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India falls to 88th spot on World Prosperity Index

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While there is much hullabaloo about rising India and its stupendous economic growth, the facts display picture of India. A recent report on the World Hunger Index described Bharat as the hungriest country in South Asia. With 75% of the population living under $2 per day and 50% living under $1 per day, Bharat has little to boast about. The Bharati poverty line is about Rs. 15 per day.

450 million Dalits, Scheduled class and Tribal Untouchable and make up the penury stricken Bharatis who live below Sub-Saharan poverty.

Bharat is one of the largest recipients of Foreign aid. It the biggest recipient of foreign aid from the UK. Bharat’;s biggest aid donor is Japan. As one of the biggest debtor nations on the planet, its debts is estimated between $250 billion to $3 Trillion (public and private debt).

A big fall

India has slipped 10 places to the 88th spot, way below neighbouring China, in the World Prosperity Index due to poor healthcare and education systems coupled with weak entrepreneurial infrastructure.

While last year, India stood at 78th position, according to London-based Legatum Institute that compiled the index. http://sify.com/finance/India-and-the-world-s-most-prosperous-nations-imagegallery-others-klbnzgjcbjj.html

The dirty hand of Freedom House is also present in this index.

India falls to 88th spot on World Prosperity Index

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The perfect storm gathering over India

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So, Shashi Tharoor has gone. Lalit Modi may follow. Or not.

Cricket’s great jamboree may be cleaned up. Or not.

Does it matter so much?

The Indian Premier League (IPL) brouhaha could not have come at a worse time. India was, finally, if reluctantly, starting to focus on long-festering-but-urgent issues that prevent this country from being a just, equitable democracy.

As Tharoor and Modi self-destructed, the circus around them diverted all attention from the perfect storm gathering over India. The tempest is a mélange of enduring destitution, growing violence and environmental disaster. The ominous acceleration in these issues, interlinked more than ever, requires urgent national discussions, broad consensus and a grand vision.

If you were not following the poverty debate unfolding between the top echelons of government and a small band of powerful civil-society activists last week, you might wonder how India agreed, almost overnight, to add 100 million to the 300 million people who live below the official poverty line (the ability of a person to spend Rs 17 per day in urban areas and Rs 12 in rural areas).

With pressure growing from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to recognise hunger and poverty as national issues, the government and its Planning Commission — the body that sets the poverty line — set about reviewing the absurd figure of less than 300 million poor Indians, eligible for benefits from a slew of social-security programmes, which, theoretically, run from cradle to grave.

The new figure of 400 million poor may sound like a lot in a country of 1.1 billion, but every expert will tell you this is a gross underestimation. If you were to raise the poverty line to $2 a day — or Rs 90, inadequate for a coffee at a five-star hotel — the number of poor would cross 800 million.

That’s how poor India really is.

These figures are contentious because they determine what the government will spend on social-security programmes.

So, there’s a split in the Planning Commission.

Those opposed to increasing the number of poor say the money needed for them will ruin the government’s effort to rein in India’s already huge fiscal deficit, which soared by 24 per cent to Rs 414,000 crore in 2009-10. (Largely because of the Rs 248,000 crore fiscal stimulus). Their argument: the poor will benefit eventually when the benefits of progress trickle down.

Those in favour of recognising more poor people say India’s hunger and poverty are a national shame, and it is imperative to spend more money on social-security programmes, including food subsidies. Their argument: if you give sops to industry and other pressure groups why can’t you do the same for the millions who can influence nothing? Consider what the IPL gets: entertainment-tax concessions (in Maharashtra); public security forces at a discount; and its income-tax dues haven’t even been assessed in three years.

With Supreme Court commissioners Harsh Mander and N.C. Saxena — both former bureaucrats in the action-now camp advising the highest court on hunger issues — tipped to be on Gandhi’s newly-revived National Advisory Council, the government is, for once, listening.

That’s how Kavita Srivastava of the dogged Right-to-Food campaign got a call from the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday asking what she opposed about the new poverty line. In another age, people like Srivastava would be ignored and reviled, much like Medha Patkar, the big-dam objector, once was.

As this newspaper’s ‘Tracking Hunger’ campaign shows, deprivation is endemic, exacerbated by a looming collapse of India’s social-security network. Since March 24, when the series began, my colleagues found: children eating mud to quell hunger in Jawaharlal Nehru’s old constituency in Uttar Pradesh, mass migrations and slow-malnutrition deaths of men and women in their 30s and 40s in Bolangir, Orissa, children eating wild berries and red ants in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district, children with distended bellies caused by disease and malnutrition lanced through their stomachs with red-hot rods — a tribal superstition meant to make them well. You can read these horror stories and the complex issues facing India at www.hindustantimes.com/trackinghunger.

Linked to this widening collapse of governance is the inexorable rise of the Maoists, who will again exploit our short attention span as they spur the rebellion with greater confidence and cunning.

On Tuesday, emboldened by the slaughter of 76 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers in an April 6 ambush in central India, the rebels launched heavy frontal attacks on CRPF camps in Chhattisgarh. In Bengal, the Maoists have successfully taken over the administration of a State school, ensuring it does not fall into decay.

The government considered drones and new approaches to confronting the Maoists only after the April 6 ambush. If the IPL or the next empty scandal grabs our eyeballs, the public pressure needed to keep India focussed will rapidly evaporate.

Hunger and Maoist violence are not unique to — but are largely centred on — India’s tribal lands, once home to the nation’s densest forests, systematically exploited by local governments, officials and private interests.

