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Created by : Muhammed Arif, Production Engineer, Bahrain Prism Glass Factory  | 04 24 2011 07:21:08 +0000
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In a lighter vein, let me tell you a story. It seems the US president wants to have frogs from India in his lunch and they arrived in a box. The president was surprised to find that the box has no lid and the frogs are intact, hale and healthy. The Indian Ambassodor explained "they are from India sir, if one wants to climb up, four others will pull it down and hence no lid is required". We are intelligent but unfortunately dont allow others to grow - other than our kith and kin.
By Suryanarayan Murthy, Asst Vice President (Corporate Finance), A Hydro Power Project  04 27 2011 06:41:00 +0000
 
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Perhaps your experience differ from that of mine. Please elaborate on what do you exactly mean. Why do you call us "Frog in the well"?
By Swapna Das, Assistant Professor, Govt. college  04 26 2011 10:23:57 +0000
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Well no critics neither i discourage your comment i rather highly aprreciate...I am proud to be Indian but the reality is little different, coz we are no more a nation we are rather United and different states of India...So the frog and well are hand in glove.
By Shibu , BDM, International Business developement  | 04 29 2011 06:32:39 +0000
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No we have changed about the line remains little same ...WEW ARE THE SAME INDIANS STILL LIKE THE WELL IN THE FROG
By Shibu , BDM, International Business developement  | 04 28 2011 06:05:52 +0000
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India was secluded and isolated for 50 years and that has got to do a lot with the 'metaphysical' culture evolved in time. Moreover our leaders don't seem to set an objective or direction for the nation which make it all the more difficult for citizen to cling to 'scientific' processes in their daily life which make them look all disentagled and different in views in everything they do and say. We cannot call it the frog in the well problem rather confused and intimidated by lack of leadership.
By Mathew Cherian, Research Associate/Analyst, Western Michigan University  | 04 27 2011 18:49:31 +0000
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Sorry ,,,if i hurt anybody.. i am Indian working in GCC in an arabic Company under Indian management along with natinals from so many countries ,,,,,The attitude which Indians posses against them forced me Think So ...Nothing Else
By Muhammed Arif, Production Engineer, Bahrain Prism Glass Factory  | 04 27 2011 05:32:16 +0000
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May be we are like the frog in the well.

 But nowadays made up our mind to come out of the well to accept the challenges which are there , outside the well.

Thanks for referral, Swapna. 


By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 04 26 2011 10:52:06 +0000
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TATA indicom ad says we Indians are like "frog in the well" would not want to come out in fear of roaming charges!  We Indians know what "contentment" is all about and would like to stay well within our confines!


By S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner  | 04 24 2011 13:43:27 +0000
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I would say YES, As my experiences from Indians abroad are like that...
By Muhammed Arif, Production Engineer, Bahrain Prism Glass Factory  | 04 24 2011 07:21:08 +0000
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I agree with you question in this regards.


By PRANJAL SARMA, SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER (MECHANICAL), ONGC  | 08 06 2011 13:20:26 +0000
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Not any more. Things have changed. It requires time to change the mindset. By nature many are still conservative in thinking.
By Ramesh shirolkar, Academic Incharge,, Edutech Nttf India pvt ltd  | 05 08 2011 12:47:26 +0000
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 A FROG THROWN INTO BOILING WATER WILL JUMP OUT. BUT, IF THE FROG IS PLACED IN COLD WATER THAT IS SLOWLY HEATED,IT WILL STAY IN THE WATER UNTIL IT DIES. SOME OF US ARE SO UNAWARE OF THE CHANGES IN OUR SURROUNDINGS THAT WE ARE GRADUALLY BECOMING BOILED FROGS


By sudhakar , BUSINESS CONSULTANT  | 05 02 2011 13:16:17 +0000
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We have super technological knowledge,education and other things which are not reached to any where but we are either not use them or avoided from it.We are children of Arya Bhat,Varah Mihir and Charak who proved our ability.At present back ground inspiration is totally lost.
By LAXMAN KESHWALA, Freelancer, Telecom/ISP  | 04 29 2011 23:01:51 +0000
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I can not understand this frogs and well.Well the proverb said in the meaning of that the well frogs think the world is that much as the well.In this coneection we are united by the nation only eventhough we are of different races, languages , culture.We are the half of the world by area or by population.If you think if you travelled to other nation only you are frogs of land means it can not acceptable.I worked in ANDHRA,KERALA, BANGALORE,DUBAI.That much jump enough for me.If you need you can jump to USA, UK, AUSTRALIA.Switzerland ,the noble country ,is having corrupted money,which was sent from all over the world,not only indian Rs,but also american diooars , German Marks are there as deposits.Is this frogs frrom land have todo.

