Today I bumped into forbes list of powerful women. lets see how far it can be accepted. It was claimed that their rankings are a combination of two scores: visibility -- by press mentions -- and the size of the organisation or country these women lead...
Indian women Ms. Kochar, Ms. Sonia and Ms. Nooyi feature in that list.. Ms. Nooyi is ranked far ahead of Ms. Sonia Gandhi. And then people like Hillary, Nancy Pelosi are ranked far below.
The visibility of a sovereign democratic republic India is far greater than that of Pepsi or Icici.. Still I don't understand the funda behind Forbes' rationale.
The size of the country too is enormous, being the 2nd most populous. Organisations like Pepsi or ICICI can never even dream of having 1 crore workers atleast..
Once I started thinking, For a moment, I was shocked... Are these lists believable / reliable ...........
Now its left to your individual judgement..............
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hi pk..,i am visiting u for 1st time.. my wishes for ur successful FC.. the articles u ve put in ur blog are fine and scholarly..iam also a IAS aspirant writing my mains this yr. ur guidelines for gs mains is really good....
and with respect to forbes list and their rationale behind putting corporate honchos ahead of sovereign heads.. is good food for thought.. but between the lines we miss a component in the rationale of forbes..that is the real powerful omni-potent heads stand to lose to people like nooyi..,yes pepsi, coke, mac, all are armed with license to imperialise the world with their product.. in the garb of neo liberalism....these corpns come to a country rich or poor, explore its market and potentials...and conquer it.. the irony is these companies utlise the peoples water resource and fizz it with some additives,then sell as COLA...., and people are made to forget the cheaper water..and fall for it as a substitute..and its no surprise for a capitalist magazine like forbes to laud them for their model of capitalist exploitation...
What both of you had to say is equally correct. Being a women myself, i consider this kind of attention (about anything that women does... being exaggerated) a trash.
Woman has come far enough, from what she had been doing or experiencing in her yester years... Earlier, she chose it out of compulsion (survival to fittest -- to be selfdependent). Now with several options around, she started choosing among them. So, what's all this fuss about ratings? Why is she being highlighted, hyped? (i mean, use any synonymous word..)
"India's first woman PM!
India's first woman President!
Recently, India's firt woman Speaker!
Not to forget, now like hot pakoras... "India's second woman Foreign Secretary!"
Fiddlesticks!
Woman choose her profession with the same clarity like a Man does. Only differce being, Earlier, she wasn't given a chance to prove her mettle and individuality. Not to mention, albeit to prove this to herself. She feels better like any hunmanbeing once she measures her calibre.
But what has Forbes to do with that? Is it advertising its already established brand name through woman, particularly targetting INDIAN WOMAN.
Nowz, by rating woman among woman ...wonder what's MEDIA upto. That's what it always does "HIGHLIGHT" and "EXAGGRATE" unnecessary things.
As i read the first comment, I could recollect this book by Shashi Tharoor - The Riot. In this book he has a few lines to talk about COLA entering into INDIA.
He actually picturises the way COLA struggled to make its grand presence known. I can't help myself when i've to say, "what an establishment!" It swept us through the scorching summers where lemon or coconut water (symbols of health drinks and proudly famous among Indians for keeping us COOL from within, aswell) was a trademark chillers, otherwise.
And, whatz more with such sizzling and sensational stars leading the advertisements, doing juuust a bit to tempt us.
I remember my guy friend confiding," I am so swept by the charm that Sonali has got (which i too agreed) that as a kid i drank N number of Lime n Lemoni Limca".
I was glad for his sensibility for not getting into the spree after hez grownup a lad! (Jokes apart).
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