It had to come one day. Silk Saree. Silicone Milk. Herbal Supplement. Now a tablet. All from China, to make India stronger, more intelligent, more competitive. Well Aakash is the limit.
I call it the Tiger Tablet. If you're thinking it is a tablet made with Royal Bengal Tiger body parts, you're mistaken. It is an Android 4.0 or ICS 7 inch tablet computer being approved by IIT Bombay for widescale distribution by the Education Minister to all kids in schools and colleges at a subsidized price. There is a supposition in the public that it is designed by a Sardarji and made by brainy engineers in Hyderabad.
But just now I read an Economic Times report that it is being imported for $42.- from China and Made in India stickers are added before distribution.
That is not a bad thing if every kid gets to play some video games and also learn some stuff on a tablet, right? You may be right. I am right now typing on an American Tablet made in China called the iPad.
Indian children need schools, books, teachers, Akshaya Patra lunches, and the hope that they will get jobs when they grow up. Then they need the killer instinct of a tiger to compete globally and succeed. If they do wield tablets in the meanwhile, why not?
There was a time when every stern father told his kid to drink Horlicks, made in England. Now it is Tiger biscuits, Tiger tablets, and so on. Well, sky (=Aakash) is the limit for a doting nation, to bring up our kids!
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