With the State in retreat, it’s no surprise that the national animal is fading from sight. The tiger’s decimation — 1,000 or less may be left — is so acute that the prime minister this week appealed to states for an extraordinary effort to save the predator that serves as a barometer for not just the health of the nation’s natural wealth but also of grassroots governance.

When was the last time you discussed how saving the tiger can save India?

Let’s talk — when we tear ourselves away from the IPL.

The perfect storm gathering over India

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Reality of "Slumdog's" extreme poverty irks Indians living in Bollywood dreams

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Slumdog Millionaire is about to be declared the best movie of the year. However most Indians hate the movie because it shows them the reality that they are unable and unwilling to see. The India that exists in the minds of the minds of Indians does not really exist

Talk to an Indian, any Indian, and he or she will talk to you about India the Superpower–convinced that India has already reached stardom because of its humongous IT industry and 6 Billionaires. Try to poke the bubble and be ready for a volatile reaction, abuse, and even threats.

Try to remind an Indian about the reality of the “IT sector” (glorified call centers) and take your life in your own hands. Let them know that the “IT industry”  is only $42 Billion, a drop in the ocean that effects only 6 million people in the land of the cow, and be ready for a death sentence.

Bollywood movies are not filmed in India anymore, because Indians do not want to see the slums—most Indians have thus become oblivious to them, they ignore the penury stricken population and the poverty that makes the lives of millions hell on earth. Too busy blaming outside powers for their endemic problems, Indian politicians have a favorite whipping boy–Pakistan.  India intoxicated by meager success is blind to real self-portrait of caste infested penury and balkanization

“Think of the considerateness of the city, its entire superiority to trifles, its disregard of all those things we spoke of so proudly when we were founding our [ideal] city; we said that, except from altogether extraordinary natures, no one could turn out a good man unless his earliest years were given to noble games, and he gave himself wholly to noble pursuits. Is it not sublime how this city tramples all such things under foot, and is suprememly indifferent as to what life a man has led before he enters politics? If only he asserts his zeal for the multitude, it is ready to honour him.” (Pg. 254, The Republic, Translation by Lindsay, 1954, London: JM Dent & Sons)

The best movie of 2008 did poorly in India because it showed the reality of India. Indians did not want to see reality, so they hated the movie and all it had to show. India at bottom of world’s hungriest countries: Scores worse than Barkino Faso in the list of the hungriest nations on the planet

PRETORIA (Reuters) – There’s an irony behind complaints that Oscar contender “Slumdog Millionaire” recycles cliches about impoverished India: it’s based on a book by not only an Indian, but a high-level ambassador for the country. Vikas Swarup, whose novel “Q&A” became the basis for British director Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches drama about a Mumbai slum kid, is also India’s deputy high commissioner to South Africa. Reuters. Rebecca Harrison. “Slumdog” is no cliche, says Indian author Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:30pm

India has a few blind spots. It does not know about the blind spots. There is no one to show her the blind spots. India, a youthful country overrun by youngsters eking out a subsistence living in the mirage of Bollywood is unable to look at itself with any semblance of realism. A star struck destitute and impecunious populace is proud of evanescent and unattainable trophies, venerating educational institutions it can only brag about (never get admitted to), Billionaires it can worship on statistic charts and luxuries that it can dream about.  

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Despite living in one of the world’s poorest countries by many measures, Indian middle classes love to fantasize about a beautiful and peaceful country all around them that is growing at much the same breakneck pace as the Indian economy itself was until very recently. Mention the millions of destitute peasants and their eyes usually glaze over: you will be beseeched to look at the dynamic information technology corridors of the country, the blazing economic growth and ballooning savings across the corporate and individual sectors. Asia Times. Slumdog communists By Chan Akya

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There is much to hate in this film, and it certainly doesn’t appear as a “feel-good” venture by a long shot. Still what it brings to the table in terms of realism as well as presenting vast vignettes of unintended comedy through the use of mixed metaphors makes the experience worthwhile. In particular, I heartily recommend the film to the Indian middle classes and in particular to anyone still harboring communist sympathies in the country. Asia Times. Slumdog communists By Chan Akya

Inebriated by blindness towards a the goal of superpower status this populace is unable to see the deep cavities within its boundaries. Young xenophobic India votes for those that are hegemonistic and autochthonous. Its leadership impervious of the needs of the penurious is focused on expansionism and destabilizing its neighbors. It behaves like crack-addicts overwhelmed by blind hatred for Buddhists (the real ones who are not Hindu), Dalits, Christians and Muslims–this leadership doesn’t have a clue of what the white world thinks of Indians– unavoidable supplicators at best and disposable computer coolies at worst!

How Buddhism was exterminated from South Asia? 600BC-400AD Replacing Hinduism in Buddhist lands: The Hindu extremists use the Safron Swastika flag instead of the tri-colored flag of India. (see Hindu unity dot org) Extremist Hindus show power using the Swastika in triple entendre–as an ancient Hindu symbol, reverence for Hitler & sign of Anti-Western Indian hatred. Many want to use the Swastika as the Indian flag.

India is behaving a like a pumped up balloon Michelin mascot; pumped by the Americans who need crutches to needle China; pumped up by the British who cannot fight the good war in Afghanistan and expect India to clean up the mess that they have made.

The world is strapped with an unimpressive Indian Prime Minister who delivers written speeches without passion and without any moral convictions. A henpecked Indian Prime Minister has pointed to a “foreign hand” a pointed finger at “Pakistan and or Bangladesh” which itself is a euphemism for Muslims and Islam.

