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Masters at the art of talking the talk

July 5, 2009 posted by indiatime |

A few days of a few inches of rains and Mumbai, it is being reported, has logged out. Barely last week, the Worli sea link, the city’s newest engineering marvel was being hailed as its greatest accomplishment. Within days, it is now clear, that the sea-link bypass is prone to traffic jams of unforeseen proportions and may actually make your commute longer than the original route. Years after talking the talk about turning Mumbai into Shanghai, Mumbai’s dreams of becoming India’s Shanghai remain far from accomplished.

But talking the talk is what tricks gullibles, fools the skeptics amd insults everyone. The city of Rajkot recently announced plans to become a major solar city. Just a few months ago, another city, Nagpur, was being bragged about as India’s first solar city. A few months earlier, Chandigarh was bragging to become India’s first solar city. While Indians talked about building dozens of solar cities, China in the meantime, flew ahead in the alternative world, overtaking India in wind power.

Two years ago, India’s space chief Madhavan Nair boasted that India could go to Mars in 5 years. He pretty much ate back some of his words yesterday, admitting that India’s moon-rover mission was facing technological problems and it might take an extra year to put a four-wheeler on the moon.

The only thing India’s politicians and bureaucrats have mastered and are at top of, is lying. You know, we could be discussing this 50 years later, and Mumbai will still be a hundred years behind Shanghai and a million years behind New York. The only city Mumbai is close to turning into is New Orleans. We came pretty close to it a few years ago. We will be closer to it in a few weeks.


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  1. Vinoy on July 6, 2009 2:08 pm

    After an election meeting, when I asked a politician as to how was he going to fulfil all the promises that he had made during his speech, he just laughed and said-”While I have started forgetting the promises right now, the ‘public’ will be able to forget them in a few weeks’ time;you know, public memory is proverbially short!”

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