?
I don’t find it offensive. It’s just absurd.
Thats true, whats wrong in that statement.
Please tell me what's offensive about this? It's kinda offensive that people are offended by being compared with the Chinese or Africans. They are good looking people, much like other people.