Does India continue to be a land of mysteries? How could one explain the vulgar show of wealth?

Question

Indian Scene!

Donation in crores to a temple! There it remains as static useless asset as addressee remains unavailable.

One couple - a combination of local and foreign origins - many marriages celebrated in many countries with a vulgar show of wealth forgetting human and humane living ethics!

Billionaires' galore! Assumed leadership in Asia defeating Japan with high concentration of wealth in a few thanks to facilitator Governments including Communist West Bengal!

Planning a rocket-trip to a celestial abode - Moon - at the cost of billions, forgetting and escaping from all pressing priorities ignoring even the basic essentials that its citizens need.

How nice this country would be to live in if the Government and the few wealthy spent more towards achieving social equality among the subjects than throwing money in the gutters of ego and pride! Agree or Disagree?

Answer 1

Surely this is not a a perspective exclusively on India, but rather just a current example of the greed-driven society that has been present since cavemen discovered the advantages of having the biggest club.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

India is a LAND OF MYSTERIES - not because we now have many "also ran" Millionaires and Billionaires, but because we have more than 500 Sects and Dialects; because we have over 400 Languages; because we have over dozens of religions with hundreds of different sectarian groups in each; because we have as many systems of Food and Culture as we have sects and dialects; because we have a unified Ethos which prescribes self abnegation but the society still accepts the vulgarity of wealth, resulting in corruption and hypocracy. And the latest mystery is that while on the one hand we have 36 Billionaires (the highest outside the US), we also have the largest number of malnourished children, whose number will outwit the population of the whole of Canada!

Answer 4

Is this question out of envy or concern for poor? I can only say that rich are greedy but the poor are not greedy. If poor gets greedy then they will also get rich. There is no reason why a person does not get rich if he works hard, unless he is handicapped. The handicapped must be taken care of. I can never recommend social equality by distributing money to poor. Then we will be encouraging a lazy nation. I am yet to see any expenditure by rich going waste and not reaching the poor. If the rich does not spend how can money change hands? The expenditure (buying power) of rich creates work to others. Encourage them to spend as lavishly as he can. But never support rich exploiting poor. Be aware of the difference.

Answer 5

Jealousy is the root cause of all evils in India. Everyone wants to grab State power and derive economic advantage over others. Everyone wants to ride the path of corruption to become rich. When everyone, from the richest to the poorest, is jealous about others and want to become quick rich, it is only natural that they will show off their rich status in some form. Others may consider it vulgur. I do not agree that Govt. can do anything: it has always in the past and will continue in the future to waste money, time and resources. And, when we depend on such a powerful State for our betterment, we will never fulfill our dreams. Get rid of such power from the State.

Answer 6

IT WILL BE LAND OF COMMUNIST FROM BENGAL

WHY?

WB GOVT WILL ACQUIRE THE WORLD.

HOW?

BY MAKING THE WORLD PLACE FOR STRAVING ILLETERATE POOR AND CHANTING COMMUNIST SLOGAN.
HOW?

If WB GOVT is Really Interested for Industrialization and Benefit of Bengal, It Can Use
1.BARREN LAND of 1000 * n Sq.Km in Jhargram, Bankura, Bishnupur, Purulia, Kharagpur area AT FREE OF COST These places has GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE, whereas NANDIGRAM IS REMOTE VILLAGE WITH WOODEN BRIDGE AND NO BLAK TOP ROAD.

2.Also Land of Closed Industries (Almost 100%) in Bengal

Instead of above, it is using THE MOST FERTILE LAND in SINGUR, the most remote village NANDIGRAM, etc even AT VERY HIGH PRICE.

Population is Increasing and Govt is Forcing to Decrease Cultivable Land. Is It Intended to Create an Artificial Food Scarcity?

More over ALMOST 100% industries in Bengal are closed and the Govt knows the fate of these new upcoming industries…….CLOSED BEFORE START?

Since these fertile lands will no longer be available for food grain production, there will be starvation. Moreover, industries will be closed before they start production AND PEOPLE WILL REGAIN UNEMPLOYMENT. CONCLUTION- WB will be permanent state of STARVING POOR COMMUNIST. –EXCELLENT LONGTERM STRATEGY OF CPM TO WIN ANY WORLD AND ALSO CUP.

Answer 7

In Bombay, India's Wealth and Poverty on Display


India's economy is booming, but the new wealth is not shared by all. Some 400 million Indians still live on less than a dollar a day. This disparity in wealth is starkly evident in Bombay, which doubles as the commercial capital of India and the home of the largest slum in Asia.
Tie for a crore, car for five

A display of wealth or evidence of a market for luxury goods?

"GREED is good". These words, immortalised on the screen in the 1987 Hollywood film, "Wall Street", appropriately described the U.S. of the 1980s, when the acquisition of wealth and profligate consumption were highly valued. As we climb the ladder to developed country status, as we are told we are doing, those words can well describe the attitude of upper class Indians in the first decade of the 21st Century.

