Gandhiji preached "Be Indian, buy Indian". But all Indians proudly show off Nokia, Daewoo, Armani etc

Question

The symbol of a successful Indian:

Wear Saville Row, Gucci, Armani.
Drive Mercedes, BMW, Toyota Land cruiser.
Eat Mc Donalds, KFC, drink Pepsi and coke.
Show off Nokia, Motorola mobile.
Display Swaroski crytals in the drawing room.
Educate children in London , Harvard, Ivy league.
Buy Dell, Toshiba, Sony, PS3, XBOX etc.
Work for MNCs

700 million poor Indians are watching them in amazement and clap hands without any hopes.

This is the lifestyle of those Industrialists who have been dumping poor quality products on millions of Indians for 60 years.

Answer 1

Why waste time on doing things that are already there. Why not use your brains to do something else. A lot of the software and hardware developments of products that are used globally has been done in India, many of them are Indian ideas and totally developed in India.
You have the Europeans and the US lining up their experiments for the Indian Moon mission, India builds low cost and high quality satellites, and more such stuff.
The world is becoming a village, so why limit youself to boundries?
Life's Lovely! Love & Live Life!

Answer 2

Gandhiji said these almost 60 years ago when there were national barriers , limited scopes for trade and economic activities between countries. Now , the world has come together. and has become dependent on each other for growth and development.

what India could not achieve in 50 years after the independence , the country has acieved in 7 years , thanks to Information Technology and India`s dominant position in the world. there are less number of poor people now. there is more money in the hands of people and more prosperity visibe.

Once the barriers are broken and more Indians live abroad and more money comes in all the other goodies also will come in. Nothing wrong.

Would gandhiji have said" Be Indian . Donot go out India. Do not work for the other countries..." No. And , friend, you say 700 million poor people now? . No. Less. Much less. Much much less. That too, they have employment opportunities, food , clothing , shelter, minimum wages. What the real problem is that the purchasing power of these people is still less.

Do you know that India is the oe country where you can get a square meal for 25 cents (Rs. 10) , $ 2 ( rs. 90) or $ 20 ( Rs. 900) and $ 200( Rs. 9000). Everything coexists all the time.

Answer 3

Gandhiji was a smart businessman..he understood the nuances of the business and money more than people give him credit for.

The slogan " be indian, buy indian" was a weapon against the british empire, encouraging indians to boycott foreign goods, and thus hit the british business hard.

Times have changed and economies are more open now, many foreign companies have invested in India and many of the foreign goods we buy today are made in India.

However, your question talks about the poor Indians, which needs attention and resolution. India should devise the best strategies for improving their conditions, and if they find boycotting foreign goods is a solution, then so be it.

Answer 4

Changes are sweeping everywhere throughout the world and India is no exception. If I wear Pant or shirt that is it suits me. It doesnt mean we are against Khadi or we are less Indian. Of course the super rich can afford Mercedes, showcase Swaroski crystals etc. What finally matters is that even while adjusting our lifestyle which of late is becoming westernised, we can retain our culture which has very few comparisons. Of course we dont need to blindly ape the west. What is the need to sip dangerous carbonated colas when we have the nutrient rich Tender Coconuts that nature has given us in abundance. By encouraging cottage industries we can help our village community in one way or another.

Answer 5

All principles and the slogans should be understood in the context in which they were made. That was the time, when the British imperialistic forces were draining our resources dumping their goods on us and Swadeshi movement was relevant at that time, to protect the Indian cottage industry and the handicrafts, sustaining the local talents. Now, it is an era of globalisation. No taboo for the use of gadgets made out of India. Further, these MNCs are coming to India to manufacture these goods.

Answer 6

it truly is only ridicules debate happening in YA. i do no longer recognize how lots of you've lived in south India yet I easily have lived in Chennai and that i'm from Madhya Pradesh. i did not locate any racism, i did not locate any Aryans and Dravidian stuff, I visited quite a few places in Tamilnadu. In 1950 at the same time as India grew to change into republic, authorities of India needed to make Hindi as reliable language for governments, together with interior of sight, state and union authorities, yet South Indian states were no longer prepared for an same as those locals did not recognize Hindi. on the instantaneous authorities of India, gave them 15 years extention. In 1965 at the same time as authorities of India again tried to make Hindi as reliable language for governments, then their became huge protest in South India, because of that, authorities of India reverted this selection and when you consider that then reliable language is English and local language. there have been some leaders that felt that South Indians are ruled by skill of North Indians which contain Periyar, yet he has oposition of Annadurai. those form of contain historic previous. there is not any subject matters between South Indian and North Indian. All are all and dissimilar are Indian. Why are you dividing India between South and North now?

Answer 7

when gandhiji gave the slogan India was a British colony..now we are independent that was the need of the hour then...now instead of sticking to old slogans India should strive to produce such better products that the British start buying Indian products...until this happen...quality will rule the mind of the consumer irrespective of his nationality or the make of the product.

Answer 8

Gandhiji was cunning leader who kept his population and country poor. Today, in India there is no any good products, or Indian are not rich to offered luxury, few can offered then why you cry....

Answer 9

Yea, but we cannot keep ourselves to Swadesi market when good quality is available in local markets.

This is a good sign in my view because, in competition, Indians will strive for betterment. We Indians are lazy and don't fight back untill challenged to death.

Answer 10

Why not, we still follow Gandhiji since most of these brands are now made in India, that's globalization for you now.