South Asia Travel Reporting Pleasing
Last night NHK presented a travel report of a Japanese female artist from southern China to Pakistan through the Straits of Malacca, Chennai, Bangalore, and Mumbai, then finally to Lahore.
At the Straits of Malacca, she was on board a cargo ship which was equipped with a radar system to identify other vessel using an ID number. Every authorized ship hit by radar returns its unique ID number onto the radar screen of the inquiring ship.
She asked a captain what if no ID number is returned. The captain answered that he would take distance, as much as possible, from the suspicious ship in the straits well known for heavy traffics and persistent piracy.
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At Infosys Technologies, an IT giant with tens of thousands of workers in its modern premises surrounded by, and insulated from, a real third world environment, in Bangalore, she interviewed a project manager, working on a project related to Japan, who was born and raised in a local village but is now shaping career in Infosys, a company that is now even threatening employees in U.S. IBM.
He said that when he had been employed by Infosys his dream had been to own a car and a house; but now he has a surprise that all these have come true so soon, working in the company.
His dream now is to make himself globally acknowledged as an excellent IT professional.
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Near Mumbai, each time a car she and her crew hired passed a state border, they had to pay passenger tax which was not cheap at all. In India, each state differs in language and law as well as a tax system.
Their interpreter said in Japanese that India was a big country; you had to live here at least for a year or two to understand something about India. The Japanese female artist looked interested and convinced.
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Before heading for Pakistan, she joined together with an author, who was also traveling in parallel taking a different route; and the two agreed that people and situations in Indochina and India showed bottomless problems and fathomless disparity as well as unexhausted human energy.
In Lahore, she checked a street to talk to people. A shop owner, as if with a sort of hidden resentment to a Japanese crew, said that the watches sold at his shop were all made in China and Japanese watches were a little too expensive for ordinary people.
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India is a land of wonder for me, too.
1) How did Aryans get dark skins after their invasion upon the Indian subcontinent since 1300 B.C.?
2) Was Buddha an Aryan, such as contemporary Iranians, or an East Asian, such as Chinese and Japanese?
3) Was the Indus Civilization, extinct around 1500 B.C., was truly built by Dravidians?
4) Was there any more profound relationship than conceived so far between the Indus Civilization and the Mesopotamia Civilization?
(You should keep in mind that Abraham left Ur, a major city of the last Sumerian kingdom in Mesopotamia, decades after Sumerians disappeared from the mainstream history around 2000 B.C., though historians and religion scholars today stick to an idea that Abraham had nothing to do with Sumerians.)
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Recently the Arab TV station Al Jazeera, in Qatar, established an English broadcasting division with 400 staff members which are almost two times more than in the BBC's international division.
(Also refer to http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/89E8B42C-6E8C-4D07-A534-4BB0FB9A7BCB.htm, for your investment.)
You may find a chance in future to improve your career in India or Indochina, if you are interested in this field as well as IT, since they may hire 4,000 staff members in an organization for international publicity.
(But, please do not forget to check this kind of Reports globally issued from Japan, though, in this sanctuary-like country, silence is really believed to be golden and eloquence is silver.)
"...WHEATHER WE ARE ALIVE OR DEAD WHEN HE COMES."