Indian Companies bought by MNCs

Yes as you say there are many good Indian companies which were bought by MNCs, Thumbsup is a good example. As for cometics, Sunilk too was Indian, and the first to sell shampoo in sachet, they were bought by Clavin Klien in a good move. And why not talk about Sameer Bhatia selling away his Hotmail.
Indians could compete neither with the quality nor with the business skills of the outside world. And this would happen as long as we try follow their life style.
So, should we go back to use Shikkakai..!!! Maybe it too has its own users as Tender coconut, Ganna juice(sugar cane) and nimbu pani (lime) still have their say.
So, the solution may be promoting the traditional way into the mordern lifestyle and also at the same time developing technologies and skills to compete with the outside world.
If we feel the present generation who are good 'workeres/engineers' with the MNCs all over the world, could not compete in producing and marketing, with the MNC, we can groom our kids to be more disciplined and bold enough to emerge an entreprenuer.
Talking about promoting traditional ways, I have been living in Japan and South Korea, couple of years each, the colas couldn't get a strong hold there. Though these countries are developed and modern in all aspects, much of their traditional things are still used. When the Asian countries who adopted the culture from India could preserve it why can't we. And one of the most important economic strategy that we have to learn from these countries are, they consumed their own products and stabilised it domestically before opening up their country for the MNCs. Hyundai, LG, Samsung are such companies which first developed a strong domestic market without allowing the foreign brands to enter the country, thanks to their thoughtful government and the discplined and hardworking manpower with an attitude.

Segregation at source

This is not something new; this is not something that only people in developed nation do. We in India have practised it. In spite of the well intentioned move by the government to segregate the garbage and in spite of trying to educate the people, the meaning of biodegradable and non biodegradable, it is still remaining an unaccomplished task to have a considerable segregation of the garbage. The garbage collector of the corporation comes to our door steps with his vehicle having two distinct compartments for each. However in most cases the segregation is not done at the source, the house.

Just going back to my childhood days I remember how we used to collect all the plastics and paper separately and sell it to the recycle vendor. I remember even washing of the milk sachet, which invariably makes the plastic easier to recycle, though it was done to recover the milk to the last drop.
The collection of plastic milk sachets, bottles and containers, though were not done with a concern for environment, rather more as a money tapping practise, was indeed a good practise. Papers of all sorts from newspapers to magazines and flyers were collected and sold to the recycle vendor. English newspapers are costlier than Tamil due to the quality difference – segregation at the source. As a need of the hour, due to the rising environmental calls, why not we follow it again.

If you are the one who is concerned about the environment, segregate the plastics at home and hand over to the recycle vendor.
If you are a good engineer, how about designing a good vehicle and method for the recyclables collector who still now is coming in his old rusted cycle shouting out under the scorching sun? You can be one of the 3 Idiots.
I was quite moved, during a recent conversation, when I learnt from one such collector that both of his kids, a son and a daughter, were doing engineering.

As heard from one of the analysts - in our present situation we have reached a point where it is difficult to imagine life without plastics, hence rather than planning to ban plastics, plan to effectively recycle it.

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