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0 pointssremani10y ago0 comments

I love the Ghosts of East India Company are always invoked when a foreign company enters India with heft, this was said of Coke, Pepsi and now when referring to Facebook Basics and Amazon. Of course, the stone walling of Foreign Retailers like Walmart. Anybody who talks about EIC is a protectionist trying to play on Colonial insecurities.

Having grown up in Socialist India, the demagogue who summons East India Company talk scares me more than East India Company itself.

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kamaal10y ago

People who opposed coke were a minority, who weren't taken seriously by their own political representatives.

Slow adoption of technology had more to do with fear of automation and job losses, than anything.

splintercell10y ago

> People who opposed coke were a minority, who weren't taken seriously by their own political representatives. <

Well then why Coca Cola and IBM were forced to leave the country? George Fernandes was Union minister when he ordered them to leave India. I don't think you can get any more high profile than that.

kamaal10y ago

I don't know where you are getting your information from. I can still buy Pepsi and Coca Cola in India. And I have friends who work for IBM.

Coca Cola has been in bad news for other reasons. If you sell a pesticide poisoned drink, you must expect to be held accountable by the law someday.

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0 pointssremani10y ago0 comments

Having grown up in Socialist India, the demagogue who summons East India Company talk scares me more than East India Company itself.

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kamaal10y ago

People who opposed coke were a minority, who weren't taken seriously by their own political representatives.

Slow adoption of technology had more to do with fear of automation and job losses, than anything.

splintercell10y ago

> People who opposed coke were a minority, who weren't taken seriously by their own political representatives. <

Well then why Coca Cola and IBM were forced to leave the country? George Fernandes was Union minister when he ordered them to leave India. I don't think you can get any more high profile than that.

kamaal10y ago

I don't know where you are getting your information from. I can still buy Pepsi and Coca Cola in India. And I have friends who work for IBM.

Coca Cola has been in bad news for other reasons. If you sell a pesticide poisoned drink, you must expect to be held accountable by the law someday.

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