Nehru with all his faults and infatuation with Socialism at least had the ability to make a speech. Indira Gandhi for all her frailties could handle herself and present a positive image of India. Dr. Manmohan Singh makes the imbecilic Pakistani President look like a giant. Pranab Mukherjee makes the low IQ Gilani look like Einstein. What is wrong with a “democracy” that cannot produce leaders?

For what it shows above all else is that the most important ingredient of any emerging economy is the dynamics of development. Political and religious differences matter little when the basic impetus to growth and progress is missing. This is precisely the case in India today where the government gets away with making welfare payments but without infrastructure investments; where communist sympathizers monopolize the distribution of government funds to the point where waste is a national pastime and the frustrations of the underclass are ever increasing.

It is not a big exaggeration to highlight the importance of this film for Indians. That said, it is highly likely that Indians would themselves like to pretend that the film was never made, particularly if it fails to win any further accolades. For that reason alone, perhaps this film deserves to secure an Academy Award. For how many other times can these awards actually claim to have to reset the course of a billion people?Asia Times. Slumdog communists By Chan Akya

The poor of India, the Dalits, the scheduled classes, the Christians, the Naxalites and the Muslims left behind the onward march towards…march towards what? No one know. Ask the irredentist Akhand Bhartis who hated the vivisection of Mother India. Wars with all her neighbors. All this for the reabsorption of all states surrounding it into a huge monolith which may have existed for 80 years under the reign of Ashoka. Many question whether the mythical king ever existed. Ashoka’s kingdom is the Nirvana of India. Few Indians know that Ashoka is as fugacious as his mythical kingdom. Did Ashoka exist? Did Pandit Radhakantta create him for James Princep in 1837. Ashoka’s name first appeared in British journals when the White man was writing “Indian history” (James Princep was the first to coin the term “Ashoka). But don’t tell the pundits (the real ones, not the talking heads on Fox and CNN)–thier entire life depends on churning out the youth who believe in Akhand Bharat.

A brianwashed nation unable to comprehend simple facts like–if one cannot control the current states, how can it control hundreds of millions that are forced into “India”–especially if the million are belligerent and don’t wnat to be part of the mess called “India”. However these are details that are not mentioned in a nation that resembles Weimar Germany–fed on a steady dose of hatred, xenophobia and hostility towards real and perceived enemies.

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PROLOGUE

Stretched out on a shabby makeshift cot next to piles of rubble and dirt, he could be any of Mumbai’s 2.5million slum children.

In fact, the scrawny young boy is the star of one of the biggest films of the year. Slumdog Millionaire is expected to win a clutch of Oscars on Sunday for its uplifting story of a boy from the slums who wins the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The movie has grossed £70million worldwide, made British director Danny Boyle the darling of Hollywood and turned lead actors Dev Patel and Frieda Pinto into big names.

Disease: Rubina stands over a blocked drain near her house

But there is no sign of life imitating art for two of the youngest actors, who many feel are the real stars of the film.  

They are still living in squalor on the outskirts of Mumbai, despite assurances from Boyle that they were paid well.

Rubina as the young Latika in Slumdog Millionaire

He and producer Christian Colson said the child actors were paid ‘three times the amount of an annual adult salary’ for what amounted to a month’s work, although he has refused to give an actual figure.

Despite his claim, ten-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, who plays the lead character’s brother Salim, still lives with his family in extreme poverty.

Their home is a flimsy structure made of tarpaulins and blankets in the overcrowded Behrampada shanty area, where rats crawl around in daylight and sewage runs untreated as children play barefoot.

Washing is done outside, using a bowl of cloudy water and surrounded by piles of rubbish.

At other times, Azharuddin sits with his father and mother on rotting blocks of wood and dusty matting that seem to form the bed that the three of them share.

His mother Shameem Ismail, who is blind in one eye, said: ‘He’s supposed to be the hero in the movie, but look how he’s living. It’s a zero.

‘We need money and help now. It is hard living like this. I am worried that after the Oscars are over they will forget us and no one will be interested.’

Starting the day: Azharuddin washes his face in a bowl of cloudy water, surrounded by piles of rubbish

In fact, the family is now worse off than they were when Slumdog Millionaire was filmed, because the illegal hut they were living in was demolished by the authorities.

His father Mohammed Ismail usually brings in 1,500 to 3,000 rupees (£20 to £40) a month selling scrap wood, but he has tuberculosis and often cannot work.

Ismail’s role as the young Salim has captivated millions across the world

Azharuddin’s parents had hoped the film would be their ticket out of the slums.

Instead, its success has made them realise just how little their children had been paid.

Rubina Ali, nine, who plays the young version of Latika, the film’s heroine, lives a few hundred yards away. Her shack is brightly coloured – but a disease-ridden open sewer runs close by.

Her father, Rafiq Ali Kureshi, a carpenter, broke his leg during filming and has been out of work since.

In a recent interview he said: ‘I am very happy the movie is doing so well but it is making so much money and so much fame and the money they paid us is nothing. They should pay more.’

Azharuddin and Rubina are the only two of the film’s six main child actors to come from such a poor background.

Around 65million people in India – a quarter of the urban population – live in slums.

More than half of Mumbai’s 19million population live in the shanty towns that sprawl out of the city.

The £10million film, which follows the story of a boy born in the slums who can answer all the questions on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? correctly because of his life experiences, has been an unlikely box office hit. 

Living in squalor: Amid rat-infested rubble, the ten-year-old and his father Mohammed rest in the heat on a cot outside their shanty

It has scooped awards including four Golden Globes and seven Baftas, and is nominated for ten Oscars.

Sunday’s ceremony will be a lavish affair, but a spokesman for the film last night refused to say if Azharuddin and Rubina would attend.

Boyle and Colson have strenuously denied claims that any of the children have been exploited.

