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The Myth of the New India
theodp writes "An NYT op-ed on The Myth of the New India reports that only 1.3M Indians are participating in the so-called new economy of BPO, leaving 400M have-nots without a piece of the pie. Despite recent gains, nearly 380M Indians still live on less $1 a day, setting the stage for rural and urban conflict." From the article: "No labor-intensive manufacturing boom of the kind that powered the economic growth of almost every developed and developing country in the world has yet occurred in India. Unlike China, India still imports more than it exports. This means that as 70 million more people enter the work force in the next five years, most of them without the skills required for the new economy, unemployment and inequality could provoke even more social instability than they have already."
I consider the New York Times to be a European embassy on US soil. They're just some sort of ugly bastion, as far as I'm concerned. They're a very ethnically partisan newspaper. The Gray Lady is really looking dour and gray these days. When blogging first emerged as an alternative to traditional media, I saw the NYT issuing rapidfire articles aimed at discrediting blogging. They gave up on that tack when they saw how useless it was. I've never seen them write a positive article on India. If you literally do a search of NYT articles on India or any Indian, every one of them is negative. Likewise, I've never seen them write a single positive thing about Russians. It's like NYT is trying to re-launch old European imperial campaigns in the guise of liberalism. I don't accept ethnically partisan liberalism at all, and whenever I see NYT spin happening, it always telegraphs its ethnic biases.
We saved you in World War II, so go to hell! If it weren't for us, you'd all be speaking German now!
Actually the russians saved europe from having speaking german now. The US/Britian just made it so a larger portion of europe dont' have to learn russian. You may want to look back and see how little the US actually did in either world war in the european theatre. Now the pacific theatre, that was all the Americans.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
To be fair, here are some facts that you appear to have overlooked:
... not once has it had a militaristic regime or religious zealots threatening to take over the country. India has also never invaded another country.
Uh huh... are you forgetting about when the BJP came to power, backed by Shiv Sena? If not religious zealots, then what? And, up until that point (and discounting Deve Gowda), Congress I was the only party to rule. As for invasions, what of Bangladesh (East Pakistan), Sikkim, Sri Lanka (ask Rajiv about that one). Seems a little skewed.
3. India has the second largest Islamic population in the world after Indonesia. All living harmoniously. The insurgency in Kashmir is primarily brought on by cross-border infiltration of mis-guided, Pakistani trained, mujahideen - same variety as Al Qaeda. And hey, India has had its people slaughtered since 1989 with the West continuing to ignore "state sponsopred terrorism".
True, but are you forgetting about Ayodhya? Maybe that issue belongs in the religious zealot category, but it does spawn muslim hatred towards hindus...and perhaps adds a little salt to the Kashmir fire (not directly related, but the wounds don't heal). Yes, Pakistan is far from innocent in this matter.
Stop drinking your own bathwater.
What the fuck are you talking about?
... not so much.
Generally, when the phrase 'American Revolution' is bantered about - it is in reference to the Declaration of Independence - when young America became its own country with its own government at a cost in many lives when breaking away from England. It was a completely new approach to how a country was run, designed by a group of men that put the people of the country first and designed to keep the people free.
It has nothing to do with India, Iraq, or anything happeneding today.
The day India writes a new government declaring all people born equal (not this silly caste shit) and every person is allowed or even encouraged to own guns, and all 400M of the ones living on a dollar a day have the opportunity to pull themselves up and make something of themselves - then THAT will be the beginning of the 'Century of India.' 1.4M gooks making $20k a year, blowing it on a Blackberry and some cocaine instead of investing it in the future of the country
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
It's really a point of view case, isn't it. One could argue that Sikkim "joined" (or was annexed into) India based on a case of "Finlandization". Although India entered Sri Lanka with the blessing of the Sinhala government, it overstayed its welcome.
And what of Azad Kashmir?