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The wonders of Dubai like the Burj Khalifa and other buildings and hotels are being built by foreign workers who work 12 hours a day and live in squalor. The living conditions are pathetic. Hundreds die every year. Basically, it is modern day slavery in another way.
Many women from outside India – specially developed world – are “renting wombs” of Indian women [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/2013128122419799224.html] to have their babies. > In a study [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09649069.2012.750478] recently published in Journal of Social Welfare and
China (197 million tonnes), India (131 Mt), and Indonesia (64 Mt) are the three largest Rice producers in the world. China had the highest productivity for rice farming and can produce 6.59 tonnes per hectare. Rice is the mainstay for India’s agriculture. But despite the “Green Revolution” and
Here is an incredible story of a Professor in Mumbai who begs on local trains so he can collect money to set up schools for underprivileged kids in slums for English Medium education, that can change their lot. The 52-year-old Professor Sandeep Desai is quite a hero for the kids
Mountains of grain have turned black with mildew after getting soaked in the rain (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)The World Bank knows [http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/04/20/000333037_20110420235516/Rendered/PDF/612750v10ESW0P1rt0Volume0I01PUBLIC1.pdf] . The Indian Supreme Court knows [http://www.righttofoodindia.org/data/
The Very PoorIndia is situation is interesting and plight incomparable. Here are three stats that portray India’s dichotomy: 1. Three Indian states – Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal – have a combined population of 421 million of “poor” people using the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which measures a range of
Amidst the cool confidence of the Indian professionals and businesses, India’s economy and outlook seems to have taken a nosedive. By most signs, India Shinning is become India Suffering! In November, a Firstpost article [http://www.firstpost.com/economy/is-manmohan-taking-us-back-to-the-1991-external-mess-134121.html] had asked the question “Is Manmohan taking us
Rajasthani Women LabourersYesterday, the world observed International Women’s Day. Women are facing many issues over the world, specially in countries like India. The issues that a working woman faces in the urban places is quite a bit, but the issues that the rural or slum mothers face often puts
Tushar Vashisht and Mathew CherianTwo guys, Tushar Vashisht and Mathew Cherian – one an Investment Banker who studied at University of Pennsylvania and other from MIT – came to India to work at the UID project. Recently, there was a big debate (see Sushma Swaraj’s speech in the Indian Parliament below)
India is set to pass China’s population by 2020 (India’s population hurtling toward the top [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-billion-20111203,0,211651.story] ). What does that mean for India? Specially when the sex ratio is going in the wrong direction. First of all, let us
In this year’s (2011) Economic budget, the UPA Government has allocated Rs 40,100 crore for the Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) program, in addition to the Rs.64000 crore sought by the Ministry of Rural Development for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Washington-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) recently published a report titled ‘The Drivers and Dynamics of Illicit Financial Flows from India: 1948-2008’, according to which India has lost India lost a total of $213 billion in illicit financial flows. The Present Value of these flows in today’s dollars would be
Displacing farmers out of their farmland is the neo-liberal economic growth model – prescribed by World-Bank so that India can throw away its agrarian economy and embrace the new world order. The govt already have established its control over water, forests, seeds, agriculture markets – and now it wants to take away
Poverty is the worst state many imagine, but what can be worse than Poverty? When devastation and helplessness has reached levels of unbearability (word?) then one probably may think that steady life of poverty is probably better than devastated life in misery. Mankind lives in psychologies of people. The existence
There has been a lot of hype around Slumdog Millionaire.. the Oscar, the poverty, the hunger and the rags to riches story. Now, while the poverty that the movie shows is very real.. the way out for the millions of “slumdogs” is not as easy as it has been shown.
PBS-TV recently carried two programs (can watch one online [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darfur/]) reporting how the govt of Sudan is sponsoring horrific ethnic killings and rape-as-warfare in its Darfur region, shielded primarily from international sanctions by the Chinese government. China buys oil from Sudan in exchange
Kalahandi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahandi] in Orissa is one of the poorest districts and where people regularly face starvation – which the Government vehemently denies! The truth is that the food hardly reaches the starving and hungry. But even that knowledge does not provide the utter unhuman behavior of
I got this mail from a fellow-IRMAn. It again shows the extreme lack of humanity in us Indians. There are times when we feel bad – but then there are times when we feel utterly shameful of our identity. This is one of that moment after I read through this mail.
What are people in India upto.. Biharis have mastered the art of being the evil-most minds available on earth.. and those in Bengal are masters are dumb mind-sets! Despite giving two Nobel Prize winners and potentially many others.. that is a state that is a mess. Bihar is even further
Everyone has heard about the Grameen Bank – which is run through the poor Bangladeshi villagers. But this bank [http://specials.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/13bank1.htm] (Children’s Development Bank) is unique – it is by the kids, for the kids, of the kids!! Kids, who are ragpickers or doing
This is an interesting interview with Dr. Kurien [http://www.tehelka.com/story_main31.asp?filename=Bu300607punditspeak_11.asp] sent by a friend from IRMA. Despite the fact that I consider him as a megalomaniac, his views (and work) are profound! I think the dinstinction between SEZ and Cooperatives with
Two things: First, it is not just the Pakistani "peacekeepers" who got the Gold, even the Western "peacekeepers" did that! And Second, while Pakis were trading arms for Gold, the Western folks were trading some pittance in food for Gold.. and also for sex. Someone in my family was there
See this. My sister, Anu, sent this to me. I think it really does shake you up. The photographer committed suicide later. Powered by Qumana [http://www.qumana.com/]
When I said in my last post about my heart being a “capitalist” heart.. I know many people felt [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/01/the_two_indias.html#comment-135462] my heart was in the wrong place.. for.. capitalist system in the US has messed up this country… so
Indian society is developing at a fast pace.. but the poverty is not coming down much. The people and activists are becoming impatient and want faster action from the Government. I had suggested in my last post [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/?q=node/3678] on Poverty Solution for
I have believed that the Indian Middle Class is a major force in the world – it has virtually, against all odds, created the Tech Miracle in our country through sheer force and grit of the values steeped in education. They have their kids sent to Kota for IIT preparation, or
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