{"id":178,"date":"2007-09-09T20:15:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T02:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/indians-are-privately-smart-and-publicly-dumb\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T02:15:02","slug":"indians-are-privately-smart-and-publicly-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/indians-are-privately-smart-and-publicly-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians Are Privately Smart and Publicly Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading the review of V. Raghunathan&#8217;s book titled, <em>Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are<\/em>.<br \/>\nIn his book, Raghunathan, a former professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, uses game theory &#8212; a branch of mathematics &#8212; and related concepts such as the prisoner&#8217;s dilemma to explore why Indians so often tend to focus on winning immediate gains at the cost of long-term benefits. He further goes on and theorizes that Indians are privately smart and publicly dumb. He also mentions that Indian&#8217;s ability to understand the need for cooperation is very low. Indians believe that cooperation and selfishness cannot go together.<br \/>\nKnowledge@Wharton is carrying an <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/india\/article.cfm?articleid=4222\">interview<\/a> with the author. It is a pretty good read.<br \/>\nI was dumbfounded initially, but I would second a lot of the &#8220;findings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading the review of V. Raghunathan&#8217;s book titled, Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are. In his book, Raghunathan, a former professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, uses game theory &#8212; a branch of mathematics &#8212; and related concepts such as the prisoner&#8217;s dilemma to explore why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}