India should concentrate on giving its people a better standard of living not trying to run faster than animals.

What a bloody stupid comment!  Geez!!!

Amazing performance by Hima Das.  Well done.

Prashad posted:

India should concentrate on giving its people a better standard of living not trying to run faster than animals.

how exactly can you start and run a country if you can't focus on different things...maybe you were hit in the head

This was a freakin amazing moment . . . i remember it well

Great for her and for India.  India needs to address corruption in their sports authorities and ensure all top athletes have a fair chance of progressing in national leagues!

Ray posted:

Prashad posted:

India should concentrate on giving its people a better standard of living not trying to run faster than animals.

how exactly can you start and run a country if you can't focus on different things...maybe you were hit in the head

Perhaps with a 12x12 inch piece of lumber.

A wonderful achievement for India especially for Indian women. Him Dass has dispelled the myth that Indian women cannot compete successfully with women from other groups. 

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

Prash, you have to give up this "Indian" thing now. It survived for a while.

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

I think you have some sort of inferiority complex

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

Stupid post.  Have you been living under a rock over the past 50 years?  What are Indians best known for?  Think for 10 seconds before you hit "post"!

Indians are known for their intelligence not for their ability to run, jump and skip. A people of color known for their intelligence. That is an amazing achievement. We are not a kids games people. The world respect us for our intellect. Don't mess with the brand.

Prashad posted:

Indians are known for their intelligence not for their ability to run, jump and skip. A people of color known for their intelligence. That is an amazing achievement. We are not a kids games people. The world respect us for our intellect. Don't mess with the brand.

Indians are known for participating in lots of games,here is one.

In the olden days in Guyana,from Hague WCD the Bacchus brothers were wrestlers and weight lifters,they were known nationally.

My teenage years my cousins and my self used to practice the art of wrestling and a style of martial arts.

Here is another art from India.

https://www.google.com/search?...p;client=firefox-b-1

When a country rises from proverty, it excel in all areas.

India is an example. 

Dave posted:

When a country rises from proverty, it excel in all areas.

India is an example. 

Who says India was impoverished ?,banna read the history of your ancestors.

Django posted:

Prashad posted:

Indians are known for their intelligence not for their ability to run, jump and skip. A people of color known for their intelligence. That is an amazing achievement. We are not a kids games people. The world respect us for our intellect. Don't mess with the brand.

Indians are known for participating in lots of games,here is one.

In the olden days in Guyana,from Hague WCD the Bacchus brothers were wrestlers and weight lifters,they were known nationally.

My teenage years my cousins and my self used to practice the art of wrestling and a style of martial arts.

Here is another art from India.

https://www.google.com/search?...p;client=firefox-b-1

India has a long history of martial arts. Shaolin Kung Fu, a term that includes a large variety of Chinese martial arts, traces its lineage to Bodhidharma, the Indian monk who, according to popular legend, introduced Buddhism to China during the 6th century AD.Jan 10, 2017

 

Django, I take it you believe professional wrestling is real the stuff.

skeldon_man posted:

 

Django, I take it you believe professional wrestling is real the stuff.

WWW most are staged.

Olden days wrestling wasn't .

Django posted:

skeldon_man posted:

 

Django, I take it you believe professional wrestling is real the stuff.

WWW most are staged.

Olden days wrestling wasn't .

All professional wrestling is fake. How can anyone take all that beating and there is no swelling on his body? Think about it. I use to go and watch professional wrestling in the 70s. Saw all that crap.

SK

stop talking lies...is real

Ray posted:

SK

stop talking lies...is real

I guess you speak from experience huh?

Django posted:

Dave posted:

When a country rises from proverty, it excel in all areas.

India is an example. 

Who says India was impoverished ?,banna read the history of your ancestors.

Not surprise you say so..

Prashad does not mind if India produces a female Jahangir khan or a female V.J. Singh.  Those are elite sports. We are not a riff raff people.  We have a long history of contributions to the sciences and the arts.

Dave posted:

Django posted:

Dave posted:

When a country rises from proverty, it excel in all areas.

India is an example. 

Who says India was impoverished ?,banna read the history of your ancestors.

Not surprise you say so..

Report - McKinsey Global Institute - February 2014

India’s path from poverty to empowerment

By Rajat Gupta, Shirish Sankhe, Richard Dobbs, Jonathan Woetzel, Anu Madgavkar, and Ashwin Hasyagar

DownloadExecutive Summary (PDF–1MB)Full Report (PDF–6MB)

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India has made encouraging progress in reducing its official poverty rate. But the nation has an opportunity to help more than half a billion people attain better living standards.