Mohemmed says he has seen some indians who are against other Nationals on some definition.There is a remark on us Indian engineers are inferior to US or German engineers.We broke the record , we entered  the Middle east as labours only. They treated like that.After along fight, after our construction at IRAQ(Sadam had not allowed British or US companies to his country),Now we, our companies got respect.You know very well, Every Rice has  aname on it,Nobody can Stop this as GOD write what you to get.

Last year Nobel prize winner for PHYSICS ,is from Tamilnadu , his basic studies at chidambaram, If an environment requires all will move, there is No doubt.PEPSI and COCOCOLA are earning nearly our years budget from this POOR country AND sponsoring for more than 10000 crores every year for cricket shows (Which are our money).IF INDIA fails ,The world FAILED.

I hope you may understand we wre not frogs in well. We have enough land to live, we have enough land to earn,WEE have enouh Knowledge.

Dont think only appritiated by US, UK you are fit.You are 100% better than them.


By pandianarjunan , project manager  | 04 29 2011 13:14:11 +0000
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Quite rightly so. What exactly the meaning on knowing it will be easy to answer.


By Rathin Deb, Freelance Retail Consultant  | 04 28 2011 07:23:03 +0000
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I don't think it is fair to say so based on your experience with just one company and that too outside India.  On the other hand, I feel that Indian society is one of the most cooperative and mutually helpful societies.  Ours is a very open and sharing culture.  Just to quote a few things from our scriptures:

"Sarve Janaa Sukhino Bhavantu" which means "let all the people be happy"

"Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" which means "the whole world is a family"

These two quotes indicate that people in India are concerned about others living around.


By Kalyana Krishna, AUT, Human Resources, ITC Limited  | 04 27 2011 10:26:04 +0000
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Its true.We traded with ancient romans.We conquered sumatra,JAVA islands(Japan,combodia,korea).We found the earth is not round, its oval shaped(ANDAM).May be the TATAS are Frogs. We found the first University NALANDA.We travelled world wide.Ramanujam ,CVRaman,kalpana,viswanath ,Visweswaraiah,VIVEKANANDA, Dont tell INDIANS.THERE are frogs in all countries.In 70 years freedom we are higher than 400 years of freedom nation USA.We have 120 crore population If all Frogs are ready to travel which  white land will receive.Mr.Mohamed says he seen a lot of Indian frogs.I too seen a lot of American , British frogs.


By pandianarjunan , project manager  | 04 27 2011 05:27:17 +0000
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Why do we degrade ourselves? Some say are we cheap? Other says are we useless? I totally disagree with anybody degrading India or Indians. Yes we have our own problems. Handling 120 Crore people is not a joke !
By Suryanarayan Murthy, Asst Vice President (Corporate Finance), A Hydro Power Project  | 04 27 2011 05:10:21 +0000
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we are provided with the latest technologies adopted all around the world, our economy is among the fastest growing in the world etc. etc.we indians are completed updated same like any other developing or developed nation.
By Rohit Thakur, Electrical Engineer-Industrial, Quality Engineering and Software Technologies  | 04 26 2011 16:49:39 +0000
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why this topic did the questioner had gathered relevant information for calling Indians frogs in the well.  Einstein said that we should be thankful to the indian for the numbers without which the world would not have known counting.


By kanukurthy sudershanrao, Operations Manager, Andhra Bank  | 04 26 2011 14:31:11 +0000
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It is a general proverb but you should specify in what reference you are referring or comparing we Indians with the others. This is a useless comparison with out any subject knowledge.I think such debaters are in confused state of mind.
By ketan natubhai vakil, M.D., Aatham Polyester.  | 04 26 2011 13:52:09 +0000
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i dont think so as far as the indian concerned, we were ever frog in the well. We always talked about science. Even the Developed countries are taking the advantage of our old ancient literature to prove them. and it is true that we are not able to understand this now. but this is not coz of us. this is because of changing in our education system by lord mackley who opened english medium school every place. The education was just to produce a form who are not indian and not british. We forget what written in our ancient books. i studied vedic math and found that with the help of that many hard and long calculation are very easy. The whole electronics is based on number zero that is given by us. this is only the highlights there are numerous things that you will know if you will discuss or if you will search the net. We have to change our education system as it was in the ancient days and we will automatically develop new thing.


By Nitin Mehra, Software Developer, ROBOMAN MICROSYSTEMS  | 04 26 2011 12:49:54 +0000
 
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