In a statement, they said they ‘paid painstaking and considered attention to how Azharuddin and Rubina’s involvement in the film could be of lasting benefit over and above the payment they received for their work’.

Real life: Rubina, in the blue top, stands in the doorway of her home

The pair added that the children, who have never received formal eduction, had been enrolled in school since last June at the production company’s expense until they are 18.

They attend Aseema, a non-profit English-language school for underprivileged children. Many who attend need counselling and substantial help and guidance for even the most basic life skills.

On one blackboard, the lesson of the day read: ‘I must close my mouth when I eat.’

Azharuddin and Rubina will also receive a substantial lump sum when they complete their education, although Boyle declined to reveal the figure for fear of putting them at risk.

Boyle also said that additional money was in place to cover health care and emergencies.

Mr Ismail, however, has been dismissive of the efforts.

He has said: ‘There is none of the money left. It was all spent on medicines to help me fight TB. We feel the kids have been left behind by the film. They have told us there is a trust fund but we know nothing about it and have no guarantees.’

On screen: Rubina, centre, and Azharuddin, right, in the film Slumdog Millionaire

Colson said there was ‘a conscious decision not to shower’ the children with cash because they could not handle it ‘psychologically and practically’.

He said that when Azharuddin’s home was demolished, money was wired to the family to find a new home.

And he said it was feared the parents’ commitment to ensuring the children had a proper education had waned.

The filmmakers also claim they have now agreed to buy apartments for the two children and allow the families to move in, with the stipulation that they will not own the property unless the youngsters complete their education.

Tonight, however, a spokesman for the film was unable to provide further details about the apartment plans.

Success: Slumdog director Danny Boyle, left, and star Dev Patel, right, hold one of the many awards the film has scooped so far

Charity’s anger

Slumdog Millionaire faces fresh controversy after implicating a real charity in the abuse of street children.

In the film, a criminal gangmaster pretends to rescue street children, taking them in an orange minibus with ‘Hope’ emblazoned on the side.

The children are then forced into begging and prostitution.

But the real-life Hope Foundation also uses orange vans with the word ‘Hope’ on them to help care for street children in Calcutta.

It has received hundreds of emails from people confusing it with the fictional charity.

The charity’s ambassador, ITV newsreader Andrea Catherwood, said: ‘The situation is frustrating and deeply disappointing.’

Celador Films, which made the movie, said there had been ‘no intention to imply a connection with the Hope Foundation’. 

 

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GANDHI’s RACISM AGAINST BLACKS Seargnt Major Gandhi Gandhi condones Zulu massacres and defends the British. Aug 4 1906

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Gandhi’s letter to his friend Hitler.
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India: More than 75% live below Sub Saharan poverty line

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??????? ????| PAKISTAN LEDGER | ???????? ????? | September 7th, 2008  | Moin Ansari | ???? ??????? |  | RUPEE NEWS | Moin Ansari | September 7th, 2008 | ???? ??????? | ????? ????? |  India has the largest number of poor on the planet. It is beyond comprehension that people who are so underdeveloped have such an elevated view of themselves. How long to extripate penury from india? 300 years! The entire nation living in horrible and unimaginable penury has dreams of becoming a superpower! It it weren’t so sad, it would be very funny.

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More than 75% Indians live below poverty line Muhammad Javed Iqbal

My heart bleeds for the Indian poor. Almost 90% Indians live below the real poverty line. The government of India is callous and shameless when it comes to rescuing its poors. To hide facts, it has arbitarily fixed the povertyline at Rs 10 per day, whereas the standard fixed by world bank and asian bank was US $ 1 which has now been increased to 1.35 dollars due to increasing food prices.

I wonder how ungrteful and thankless we Pakistanis are who are far more better off than the Indians.

Whereas the minimum wage in Paksitan is Rs 6000, Government of India has fixed it at Rs 1250. No wonder, many emploees of Indian government live below poverty line, not to speak of millions who
work in un-organized sectors or are unemployed. India’s population living below povertyline exceeds 90% because now the Asian Bank has fixed povertyline at Us $ 1.35 per day per person.

http://www.wakeupcall.org/administration_in_india/poverty_line.php  Isha Khan  bdmailer@gmail.com

Chilled Urine drinking hot in India. From Gandhi to Prime Minister Desai to common man. Bigotry runs wild and is sanctioned against the 250 million Dalits. Hindu India: A gift from the Hindu Gods:Cows Urine: UK Telegraph reports by Julian West.

500 Indians whose kidneys were removed by a team of doctors running an illegal transplant operation, supplying kidneys to rich Indians and foreigners, police officials said. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/world/asia/30kidney.html

Sudra Holocaust: Genocide of 1 million Dalits in India since 1947: About three million Dalit women have been raped and around one million Dalits killed from the time of Independence. This is 25 times more than number of soldiers killed during the wars fought after independence. That is why Dalits do not need Aryan culture or Hindu Dharma based on caste any more. …” [Dr. Tulsiram]

India: More than 75% live below Sub Saharan poverty line

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India's path of development? or Bollywood balderdash

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Is India on the path of Development? by Alex M Thomas

India's path of development? or Bollywood balderdash

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How long to extirpate penury in India? 300 years to end poverty?

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Hard information on India is hard to come by. Most of it is Indian foreign office frothy fluff, Bollywood balderdash, panaglossian gloss, and slick slithery marketing spin by India Inc. The rest is lipstick on a pig.

