Scientists find shaking hands invites transfer of germs There are far contagious transmissions from handshakes.With an American we get the ills of capitalism, the Russian passes on communism, the Latinos give us raw socialism and the Chinese pass on cheap imports that skews the balance of payments and erodes our industries. Of course they in return, get from us most of Silicon Valley start ups at the one end and almost all the Nurses on the other. But In politics ,as shaking hands necessarily involves ones arms, we unsurprisingly end up with greater exchange of fire power soon after. India and Pak ;Palestine and Israel et al ,will vouch for that.
The best way to greet would of course be with the folding palms in a Namaste . It unambiguously signals an isolationist stance like we managed to convey in the recent WTO .This may come handy in future too.But a mere Namaste can not enable copious inflows of FDI as perhaps a handshake would, even if we were to raise participation limits from 26 % to whatever figure that captures the fancy of the government's of the day.
Pub Economic Times Aug 1
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