I thought I would clarify my thoughts from the previous blog post further. It's not about what passport you hold or whether you speak with an Indian accent. (Although the bastardized Indian-American accent from Jersey or the Bay Area is the singularly most disgusting thing one can ever hear).
I think it's about "karmabhoomi". For those of my friends who are not native Hindi speakers. This word literally means "The soil where you work". In other words, the geography where you achieve your greatest successes. If you look at the examples I had given-Nooyi and Mittal, both of these luminaries achieved whatever they had to outside India.
Thus if India was not their "karmabhoomi", how can we realistically call their successes Indian successes?
I think it's about "karmabhoomi". For those of my friends who are not native Hindi speakers. This word literally means "The soil where you work". In other words, the geography where you achieve your greatest successes. If you look at the examples I had given-Nooyi and Mittal, both of these luminaries achieved whatever they had to outside India.
Thus if India was not their "karmabhoomi", how can we realistically call their successes Indian successes?
2 comments:
Hence they are not called a great Indian story, but a great Indian...successful Indian story is that of the Murthy's and the likes. Successful Indian is a person who is Indian and has spent a majority of his life there irrespective of where he achieved success. Non-Indians call Mittal Indian born billionaire not British Billionaire, do they?
Indian is to belong to the country. These are Indian successes but of a different kind. To say they are not Indian success as you have mentioned in the last line of this posting hence in my opinion still not right. Indian Success is not being successful in India (karmabhoomi).
Pee Are
Pee Are,
Would you have called Gandhi a great Indian if his only success had been in South Africa?
-R
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