• Hunger in India alarming! India at bottom on Hunger Index in South Asia
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• India’s budget– fit for a superpower

Around six out of 10 Indians live in the countryside, where abject poverty is widespread. 34.7 % of the Indian population lives with an income below $ 1 a day and 79.9 % below $ 2 a day. According to the India’s planning commission report 26.1 % of the population live below the poverty line. [World Bank's poverty line of $1 a day, but the Indian poverty line of Rs 360 a month, or 30 cents a day]

The Dalit Network, the Naxalites and some reporting out of India gives a more balanced picture.

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The dark reality, By Siddharth Dube and Mohan Guruswamy, IHT

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The mood among affluent and middle-class Indians as the country marks its 58th year as a republic is unabashedly celebratory. Everywhere they look there is evidence that India is finally being taken seriously as an economic and political powerhouse.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has called for India to be part of an expanded “Group of 8.” Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain has expressed support for India’s place as a permanent member of a refashioned UN Security Council. The World Bank and financial leaders at the World Economic Forum are looking to India to help power the world out of its economic downturn. India’s finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, has predicted another year of over 9 percent economic growth, record foreign investment, and low inflation.

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So it is little wonder that prosperous Indians increasingly think of their country as “Incredible India!,” the tag line of the government’s global advertising campaign.
While there is some welcome truth to these new images, the defining reality of India is that it remains the land of mass poverty, scarcely less so than before its economy began to take off 15 years ago.

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The government’s latest survey of living standards reports that the number of extremely poor Indians, those chronically unable to consume even the minimum calories needed for full functioning, is an astonishing 301 million, just 19 million less than in 1983. At this rate, it would take India 300 years to lift all its people out of even the most extreme levels of poverty. The survey’s results suggest that extreme poverty has fallen no faster, and possibly more slowly, in the past 15 years of spectacular economic growth than in earlier periods, challenging the popular notion that money “trickles down” to all.

Moreover, the true scale of poverty and deprivation is far greater than that suggested by even the huge ranks of the extremely poor. A recent report by the prominent economist Arjun Sengupta, chairman of a key government commission on labor conditions, emphasized that another 50 percent of India’s people, over 500 million in all, live on less than 20 rupees a day, which puts them above the official poverty line but still leaves them “in abject poverty and excluded from all the glory of a shining India.” Twenty rupees is about 50 U.S. cents, but adjusted for purchasing power falls somewhat below the $2 a day international poverty line. While the proportion of Indians living in such poverty has being falling slowly, their absolute numbers have risen by 100 million in the past 15 years alone.

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Poverty has never been high on India’s political agendas. The interests of India’s business elite and growing middle classes dominate media attention. Celebrations of prosperity, typified by the “Incredible India!” campaign, drown out the ubiquitous evidence that the vast majority of Indians lead desperate lives. The view from middle-class India today is that theirs is a land of wealthy and middle-class people, with a small and shrinking minority of impoverished people. No wonder: In a interview with the BBC earlier this year Chidambaram, a key architect of narrow business-friendly reforms, asserted, “I’m confident we can wipe out poverty by 2040.”
What will it take to transform India’s newfound dynamism and prosperity into a meaningful reduction in poverty?
The first step is government recognition of the true scale of poverty. For decades, successive Indian governments have played down the scale of the poverty challenge by insisting that the cut-off line marking poverty be set extraordinarily low, at a level that most experts would consider not poverty but outright destitution. (India’s poverty line is significantly lower than even the widely used $1 per day extreme poverty line.) A report by the Center for Policy Alternatives estimates that a poverty line adequate to cover the costs of meeting such basic human needs as education, nutrition, health care, clothing, safe water and sanitation, would be roughly twice as high as the poverty line in use today. Nearly 80 percent of India’s population would be considered impoverished were the government to adopt this poverty line.
Faced with a true recognition of the massive extent of poverty, the Indian state’s response must certainly include further efforts to sustain the rapid economic growth of recent years. It is this performance that has moved some 90 million Indians into the middle-and upper-class. But with hundreds of millions remaining impoverished, and millions more added to the work force every year, India needs a pattern of economic growth that rapidly creates many decently paid jobs. This requires far more success in expanding manufacturing and industry, following China’s example, rather than just the services sector. And, even more critically, it requires rural prosperity through ending the disastrous neglect of agriculture, rural infrastructure (particularly state-provided irrigation), and rural industries. The lobbyists from trade, finance and business – who have been embraced too closely by almost all of India’s political parties – have little interest in these areas.
Economic growth and jobs will create avenues for the educated and the healthy among the poor to begin to rise out of poverty. But hundreds of millions of Indians are poorly educated or outright illiterate, malnourished, vulnerable to illness, and often oppressed – with the lowest castes, Muslims, and women of the populous northern states worst off.

Setting right these inequities requires not just more money – though far higher government investments are needed on some fronts, such as public health and providing social security benefits to every one of the poor. Much of the billions spent on India’s panoply of poverty programs ends up in the pockets of the country’s legion of corrupt officials, politicians and business people; another large share is never spent because of bureaucratic inefficiency. There are no quick-fix solutions to such problems. Without the mobilization of the poor in rural and urban areas alike, and agrarian reform, neither the government nor the private sector will ever deliver education, health or other vital programs to the poor in a manner that will remedy the backlog of the past. India’s peninsular states have a far better track record on basic services and, increasingly, on poverty, precisely because of decades of political and social movements committed to equity. Such social mobilization is the foundation for eventually making India’s democracy responsive to the country’s impoverished majority.

Incredible India! is still very far from a reality on the ground. It will take nothing less than several decades of commitment to pro-poor economic growth, government reform and mobilization in favor of the poor to realize this vision of India.

