December 26, 2008
“The percentage of the population below the official poverty line in India, has come down from 36% in 1993-94 to 28% in 2004-05″ - Planning Commission, Government of India.
The recent Hindustan Times summit made for interesting viewing. Some of the most renowned intellectuals and leaders of the world were at hand to witness and approve of India’s growth, to be one of the most powerful nations on the planet in the coming years; a natural contender to be on the permanent list of the United Nations Security Council. Summits like these are interesting as they bring forth a wide range of ideas just as our blogs do.
That we, the people of India, have propelled ourselves to be in the cognizance of the world’s eye in such a short period of time of sixty-one years, is indeed a glowing tribute to our industriousness. And yet, although we have the nuclear bomb, a thriving IT and ITES industry that’s recognized around the world and have recently also sent a probe to the moon, becoming only the sixth country in the world to individually do so, it is indeed shocking how the manipulation of facts can give the viewer a different picture from what actually is.
India is Shining, or is it? The fact may be
“The percentage of the population below the official poverty line in India, has come down from 36% in 1993-94 to 28% in 2004-05″ - Planning Commission, Government of India.
The recent Hindustan Times summit made for interesting viewing. Some of the most renowned intellectuals and leaders of the world were at hand to witness and approve of India’s growth, to be one of the most powerful nations on the planet in the coming years; a natural contender to be on the permanent list of the United Nations Security Council. Summits like these are interesting as they bring forth a wide range of ideas just as our blogs do.
That we, the people of India, have propelled ourselves to be in the cognizance of the world’s eye in such a short period of time of sixty-one years, is indeed a glowing tribute to our industriousness. And yet, although we have the nuclear bomb, a thriving IT and ITES industry that’s recognized around the world and have recently also sent a probe to the moon, becoming only the sixth country in the world to individually do so, it is indeed shocking how the manipulation of facts can give the viewer a different picture from what actually is.
India is Shining, or is it? The fact may be
