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BBC and Economist still have a colonial hangover and they address issues through the same lens as Lord Macaulay who said "single shelf of a good European librar

BBC and Economist still have a colonial hangover and they address issues through the same lens as Lord Macaulay who said "single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India". You raise an interesting notion about the lack of intermarriage by Parsis, Jains and so on. I am glad that your analysis transcends the false lens of caste but still hangs onto the notion that individual communities, some of who, date back 1000s of years, have some obligation to erase their identity in pursuit of a (false) notion of Universalism. Why should Jains and Parsis have to intermarry and erase their identity? We don't force devout Christians and Muslims to erase their closely held beliefs and marry outside their religion? Why should communities like Jains and Parsis be asked to carry that cross? Do we ask Swedes/Japanese/Chinese/French to marry outside and then why do you hold up that standard for Indian communities? It is another issue if minority shareholders are being disadvantaged because professional managers are not being chosen but transferring voting power to their own in the case of Tata/Cyrus Mistry is no different than Reliance/Ambani (or Wipro/Azimji) passing the baton of Chairmanship to their family.

manquer 5y ago
Every community does the same thing , it doesn't make it okay if small oppressed group (Farsi) does it nor does it make okay a large dominating group does it (Brahmins) or anyone else while I only expanded to the example you cited but specifically mentioned it is a problem with every single community in India. I couldn't possibly have made it clearer it has not do with only a single community small/big deserving or otherwise, but affects all. I can only assume you choose to ignore and read what only you wanted to. The point was inherently companies[1] in India at all levels discriminate on whom to hire and promote. Even companies like Oracle in the U.S. have been sued /accused of this kind of discrimination made by senior indian staff. It is not minority shareholders we are talking about, it is employees who don't get hired or worse never given the opportunity to raise up ladder despite having the merit to do so. It is just not employees either it includes suppliers, vendors, customers, policy makers, politicians , civil servants are all potentially treated and treat the same way. [1] keeping racial identies and only intermarry and keep that cultural identify is every community prerogative to do so no one is complaining, calling them racists is mine and it does make each community and the country as a whole racist. That is not important for this discussion however. What they do at work is what the article is about and this discussion is about and what matters to everyone's life.

manquer 5y ago

Every community does the same thing , it doesn't make it okay if small oppressed group (Farsi) does it nor does it make okay a large dominating group does it (Brahmins) or anyone else while I only expanded to the example you cited but specifically mentioned it is a problem with every single community in India. I couldn't possibly have made it clearer it has not do with only a single community small/big deserving or otherwise, but affects all. I can only assume you choose to ignore and read what only you wanted to. The point was inherently companies[1] in India at all levels discriminate on whom to hire and promote. Even companies like Oracle in the U.S. have been sued /accused of this kind of discrimination made by senior indian staff. It is not minority shareholders we are talking about, it is employees who don't get hired or worse never given the opportunity to raise up ladder despite having the merit to do so. It is just not employees either it includes suppliers, vendors, customers, policy makers, politicians , civil servants are all potentially treated and treat the same way. [1] keeping racial identies and only intermarry and keep that cultural identify is every community prerogative to do so no one is complaining, calling them racists is mine and it does make each community and the country as a whole racist. That is not important for this discussion however. What they do at work is what the article is about and this discussion is about and what matters to everyone's life.