Siddharth Dube is the author of “In the Land of Poverty.” Mohan Guruswamy is the chairman of the Center for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi. Courtsey: Dalitnation.wordpress.com and Dalit Network.

We have tried to analyze this question in depth and tried to divorce the myth from the Bollywood reality. Is India a failed state? Yes. India is not a state. If India is poor. How long to end poverty in “Bharat” Affluence in Bharat. The status of India has to be looked at. India as world power! Part 1. We broke this article into two parts. World power India: Part 2. The real problem of India is the strange and with amazing that is repulsive to the planet. Chilled Urine drinking hot in India. From Gandhi to Prime Minister Desai to common man. Bigotry runs wild and is sanctioned against the 250 million Dalits. Hindu India: A gift from the Hindu Gods:Cows Urine: UK Telegraph reports by Julian West. More on Urine drinking in India. A fit from the Gods to Hindus. Bottled Cow Urine. Story reported by Daily Telegraph of UK. The situation may have arisen becuase the father of the nation Mr. Gandhi had very strange antics. Sex life of Mohandas Gandhi, his failures and sexual perversion. His life is like an open book. Sex life of Indira Gandhi. It wans’t just Gandhi it was Mr. Nehru also. Nehru was Gay! Affair with Edwina also

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An introspective look at the cavities that prevent more than a billion people from achieving their full potential. The articles focuses on the cracks within the society. External factors are not discussed there, they are discussed in other articles on this site. Who were the Untouchables in India: Why They Became Untouchables? by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

To read the 1st part of the article: World Power India Part 1

This is the 2nd part of the article: World power India: Part 2

This is the 2nd part of the article which examines the deep divisions and cavities among the various castes, nationalities, ethnicities that eek out a living on the sidewalks and slums of major cities. Dalits, Muslims and the women of India carry the burdens of exploitation. The country is spending less than 1% of education and less than 3% of health and social services. This cannot improve the lot of the common people. Military expenditure is astronomical. However no country can achieve global status of respectability without using her resources. In a case called ‘an experiment” to be repeated in other states, in 2005 several thousands Muslims were massacred under the guidance and support of the administration of Mr. Modi who is poised to become the next Prime Minister of the country.

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Around six out of 10 Indians live in the countryside, where abject poverty is widespread. 34.7 % of the Indian population lives with an income below $ 1 a day and 79.9 % below $ 2 a day. According to the India’s planning commission report 26.1 % of the population live below the poverty line. [World Bank's poverty line of $1 a day, but the Indian poverty line of Rs 360 a month, or 30 cents a day]

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Under a best case scenario, another article on this site proves that it may take centuries to pull the oppressed and poor out of the cycle of penury.

Discrimination in Media

Hindu upper caste men, who constitute just eight per cent of the total population of India, hold over 70 % of the key posts across newsrooms in the country. The so-called twice-born Hindu castes dominate 85 % key posts despite constituting just 16 % of the total population, while the intermediary castes represent a meager 3%.

The Hindu Other Backward Class groups, who are 34 % of the total population, have a share of just 4% in the Indian newsrooms. Muslims, who constitute about 13 % of the population, control just 4 % top posts while Christians and Sikhs have a slightly better representation. But the worst scenario emerges in the case of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes /Aborgines (STs): Based on CSDS study, 2006. Ref: The Hindu, June 05, 2006

Discrimination in Judiciary

India’s subordinate courts have a backlog of over 22 million cases while the 21 high courts and the Supreme Court have 3.5 million and 32,000 pending cases (2006). In subordinate courts, over 15 million cases are filed and an equal number disposed of annually by about 14,000 judges! Every year a million or more cases are added to the arrears. At the current speed, the lower courts may take 124 years for clearing the backlog. There were only 13 judges for every million people.

Recently a parliamentary committee blamed the judiciary for keeping out competent persons of downtrodden communities from “through a shrewd process of manipulation”. Dalits and Indian aborigines are lesser than 20 out of 610 judges working in Supreme Court and state high Courts. “This nexus and manipulative judicial appointments have to be broken, it urged”. [Parliamentary standing committee report on Constitutional Review, Sudarshan Nachiappan]. Among 12 states with high-Muslim population, Muslim representation in judicial sector is limited to 7.8%. (Justice Sachar Report).

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, only 31 per cent criminal trials are completed in less than a year. Some take even more than 10 years. According to its study, Crime in India 2002, nearly 220,000 cases took more than 3 years to reach court, and about 25,600 exhausted 10 years before they were completed. The term of the Liberhan Commission, formed 14 years ago to probe the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya and originally given a mandate of three months, has been extended again!

Discrimination against Children

According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, India has the highest number of street children in the world. There are no exact numbers, but conservative estimates suggest that about 18 million children live and labor in the streets of India’s urban centers. Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta each have an estimated street-children population of over 100,000. The total number of Child labor in India is estimated to be 60 million.

The level of child malnutrition in India is among the highest in the world, higher even than some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, says the report ‘Extent of Chronic Hunger and Malnutrition in India’ by the UN’sspecial rapporteur on the right to food. While around 25 percent children globally were underweight, in India the number was 43 percent. A quarter of all neo-natal deaths in the world, (2.1 million) occurred in India, says UNICEF Report 2007 . More than one in five children who die within four weeks of birthis an Indian. Nearly fifty percent of Indian children who die before the age of five do not survive beyond the first 28 days.

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According to the 2001 census, female literacy in India is 54.16 % against male literacy of 75.85 %. Most of the working women remain outside the organized sector: A mere 2.3 % women are administrators and managers, and 20.5 % professional and technical workers.