India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty rate, from 45 percent of the population in 1994 to 22 percent in 2012. This is an achievement to be celebrated—yet it also gives the nation an opportunity to set higher aspirations. While the official poverty line counts only those living in the most abject conditions, even a cursory scan of India’s human-development indicators suggests more widespread deprivation. Above and beyond the goal of eradicating extreme poverty, India can address these issues and create a new national vision for helping more than half a billion people attain a more economically empowered life.

 https://www.mckinsey.com/featu...verty-to-empowerment

The British kept India poor.  Now India is on its way to becoming a super power.  When that is achieved, it will be the first country to become a super power by virtue of pure brain power.

The Brits did not make or keep India poor.  Indian fell from riches after the spice trade was disrupted with the rise of Islam in the ME cutting of trading routes.  This, as you know, gave rise to the discovery of the new world.  Spice was the "oil" of that era and India controlled and dominated it.

India invited the Brits to stem the tide of the Islamic invasion.  They stayed on and began nation-building.  When the Brits left India, it was more developed than China.  But, I agree, the Brits did take their piece of the pie, no doubt.

The large bridge network in Calcutta was built by the Brits and still serve as an economic backbone today.  The massive water supply system in Bombay was built by the Brits and serve the city to this day.  I saw an impressive hydro plant in inner Maharastra, I was impressed with the engineering feat.  The Indians informed me it was built by the Brits in the 40's and India only upgraded the turbines.

Indian will rise but, is a very long way off from being a power like China.  It will take a lot more than technical brain power to make it happen.  They need political will and national consensus.  They are getting there, but very slow!

Eh ehhh..See wuh happen? Dem dam Islam peeps dem screwin with the spices

I would like to see Indian women concentrate on golf, field hockey, squash and some of these winter sports like Biathlon.  We are not a jump, skip and run people.

Ray posted:

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

I think you have some sort of inferiority complex

He writes pure shit. I think he does it for fun and to provoke a reaction. He can't be this stupid.

Iguana posted:

Ray posted:

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

I think you have some sort of inferiority complex

He writes pure shit. I think he does it for fun and to provoke a reaction. He can't be this stupid.

No, he can't. He got you responding to his pure shit.

skeldon_man posted:

Iguana posted:

Ray posted:

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

I think you have some sort of inferiority complex

He writes pure shit. I think he does it for fun and to provoke a reaction. He can't be this stupid.

No, he can't. He got you responding to his pure shit.

I am amused by his contradictions about himself.

Dave posted:

Django posted:

Dave posted:

When a country rises from proverty, it excel in all areas.

India is an example. 

Who says India was impoverished ?,banna read the history of your ancestors.

Not surprise you say so..

Report - McKinsey Global Institute - February 2014

India’s path from poverty to empowerment

By Rajat Gupta, Shirish Sankhe, Richard Dobbs, Jonathan Woetzel, Anu Madgavkar, and Ashwin Hasyagar

DownloadExecutive Summary (PDF–1MB)Full Report (PDF–6MB)

Article Actions

India has made encouraging progress in reducing its official poverty rate. But the nation has an opportunity to help more than half a billion people attain better living standards.

India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty rate, from 45 percent of the population in 1994 to 22 percent in 2012. This is an achievement to be celebrated—yet it also gives the nation an opportunity to set higher aspirations. While the official poverty line counts only those living in the most abject conditions, even a cursory scan of India’s human-development indicators suggests more widespread deprivation. Above and beyond the goal of eradicating extreme poverty, India can address these issues and create a new national vision for helping more than half a billion people attain a more economically empowered life.

 https://www.mckinsey.com/featu...verty-to-empowerment

My suggestion was reading the history of your ancestors,seems like in futility you pulled an 2014 article to bolster your claim of poverty.

Go back in ancient times then proceed to modern day,you will learn a thing or two.

Bear in mind i ain't bolstering any form of superiority.

skeldon_man posted:

Iguana posted:

Ray posted:

Prashad posted:

I don't want Indians to play into the stereotype that some whites have for persons of color "that they are only good for running, jumping and throwing a ball into a hoop. 

I think you have some sort of inferiority complex

He writes pure shit. I think he does it for fun and to provoke a reaction. He can't be this stupid.

No, he can't. He got you responding to his pure shit.

For you, it may be sh-t.  But for me, this world is about a battle between civilizations for long-term survival and this man Prashad here will never take on the interests of some other person's civilization in ensuring its long-term survival against the interests of his ancestors' civilization.  You can call it sh-t but in the end, no one will ever point a finger at Prashad and say he trampled on the identity of his ancestors.