India was and still is a “non aligned” country, staying neutral during the Cold War but leaning Soviet Union when the Congress party was dominant. India was never under US sanction, although my memory is hazy if any was imposed during the nuclear crisis between India and Pakistan.
Although there is some truth to this, your comment has a casual racist undertone to it. Most Indians I personally know (Middle class and up) dont need to rebuilt as you’ve stated.
Replace ‘India’ in your comment with any other country in the world and you’ll know what I mean.
You are being too kind. There is absolutely no truth in the poster's statements, weirdly anecdotal and it is strongly racist. Yes, surely owing to a majority poor population an average indian is undernourished compared to their western counterparts (averages) which reflects in physical measures such as height, it is a long stretch to say they are _weak_. Poster is giving examples of moving to foreign lands as if the rest of world does it regularly, and mind you there is far more mobility in India because job market is much more concentrated to a select bunch of big cities to where all people from their small towns and cities flock to.
I want to provide details of our early history because they are not well-known. There were two bootstrapped entities, one in the US and one in India back in 1995. In the suburb of East Tambaram in Chennai, India, my brothers Kumar Vembu (now founder and CEO of GoFrugal and also active in Zoho Corp) and Sekar Vembu (now founder and CEO of Vembu Technologies) and Shailesh Kumar (who heads our Engineering and Zoho Labs today) started a bootstrapped operation at home. Kumar returned from the US after a very brief 1-year stint, and found some contract software development work in the field of telecom software and that was how he paid the bills.
In the US, our co-founder Tony Thomas, who I talk to almost daily to seek his wisdom, my personal daily Buddha, started a bedroom operation in New Jersey in 1995, and he brought in our co-founder Sreenivas Kanumuru (CEO of vTiger). Tony’s elder brother Joy Thomas, who recently passed away (RIP, Joy) and one of the all-time great students from IIT Chennai, helped Tony with a personal loan. Tony had started to work on a library for the SNMP API protocol in Java.
As of late 1995, I was not in the picture, other than advising my brothers. A common friend from IIT introduced me to Tony (who was 3 years ahead of me in IIT and I did not know him during my student days). I then introduced Tony to my brothers in India. They started working together in mid to late 1996.
Yes, in SOME of the places, SOME of the floods water could have been stopped by dams.
But overwhelmingly, the floods are beyond the scope of any damming technology, it's just..... SO-MUCH-WATER! and all of it in in one go, in a very short period of time!
I can't drink a weeks water intake in one gulp.
We had a headworks just break and give way because of the sheer supply of water broke the concrete structure of the barrier. This is a barrage that survived the equally horrific 2010 floods.
And this is besides the fact that a lot of the areas simply aren't dam-able. This is not one big flood, these are multiple, separate floods all occurring in the same time.
A dam on that big river a hundred miles away from me will prevent floods from that direction, but can't do anything about the sudden cloud burst coming from the other direction.
> the floods are beyond the scope of any damming technology
Claiming this could have been prevented with dams is asinine. But claiming it’s beyond technology is defeatist. 10x surges are never pretty, but they shouldn’t be this bad.
There are water management practices which can manage order of magnitude surges. (There were dams which breached, for instance.) This usually involves creating diversions and dedicated sacrificial zones (flood plains) between the expected surge sites and a reservoir (ideally, the ocean).
If the problem is unaddressable, due to lack of funds or politics, the areas should be de-populated and/or evacuation procedures put in place.
This requires control where people house and the ability to remove people who do not follow the law. This is not water management infrastructure this is social infrastructure.
> the areas should be de-populated and/or evacuation procedures put in place.
They would populate on their own if were able to move freely. The volume of people displaced however would end up in the "imperial core" and apparently we can't have that
Removing citizenship without providing a reason is an inhumane crime. Have some empathy and get a reality check. This is next level authoritarian shit and you seem to let it slide and call it hysteria.
India’s automobile industry is highly competitive. Ford enjoyed just a 2% market share thanks to their shitty low tech car line up. Indians had better to choose from.
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