There are an estimated 40 million Hindu widows in India, the least fortunate of them shunned and stripped of the life they lived when they were married. It’s believed that 15,000 widows live on the streets of Vrindavan, a Hindu holy city of about 55,000 population in northern India. Many widows – at least 40per cent are said to be under 50 – are dumped by their relatives in religious towns and left to live off charity or beg on the streets. Their plight was highlighted in Deepa Mehta’s award-winning film Water, which had to be shot mainly outside India because of Hindu extremist opposition to the production.

Nearly 9 out of 10 pregnant women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer from malnutrition and about half of all children (47%) under-five suffer from underweight and 21 % of the populations are undernourished. India alone has more undernourished people (204 million) than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined. Nearly 20 % of women dying in childbirth around the globe are Indians. Six out of every 10 births take place at home and untrained people attend more than half of them. 44 % of the Indian girls were married before they reached the age of 18. It added, 16 % of girls in the age group 15-19 years were already mothers or expecting their first child and that pregnancy is the leading cause of mortality in this age group.

On an average one Indian woman commits suicide every four hours over a dowry dispute. During Indian marriage, women should bring jewellery, cash and even consumer durables as part of dowry to the in-laws. If they fail, the victims are burnt to death – they are doused in kerosene and set fire to. Routinely the in-laws claim that the death happened simply due to an accident.

Rape is the fastest growing crime in India. Every hour Indian women face two rapes, two kidnappings, four molestations and seven incidents of cruelty from husbands and relatives [National Crime Records Bureau Report 2006]

Fetus Killing: Women Harassed in “Incredible India”: Persistent ogling, heckling by Indian men. GENDER MURDER:-10 million baby girls killed before & after birth

Women to men ratio were feared to reach 20:80 by the year 2020 as female fetus killing is rampant. Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, told Indian Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhuryto Reuters. According to the 2001 census, the national sex ratio was 933 girls to 1,000 boys, while in the worst-affected northern state of Punjab, it was 798 girls to 1,000 boys. The availability of ultrasound sex-determination tests leads to such mass killings in India.

Around 11 million abortions are carried out in India every year and nearly 80,000 women die during the process, says a report from Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI)

Human Trafficking

Out of the 593 districts in India, 378 or 62.5 % are affected by human trafficking. In 2006, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sponsored study conducted by Shakti Vahini, found that domestic violence, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty; unsafe migration and child marriage are the major reasons for the increasing rate of illegal human trafficking.

95 % of the women in Madhya Pradesh in commercial sex are due to family traditions. So are 51.79 % in Bihar,’ said the study. While 43 % of the total women trafficked are minors, 44 percent of the women are into flesh trade due to poverty. Of the total women who are into sex work in the country, 60 % are from the lower and backward class, which indicates the pathetic living condition of the communities. In Madhya Pradesh, a political bastion of Hindu right wing party, 96.7 % of the women sex workers are from the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

India has 4 million prostitutes nationwide and 60% of the prostitutes are from the Scheduled Castes and Tribes or other backward caste. UNAIDSsays over 38% of those living with HIV in India are women.

High Crime Rate and Communal Riots

India reported 32,481 murders, 19,348 rapes, 7,618 dowry deaths and 36,617 molestation cases in 2006. As far as states are concerned, NCRBhas found that Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of crimes (1,94,711) followed by Maharashtra (1,91,788), Andhra Pradesh (1,73,909), Tamil Nadu (1,48,972) and Rajasthan (1,41,992) during 2006. According to National Crime Records Bureau, there was 1822602 riots in 2005 alone. [ Incidence Of Cognizable Crimes (IPC) Under Different Crime Heads, concluded, Page 2] NCRB website

On average there are more than 2000 cases of kidnappings per year in India. Under India’s notorious caste system, upper caste Hindus inherited key positions and controls all the governmental branches. Violence against victims largely goes unpunished due to the support of upper caste crooks.

Economic Crimes

Economic Crime continues to be pervasive threat for Indian Companies, with 35 % of the organizations reporting having experienced fraud in the past two years according to PwC Global Economic Crime Survey 2007. Many incidents of fraud are going unreported. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ India findings:

• * Corruption and Bribery continues to be the most common type of fraud reported by 20 % of the respondents;
• * The average direct financial loss to companies was INR 60 Million (US $ 1.5 million) during the two year period. In addition the average cost to manage economic crime in India was INR 40 Million (US $ 1 Million) which is close to double that of the global and Asia Pacific average;
• * In 36% of cases companies took no action against the perpetrators of fraud;
• * In 50% of the cases frauds were detected by chance. [PWC Report 2007]

Armed Conflicts in India:

Almost every state has separatist movements, many of them armed. A large number of Muslims were killed in the past few years across the country and the numbers are on a steady rise. On top of that India has become a paraya for its neighbours. None of its neighbours appreciate their closeness to India and they all blame it for meddling in their affairs.

The military might of centric Hindu elites in Delhi isolated people of Jammu & Kashmir and the northeastern states. It is difficult for any community to feel part of a larger country when the armed forces of the country are deployed to silence them.

According to an Indian official report , 165 of India’s 602 districts – mostly in states like Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh – are “badly affected” by tribal and dalit violence, which government termed as “Maoist terror”. India’s military spending was recorded at US $21.7 billion in 2006 andit planned to spend $26.5 billion during 2008/09 financial year. 85 percent of the Army’s budget is spent on the enormous manpower of 1,316,000, which is the fourth largest in the world.

In 2005, Business Week reported that India became Israel’s largest importer of weapons, accounting for about half of the $3.6 billion worth of weapons exported by the Jewish state.

