By Nish on Oct 18, 2006 in General, Travel | 2 Comments
I found a nice article, comparing China and India with the title China vs. India: A battle of ideas by Anand Giridharadas of International Herald Tribune. Let me share some excerpts from itShanghai was a bit like Mumbai until the Chinese government did what the Indian government cannot do: in the 1990s its planners, brushing aside any pre-existing claims, cleared the way for developers to construct in barely 10 years the gleaming, futurist metropolis of Pudong, across the river from the Bund
Meghnad Desai, an economist of Indian origin who is a member of Britain’s House of Lords, wrote in a recent academic paper: “China will again become a viable Great Power, India may remain just a Great Democracy.”
The article is worth reading, the link for it is on IHT
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By Nish on Oct 15, 2006 in General, Reviews, Travel | 16 Comments
Let me start with introducing my self, I am an Indian, professionally Process Consultant (six sigma Black Belt) who got a job offer from a Shanghai based company to work on to improve processes of their client in Shanghai. When i told this to my parents, reaction was China..why what will u eat there..how will you sustain, people(from India) usually go to US, UK but China..nnnnaa..Even i was confused..but offer was good, not v good in terms of money but the exposure and as a value add, yes it was worth making an attempt. So i made up my mind, ok i will go, which was not easy ..Once, I was through with this another issue popped up, one more company offered my 70% of what i was offered in Shanghai and were also ready to send me to UK for 3 months to compensate, but after lot of confusion and discussion i decided against it as it was a BPO..
To cut it short I was finally going to Shanghai. Read more... (807 words, 0 images, estimated 3:14 mins reading time)
