India Shining!!!
My writing is in response to the following article by an ex-Pakistani general. In his sharp article, published in The Daily Star newspaper of Bangladesh, he tried to put some weird logic to show the backlogs of Indian growth picture. He pointed out the growth disparity, the overpriced market and Hindu-domination in Indian success as main Indian drawbacks. You can read this article here.
My response :
I am an Indian Bengali and read The Daily Star regularly on the internet. It is a delightful experience for me to read a newspaper from our neighboring democratic country. I am specifically interested on the analytical articles published in your newspaper. These are really great works from the people around the world.
On December 8, 2005, I came across an article by Ikram Sehgal, on the backlogs of shining
Firstly, he points out that an amazing figure of 700 million below poverty line population and also went on to say that
Next, he mentions that a person having income as high as 45000 a month cannot afford a flat in a passable location. I do not understand how he distinguishes between a passable and a non-passable location, but inside Kolkata or Hyderabad ( where I stay ), there are many “passable” locations where people are buying flats at 1 million Indian Rs, and that too with incomes as low as 15000 a month. This has triggered a boom in housing construction in
At the end, he mentioned that non-Hindus do not have their representation in Indian rich class. I would like to mention, that the richest Indian citizen, Azim Premji, the owner of Wipro, is a Muslim. He is the richest South Asian as well. Had he been discriminated against his counterparts, like Narayan Murthy of Infosys or Tatas of TCS, he would not have reached the place where he is today.
The author possibly overlooked the biggest success of
It is definitely true that Indian growth is marked by disparity. The growth of city and villages are not the same, nor is the growth comparable between South Indian and the
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