India
PM Modi has been awarded the Straits Times’ Asian of the Year Award in a
similar fashion as Obama when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize a few days
into office with nothing to show but promises and promises. Modi is also all
promises and sounds and fury if you read the Indian press.
Let’s see what were his great achievements to deserve the
Asian of the Year Award that put him ahead of more deserving candidates who
have done exceptionally well during their terms in office. Thien Sein of
Myanmar and Yudhoyono of Indonesia, two illustrious Presidents that worked
tireless, but quietly without any big mouth and highly infatuated Myanmese or
Indonesians to blow their trumpets. These two men have achieved a lot for their
countries without claiming or saying anything.
Ok, back to Modi and I quote Ravi Velloor in the front page
of ST on 6 Dec. His achievements, ‘impressive election victory for his party in
this year’s national election,…energised India
with is stirring calls for a development focus and “toilets before temples”.’
He would not mind if there are countries willing to offer to build him smart
cities if he does not have to pay for it. And he is smart enough to grab the
opportunities for such expensive freebies by quickly saying yes to the generous
offer.
His other achievements, ‘call for Make in India
campaign’. Ravi added a big IF, ‘if pursued to its
logical conclusion with a friendlier investment climate and less rigid labour
norms, could help fire up the growth engines of US$2 trillion. This is
impressive, just a call that, subject to so many what ifs, could lead to US$2
trillion!
And ‘Economists project that as early as next year, India
could pick up the growth baton from China…a
resurgent India
will be a boon for the region and the world.’ I am still trying to figure out
what have all these got to do with his achievements when it is the promise of a
future created by a changing world economy. I can only see the similarity of
Obama and the hope for peace that lies ahead of him.
I think the strongest factor to his credit is that Singapore
leaders have seen the potential in him. This must be his greatest asset and achievement
to warrant the Award, his potential and noticed by Singapore’s
wise leaders. I think he must be the one and only leader to be pointed out by Singapore
leaders for potential. Singapore
leaders are also exceedingly good at picking potential ping pong players from
the kindergartens in China.
Oh, he has made his mark already by ‘reaching out to
neighbours and receiving world leaders, including Australia’s
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and China’s
President Xi Jinping. In January he will be seeing Obama! Fantastic
achievements for a great leader with great potential!
I think they may give him an Award for Asian of the Century
if he had met Lee Kuan Yew and our President Tony Tan.
Straits Times editor Warren Fernandez had this to say, ‘the
award to Mr Modi is as much a recognition of his record as an administrator who
has propelled his home state, Gujarat, to global attention, as for the promise
of reenergising larger India.’
If making a state to get global attention is the reason for
the Award, I think the Sultan of Johore is more deserving for making Johore
well known with his huge Iskandar Economic Zone that would dwarf anything in Gujarat.
The Award is more like an Award for potential a la Obama.
Modi has a few more years to see through his potential and in this he is one up
on Obama who had failed to live up to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s faith
in him to bring peace to the world. Modi could do well to see the US$2 trillion
becoming a reality to do justice to this Award. For the moment his best
achievements are meeting state leaders and impressing Singapore
leaders with his potential. I think Tony Tan did far better than him by being a
house guest at Buckingham Palace
and dining and chit chatting with the Queen of Great Britain. Really great
stuff.
Kopi Level - Yellow
12 comments:
Can this be nothing more than a fairy tale?
Is this a game of Yew "recognize" me, I "recognize" Yew??
More like a case of fakes recognising the fakes to con the daft.
Let's hope we have 'recognized" the "correct" Indian.
Otherwise, if/when the "wrong" Indian become Prime Minister;
we may have to kiss our smart cities in India goodbye.
The smart Indians will all move to Singapore and enjoy instant smart city benefits. Why so stupid to build smart cities in a subcontinent of slums. By the time the city is completed it would become another slum.
Being recognized by #154 is hardly an achievement but it does provide comic relief for readers, tired of reading about overseas jaunts of overpaid fat cats.
Make him Singapore's PM. Issue him with a pink IC like Tharman said, instant tree formula.
Every politician in the world is an ENTITLED ASSHOLE, because if they didn't have an ego which tells them : "You should be running things because you're better than the rest of the noobs and hayseeds. They NEED your awesome leadership and your fantastic 'magic' which makes you SPECIAL"
But enough already with putting down politicians. at the end of the day, SOMEONE has to GIVE THEM THE POWER, and that "someone" are THE SHEEPLE.
India is the world's biggest democracy--or if you like curry-crazy or chapati-crazy, so therefore the inescapable conclusion is, as always:
1. You can't cheat an honest man
2. The cuntree gets the government they deserve
Origin: "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite." -- Joseph de Maistre, echoed by others like Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln, and yours truly--the small fry aka Matilah_Singapura
You must have noticed the silly boys idolising this god that has done nothing good so far. Don't forget he has a warrant of arrest in the US for his part in killing the Muslims in his state a decade ago.
@235:
IMO, people who kill Muslims are worthy recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize...:-))
Joke only, ok, jagan marah...
Conchita offering itself for free.
Recognizing an oppportunist who whipped up Hindu fanaticism in order to get elected?
The award by ST is as prestigious as the paper's free press ranking.
Modi is a drunk megalomaniac dreaming that India is a super power. He is spending more on mission to Mars, buying more weapons and submarines, conducting military wargames in the Pacific and bullying his neighbours.
He got money and time to build toilets?
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