[Assam] NYT Take risks or become like Japan (of today)

[umesh sharma]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/opinion/02tamamoto.html?em

I know many Assamesewho hav the expertise in compueters and IT as a whole - some of whomare inerested in doing something about starting a business and reaping global economies of scale - but most seem happy with doing 10% for the cause while 90% reserved to bettering/strengthenig/maintaining their current situation. Who will set upInfosys-like operatios to exploit/energize cheap skiled laor of Assam's colleges - when Indian metros aresuffering ue to wage and real estae inflation.

 As March Hare said in Alice in Wonderland " It takes all the running you can do to remain in the same place, and twice as much to each somewhere else" -- meaning even t maintain your current psition in job etc requires all yor effort, and you have to pu in twice as much to improve and meet other goals ( I think my medical doctor uncle - a very wily, cunning fox - told me this - now 82 year old - he married at age 12. His wife died last year -a succesful family wih grape farms, real estate business, political connections - besides top medical position in the state in a totally new land  )
 
This article seems to echo what I witnessed a Harvard - I was going thru m post on Assamnets predecssor (on mail-archive.com ) during the time I was at Harvard and there was one which was about meeting Japanese students at Harvard. Then I hd remarked that except for one student Juno (who was pretty dynamic  a stanford college grad [on scholarhip as he told me ] as I found after many months)  the rest was jus going wtih the flow. Later I took a course with a Chilean professor at Harvad who had ust returned from Japan.. hHe had been hired to inject some creativiy in the high school students there - he saidthat the younger students were already creative but older ones tended to be not. In a way he answered one of my research quetions - why don't (most) rich kids (and their parents -esp if businessmen) seem unintersted in cutting edge education. They have become risk-averse -- like the Marwari business families (originally from Rajasthan)

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