Nilgiri
INT'L MOD
- Aug 4, 2015
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So far, the lady (Ms. Riva Ganguly Das, former High commissioner to BD)
is kind of rehashing the people-people thing I did previously:
At least I was reminded of it.
Doing the top down "official only" thing is not proper way to handle relations....as you are sampling in very limited way and doing knee jerk coin flips for immensely larger entities that you are excluding from the picture.
It is dereliction of fiduciary authority. Authority always has to be humble to where it has come from and is accountable to.
is kind of rehashing the people-people thing I did previously:
Regd the 90% sentiments (that dont have such time surplus for the online realm), it is very early days to crunch qualitative numbers there.....i.e their activities and impressions under a political blanket (how much they know/care and put aside or dont put aside regd that w.r.t larger overall impression of a country/people etc)..
This survey for example (given pre covid, visits from BD citizens to India was around 1.9 million per year and will rebound to that level and surpass it soon:
https://tourism.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020-04/Final%20Report%20on%20Visit%20of%20Nationals%20of%20Bangladesh%20to%20India.pdf
It was interesting to note the overall rating of facilities, host population attitude among the 3 or so sample strata (benapole, maitree rail, dum dum airport combinations etc).
It gave larger sense than say cpl instagram groups I have been following w.r.t say Dr. Shetty hospital in BLR and Bangladesh medical tourists, which again would be skewed very differently to say social media "english conversant 10% vs 10%" groupings...given basic context of the "why"/needs governing the interactions.
I also have followed from time various travel blogs/vlogs both directions too to get a sense of the person-person interactions and their perceptions/reactions etc as they travel in respective otherside host populations. Where frictions arise inevitably, but general positive sense prevails when witness to 90% bulk population that are getting through day to day life with the interesting local curiosities and geniality both ways.
At least I was reminded of it.
Doing the top down "official only" thing is not proper way to handle relations....as you are sampling in very limited way and doing knee jerk coin flips for immensely larger entities that you are excluding from the picture.
It is dereliction of fiduciary authority. Authority always has to be humble to where it has come from and is accountable to.