08 October, 2015

Enemy of Excellence

In a recent TV commercial,  a father and son go to a prospective bride's place to see her. When the girl enters the room, the boy looks at the picture he had been given of her earlier, finds a mismatch and tells the father so. The father tries to mollify the son with 'unees bees chalta hai', or, minor differences are to be condoned.
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Can our ingrained Indian habit of settling for 'unees bees' or second best, letting price and crude functionality win over quality, the 'chalta hai' attitude come in the way of our goal to become the manufacturing destination of the world?

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