There now seem to be enough Indians who have the money and want to flaunt it by acquiring the most outrageous kinds of products. Whatever then does one make of two recent news reports? One, of a tie for men that is on sale for Rs. 1 crore and, the second, of the Maybach car that can be had for a mere Rs. 5 crores? Manufacturers and importers are confident that there is now a market in India for what are called "luxury goods", but are better described as products that are a vulgar display of extreme wealth.

The tie, which has 261 diamonds that give it its fame and price, is the more notable of the two products. Unlike the Maybach, the tie is not imported, but wears a "Made in India" label. And unlike the Maybach, which is not the most costly car in the world, the tie is said to be the most expensive of its kind. One can only say, "Wow, another first for India." The diamonds in the tie weigh a total of 77 carats, which are more likely to pull down a person's neck or perhaps even strangle him than make a man look all elegance and class. And as the product goes on display from city to city, I am puzzled why women models are wearing this tie meant for men. The 5.5-litre Maybach, we are told, can go from zero to 100 km/hour in just 5.4 seconds and comes with a 600-watt music system. If one feature does not get you killed on Indian roads or run over pedestrians who have no safe place to walk, the other can make your eardrums burst. The Maybach also comes with "aircraft-type" reclining seats and electronically extendable foot rests. But I wonder if this money is better spent on an aircraft itself. There must be planes that can be bought for less than what the Maybach costs.

The vulgarity implied in the prices of these two products is obvious, but here, just in case, is just one set of statistics. India's average per capita income is now Rs 22,000 a year. That means the total income of a family of five would be, on the average, Rs 1.1 lakh a year. So our own diamond-studded tie costs 100 times as much as an Indian family can, on the average, expect to earn in a year and the Maybach costs nearly 500 times as much the annual family income! This is gross inequality, plain and simple.

What does it say about us as a society that we still have the world's largest number of under-nourished people (214 million in 2001 according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation) and yet have fellow citizens who are potential buyers of the world's most expensive tie! We are now told by the new intellectual leaders of the times that the problem in the past was that Nehruvian socialism frowned on the creation of wealth. If only we had encouraged the acquisition of wealth in the first four decades after Independence, we would not have 214 million under-nourished Indians among us in the 21st Century. Yes, there was a fair amount of hypocrisy about the austerity of the earlier decades. Upper crust wealth was perhaps only a shade less important in the 1950s to the 1980s than today. In the absence of too many avenues for conspicuous consumption, all the wealth (mostly illegally acquired) used to be converted into gold bars, stashed away in Swiss bank accounts or just kept as cash in trunks. In that sense, there is now a greater element of honesty in the display of wealth. May be, but only the insensitive Indian will not feel deeply embarrassed by such astronomically priced articles of consumption as are now available.

By the way, if the Rs. 1 crore diamond tie and the Rs. 5 crore Maybach are too expensive for you, do not worry. You can still buy ties for just Rs. 15,000 or luxury cars for between Rs. 1.67 crores and Rs. 3 crores. That is competition in "India shining" for you.

Answer 8

There is always this cycle in the history of any country in this planet.. Consider the great Mauryan Empire that reached its peak of fame and prosperity in Asoka's regime period only to break up after his demise and decline... Same in the Emperor Akbar's period that waned after his grandson Aurangazeb's period..

Even in the epic periods like Krishna's time, there were greedy and egoistic kings as well as highly evolved ones...

Yet in your querry you had expected rich Indians to be better appreciative of the plight of their poorer fraternity... Usually the wealth and noble attributes do not go together... That is why saints and sages keep away from wealth and fame...

They even avoid using their spiritual powers (Sidhis) much in order not to attract crowds and build up fame.. Since wealth and fame are sure to kindle one's pride and attachments to the worldly pleasures and destroy their hard-earned equanimity..

Only the Avathars like Lord Krishna or Jesus - who are not ordinary mortels - would use their divine powers.. Such is the hold of the illusion of created world.. Yet great spiritual wealth is still in India to lift it up from the wordly trap it has fallen - in infatuation with the western culture based on materialism - in the lines of great souls of the past (like Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramana etc..).

Sree Sathya Sai Baba (south India), the spiritualist, philanthropist and social activist par excellence is already awakening the humanity through His own example of dedication and service to the poor and the suffering... The great Golden Age (sathya yuga) that Sri Aurobindo spoke of is already coming..

It is just no use in finding fault with the society without making our own contribution however small... Let us all do our little to alleviate the problems of the poor we see.. learn to live in harmony with our neighbours and colleagues... the accumulated vibrations of love and harmony would change the hearts of the toughest sceptic and materialists..

Answer 9

it's amazing. The page 3 people are having aball of atime with full media support.when shall the 'Have-nots ' be able to break the barrier of religion, race,castes and snatch the control from so called royal, kings and queens , nawabs and their pet mafias, polce and even the judiciary.