Comments on: India at Beijing Olympics 2008

By: Britannia RulesTheWaves

Britannia RulesTheWaves — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:45:08 +0000

Someone, someone Indian, ought to tell the Indian Olympic team to “straighten the f**k up and show some pride!” As shown in the opening ceremony photo, they looked like a bunch reluctant draftees dragging themselves thru an event that they didn’t wanna be at in the first place.

By: tanya

tanya — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:23:57 +0000

great job india…………………….

By: jayaraman

jayaraman — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:39:28 +0000

Bindra’s statement in Times of India tells it all. So, unless you have people who are interested in sports and the welfare of sports person, sports in this country will not improve at the most it can change for the worst. The guy at the top must have the guts to change things in the sports associations. The local residents associations must also involve in sports apart from the other things they are doing – which effectively means each one of us should get involved in sports. So, the blame lies with each one of us. We get so upset when an american finds fault with us and he is right when he says we cannot digest criticism, to accept ones fault one requires courage, use the criticism to develop ourselves. There was a time when the Japanese goods were neglected – but today? The neglect is what turned the Japs, so why cannot we turn our country around?

By: Matelot

Matelot — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:06 +0000

add to my previous post:

That is why we have this scene here in US:
* 8 out of 10 people a recruiter sends in = Indian
* The overwhelming majority in IT organization in almost ANY urban area = Indian.

This is not because Indians are good at this or they cost less…no, this is just because Indians have the overwhelming number advantage.

By: Matelot

Matelot — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:49:26 +0000

>> Chris Todd:
>> American loves programming, not coding……

I totally agree…

and I have expressed this similar opinion since at least 5 years ago: that – in general – Americans (or European, East Asians) get into IT (especially programming) because they genuinely LIKE it, this is not unlike a pianist enjoy playing the piano, a guitarist loves playing the guitar…..

But Indians – because of financial, social…..etc factors – in general, mostly got into IT because of the money/status/opportunities etc.
He/She could very well become a good musician/athlete/doctor/teacher etc but this giant “IT-is-the-way-to-go machine” sucked him/her into it.

By: Chris Todd

Chris Todd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:47:03 +0000

To Shai,

American loves programming, not coding, and seriously, I have hired Indians who have beautiful resume, but getting the basic programming syntax wrong, and still dared to argue with me when it happened right in front of me.

After many many and many similar encounters with Indians, my conclusion is, Indian doesn’t like to admit mistakes, to others and even to themselves – self-denial.

So alot of opinion from Indians towards themselves are biased, they over-praised themselves, but under-scrutinized their capability.

I can’t understand why it is so hard to be self-critical, the americans, europeans, chinese, japanese, korean all are proud, but critical. Indians are clearly not.

By: Shai

Shai — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:16:53 +0000

It was interesting to read Chris Todd’s comments. However, I would like to point out that winning Olympic medals is difficult. Gold medal is especially so difficult. Countries like Sweden, Greece and Austria did not win any gold medal in Beijing. In past, a large segment of Indian population did not have had enough income to send kids for sports classes. However, it is changing very rapidly. India will win more medals in future because it has enough talent to overcome all the problems. It’ll be great if more Indian corporations emulate Mittals. Lastly I have observed that US programmers love their programming.

By: Ex Indian

Ex Indian — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:19:14 +0000

As a person of Indian origin, now leaving in the US and grew up in the US all I can say to you from an outside persepective is this..
Every comment I read is about the government doesn;t do this, the politicans are corrupt..etc etc..
Why wait for the government to do it, Don’t you live in a community, you have to have a grassroots approach as opposed to a top down approach to this..the government job is to provide safe haven against foreign powers, by the way doesn’t do in india.
Water,shelter should be provided for by the independent states, which again doesn;t do this,
What do you pay taxes for?…go have a community meeting get involved build athlectic stadiums in your community!!
all I can say is thank god my parents left india, because honestly I wouldn’t have gotten where I am today…
good luck

By: Chris Todd

Chris Todd — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:06:51 +0000

hahahahaahaha…….

1 bilion people with 1 gold…

indians are pathetic…either busy dreaming of being superior….or finding excuses for covering inferiority….

first about aryan, then about being colonied by moghul and british….and about doing coding that american doesn’t want to do……

i think 50 years later, indian is still dreaming that they are the best….

By: matelot

matelot — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:14:09 +0000

> Kalyanjit Sarmah said:
>……If third world countries like China can do it then why we can’t?

uhh because India is 5th world “country” that’s still stuck in the 17th century with a shit load of “baggages” ?

Maybe you should invite your former British “Masta” back LOL