Tuesday, July 24, 2007

India's poor

Mr. Venkatesan, Chairman of Microsoft India recently wrote an article in the wall street journal - "Innovate for India's Poor" - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118470514352969321.html

He starts off by equating Moaists to the hundreds of millions of Indian villagers! He then dismisses the possibility of policy changes benefiting the poor. He disparages the indian political class. He goes on for a couple more paragraphs- cautioning the rich that the poor are going to steal your wealth! And he ends the article saying innovation by corporate's is the key!

Looks like he wrote the article to impress upon his bosses at Redmond.

We all know Microsoft is company which has spent millions of dollars to help people. But Mr Venkatesan needs to be more responsible while criticing indian policies and policy makers.

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