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India is not so much a country as a group of tribes living in adjacent areas. It is a land of many languages, each of which indicates a tribe. They are not always friends. This is why it was partitioned into India and Pakistan when we left in 1947 and "only" a million or so died in the resulting kerfuffle.
They have talent and they have poverty. Building their own atom bomb took research as well as finance and political will. The same political will does not get applied to easing poverty or to getting a grip of the in depth, wide ranging, deep seated, enthusiastic corruption.
The poor are very poor. They always were. Kipling is clear on the point. The rich do not care in the slightest.
There are three indicators which hit records this week. Peasant suicides in Vidharbha went over 400. The Sensex share index crossed the 11,000 mark. And Lakme Fashion Week issued over 500 media passes to journalists. So the middle classes are doing all right. It is just the peasants. Nobody cares about them.
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Updated on Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:35:55