Chinese attack of different kind

Ahmedabad, 17 October 2014

We are always offended by China’s attack on our borders, but hardly care about economic advent of China.

The latest attack is through oil lamp of diya.

Ahead of the festival of Diwali on which each Hindu Gujarati keeps oil lamp(in Gujarati: Kodiya) outside his house during the evenings for five days, the markets are flooded by Chinese lamps.

Not only Chinese diya, but there has been huge stock of Malaysian and Thai diyas arrived in the markets.

Contrary to common Indian diya made by our poor potters, Chinese diya offer not just light but also smell due to embedded fragrance material.

They are available in different flavors like Rose, Jasmin, Orchid etc. Not just this, but they are available in different shapes featuring animals and auspicious signs.

This innovation and design part is missed in India, and therefore for 100s of years we see same types of products without any attempt of betterment. Then traders import something new from abroad, people are lured to buy, and economists cry trade deficit at the end of the year. So, from people’s responsibility to protect local manufacturers to local manufacturer’s responsibility to offer innovated and new products to NID’s responsibility to facilitate such innovations to government’s responsibility to facilitate overall Eco-system, everything is well connected.

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