Yes Dr Deep, I often talk about Punjab and Bengal in same breath. Check my posts here or DFI. Both states were forefront in Indian Armed revolution, both states bore maximum partition brunt, both states started good and both states got choked by own hubris. Strange isnt it. Bengal may still rise because of resources, coastline. Punjab to rise it has only own people's entrepreneurial and hard working spirit(now litreally lost or moved on) to rely on.
People dont realize big names like Hero, DCM, OSWAL,Mahindra, Swaraj, Sonalika Escorts,Oberai, FabIndia etc have their or their founder roots in Punjab.
It sucks that Pakistan succeeded in dudding Punjab engine of growth.
IT industry actually approached for setting up in early years - but politicos of that era were only interested in manufacturing industry did not teally understand IT.
This can happen to any state if they dont check regionalism or bigotry or politics. Let other states learn from our failure and they dont repeat same mistakes so that they can enjoy growth and continue india growth story.
in Punjab. US has been diabolical. Remember Cray X were denied to us during that era. Until CDAc developed Param - they were not offered to us. US played running with hares and hound games. Remember that era all tango activities in India were not recognized by US camp and were termed Indian law and order problem regularly. That was the time when they armed Pak to teeth and singing Kumbaya with China in big way. So do you think they would doling out on India when we were still with Soviet union
