I have been following the y2k readiness status of my beloved India. In a country of corruption and fraud, the government which was so silent on Y2k, suddenly releases full page ads in leading newspapers, telling that every thing under the sun in India is complaint.Every Indian will agree with me, that in the past 50 years of independece, no project has ever been completed in time (average overrun of government projects, runs to several months to a couple of years. Power station and Steel industries run on Russian technology and legacy systems. But according to our captain everything is complaint. Only GOD can save us! Anybody hearing me!

-- srinivas (srini2069@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999

Answers

God bless India. I've been there and its special.

-- Bill Byars (billbyars@softwaresmith.com), December 01, 1999.

After America and Western Civilization go down, India will be the foremost nation in the world.

-- Doomer (doomer@doom.com), December 01, 1999.

Namaste Srrinivas, are you in America or India? Believe me, when the cyclone hit Orrissa and the eastern coast, there was much empathy for India's pain here. I truly hope that y2k does not hit India very hard. I love those people and that place, too. If it does hit hard, Hopefully my friends will be able to get here.... in any case, they have preps for themselves and their household, and grow much of their own food on the land around their home........

-- (formerly known as nobody@nowhere.xxx), December 01, 1999.

We hear ya pal. It seems that government and industry public relations flaks are a seperate species, like roaches, that are everywhere in all cultures.

As MFU says, May He hold us all in His hands,

Kook

-- Y2Kook (Y2Kook@usa.net), December 01, 1999.

I saw the non-technical side of India a few years ago; the architectural splendor of the Taj Mahal,the beautiful countryside, the sidewalk snake charmers, the vast tea plantations, monkey beggars, farmers, etc., it is a beautiful place. Do you feel India has become so dependent on high tech that it will collapse if its infrastructure goes down? Over the course of the centuries, those close to the earth stay there, those in the babel towers come tumblin' down...life goes on....India will endure....the Ganges turtles will always have plenty to eat, and rice will still grow....at least you don't have the most terribly technically advanced military in the world becoming your police force!!
Good to hear from you, Sinivas. Hang in there!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

An interesting aspect of potential Y2K problems in India, is that many international companies have outsourced or located their IT related activities in India's Software Technology Parks. Another aspect of the scary interdependencies, methinks....

-- (indigoseahorse@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999.

Do Indian women like to mudwrestle?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 01, 1999.

Does anyone know if chem-trails fill the skies in India? Not being trollish, I'm just wondering. They'll all the the place here in SW Ohio.

-- genuinely (curious@about.this), December 01, 1999.

srinivas - Thanks for the post, we need that worldwide exposure but I think you should be more concerned about India becoming the most populous country in the world. Its going to surpass China and its racing to the 1 billion mark. Isn't that a lot more frightening than Y2K.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), December 01, 1999.

"MY INDIA"
by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

"Not where the musk of happiness blows,
Nor where darkness and fears never tread;
Not in the homes of perpetual smiles,
Nor in the heaven of a land of prosperity
Would I be born,
If I must put on mortal garb once more.

Dread famine may prowl and tear my flesh,
Yet would I love to be again
In my Hindustan.
A million thieves of disease
May try to steal the body's fleeting health;
And clouds of fate
May shower scalding drops of searing sorrow --
Yet would I there, in India,
Love to reappear!

Is this love of mine blind sentiment
That sees not the pathways of reason?
Ah, no! I love India,
For there I learned first to love God
and all things beautiful.
Some teach to seize the fickle dewdrop, life,
Sliding down the lotus leaf of time;
Stubborn hopes are built
Around the gilded, brittle body-bubble.
But India taught me to love
The soul of deathless beauty in the dewdrop
and the bubble --
Not their fragile frames.
Her sages taught me to find my Self,
Buried beneath the ash heaps
Of incarnations of ignorance.
Through many a land of power, plenty, and science
My soul, garbed sometimes as an Oriental,
Sometimes as an Occidental,
Traveled far and wide,
Seeking Itself;
At last, in India, to find Itself.

Though mortal fires raze all her homes
and golden paddy fields,
Yet to sleep on her ashes and dream immortality,
O India, I will be there!
The guns of science and matter
Have boomed on her shores,
Yet she is unconquered.
Her soul is free evermore!
Her soldier saints are away,
To rout with realization's ray
The bandits of hate, prejudice, and
patriotic selfishness;
And to burn the walls of separation dark
Between children of the One, One Father.
The Western brothers by matter's might
have conquered my land;
Blow, blow aloud, her conch shells all!
India now invades with love,
To conquer their souls.

Better than Heaven or Arcadia
I love Thee, O my India!
And thy love I shall give
To every brother nation that lives.
God made the earth;
Man made confining countries
And their fancy-frozen boundaries.
But with newfound boundless love
I behold the borderland of my India
Expanding into the world.
Hail, mother of religions, lotus, scenic beauty,
and sages!
Thy wide doors are open,
Welcoming God's true sons through all ages.
Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and
men dream God --
I am hallowed; my body touched that sod."

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 01, 1999.

nicely done, A & L!!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

The lucky thing for India is that food is grown even within the cities. India is the most spiritually sophisticated country in the world. (Now reading the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.)

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

srinivas,

We hear you.

*Sigh*

We all feel attached to our home turf, and feel great sadness. Here's hoping the whole world learns some valuable lessons... beyond Y2K.

(Since they refused to beforehand).

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

srinivas,

I hear ya, bud. I worked with a gentlemen who was from the northern part of India and he told some fascinating stories, brought in beautiful pics of India and even supplied my wife with some family recipes. I wish you and your country the best. God bless.

-- Familyman (prepare@home.com), December 01, 1999.

srinivas.....

We hear you.......empathy permeating.......spin is global.......

-- India........... (karlacalif@aol.com), December 01, 1999.