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[Must Read] Lee Kuan Yew's views on India and China

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lywyre
lywyre Original post #1
Mar 24, 2015 at 10:45 AM
The average Indian civil servant still sees himself primarily as a regulator and not as a facilitator. The average Indian bureaucrat has not yet accepted that it is not a sin to make profits and become rich. The average Indian bureaucrat has little trust in India’s business community. They view Indian businesspeople as money-grabbing opportunists who do not have the welfare of the country at heart, and all the more so if they are foreign.

Nobody could have said it better. Read more: Lee was disappointed with India - The Hindu