Booming industry of Terrorism Experts and Security Research Institutes

With the emergence of Hindutva fascist forces andtheir alliance with neo cons and zionists, India witnessed a sharp increase in the number of research institutes, media houses andlobbying groups. Together they create fake terror stories with the help of intelligence wing, employ their own terror mafia, manipulate explosions in areas of tribals, dalits or minorities. India, incidentally, has bought military hardware andsoftware from Israel worth over $7 billion since the 1991 Kargil conflict. By creating conflicts in this poor country, Brahmin spin masters get huge commission from the sale of weapons to government forces. To them, ‘National Interest‘ simply means ‘Brahmin Interest’. Their lobbying power bring more wealth to their families as jobs, citizenship of rich countries and educational opportunities abroad.

The Defence Offset Facilitation Agency estimating the expenditure on the sector at USD 100 billion for next five years. At least 38 court cases relating to arms agreements are still pending against bureaucrats and military officers. Hindu fascist forces currently enjoy upper hand in media, civil service, judiciary, defence and educational streams of Indian society. Sooner or later, 25,000 strong democratic institutions in India will be collapsed and the country will be transformed to a limited democracy like Turkey or Israel.

Suicides of Farmers and collapse of Agricultural sector

In the last two years, more than 218,000 people across India committed suicide mainly due to poverty, family feud, strained relationship with loved ones, dowry harassment and health problems. In a research by the Indian National Crime Records Bureau, it was noted that suicide cases in the country were registered at 118,112 and over 100,000, in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

Most of those who committed suicide were farmers, and the victims took their lives either by hanging or consuming poison. Aside from farmers, women also topped the list of people in India with suicidal tendencies. Since 1998 about 25 000 Indian farmers have committed suicide because they could not repay their debts. These debts, however, have largely accumulated because these farmers were severely overcharged by their money-lenders asking for up to 32% of interest.

76 per cent of the nation’s land is belonging to 23 per cent of population. More than 15 million rural households in India are landless. Another 45 million rural families own some land, less than 0.10 acre each, which is hardly enough to make them self- sufficient, let alone generate a profit. 340 million people in India are dependent largely on agricultural wage labour, $1 or less a day.[Rural Development Institute (RDI), Washington]

Unemployment

Recently, a national report on the employment situation in India has warned that nearly 30 percent of the country’s 716 million-strong workforce will be without jobs by 2020. Government of India doesn’t have the resources or political will to find jobs for such a large population.

Retail trade employs 8 percent of India’s population, the largest employer after agriculture. There are more than 12 million small retailers in India, 96 percent of whom are small mom-and-pop stores, each occupying less than 500 square feet, creating the highest retail-outlet density per capita in the world. [Tarun Khanna, Yale]

Call centers and other outsourced businesses – such as software writing, medical transcription and back-office tasks – employ more than 1.6 million people in India, mostly in their 20s and 30s. Heart disease is projected to account for 35% of deaths among India’s working-age population between 2000 and 2030 says World Health Organization study. That number is about 12% for the United States, 22% for China and 25% for Russia.

Internal Migration and influx to the cities

Mumbai, the commercial capital of India is projected to grow into a city of about 21.9 million by the year 2015 and currently is plagued by vast poverty due to influx from villages. There are 5 million living on the street every night, covered only in newspaper, ” says Dr. Werner Fornos, president of the Global Population Education think tank and the former head of the Population Institute in Washington, D.C.

India is spending more than $400 million (£200m) to polish Delhi’s image as a first-rate capital, a difficult task for a city that seems to exist between the first and third worlds. A third of the capital’s 14 million-plus people live in teeming slums. According to crime statistics of 2006, Delhi continues to be the undisputed ‘crime capital’ of the country for the past 5 years in a row. 35 mega cities in India collectively reported a total of 3,26,363 cognizable crimes in 2006, an increase of 3.7% over 2005. Delhi, Mumbai andBangalore together accounted for more than one-third of all crimes reported in Indian cities having a population of over a million people, for the second year in a row.

India, a closed country

India’s share in world tourism map, was hovering between 0.38% to 0.39% for number of years. Irrespective of its huge area and beautiful nature, the foreign exchange earned from tourism was merely $2.61 billion (2006). India, scored only 4.14 out of seven in The WEF’s recently released Travel andTourism Competitive Index (TTCI2007). Among 124 countries listed, Switzerland ranked highest while India was placed at 65th rank, which is far below of Malaysia (ranked 31). India was also listed at the bottom of ‘developing and threshold countries’, which listed Tunisia at 34th place.

Indian immigration doesn’t welcome foreigners to visit India . [VISA requirements, T&T index, India ranked 106, while Malaysia ranked 15] . VOA facilities are not available to anyone. The easier entry to India virtually limited to countries with considerable Hindu population like Mauritius or Nepal. The Hindu elite leaders of the country always concerned about India’s physical boundaries and its holy cows rather than the life of its 85 % poor people. To them, the national interest means their own economical or political interests.

Indian Embassies are rated as the worst service providers around the globe. They are notorious for ‘red tapes‘ and ‘ corruption friendly service‘ a complaint repeatedly quoted by Non Resident Indians itself.

Global Warming effects in India

Economic loss due to global warming in India is estimated between 9-25%. GDP loss may be to the tune of 0.67%. Prediction of loss of wheat is more. Rabi crops will be worse hit which threatens food security. Drought and flood intensity will increase.100-cm sea level rise can lead to welfare loss of $1259 million in India equivalent to 0.36% of GNP. Frequencies and intensities of tropical cyclones in Bay of Bengal will increase. Malaria will be accelerated to an endemic in many more sates. 20% rise in summer monsoon rainfall. Extreme temperatures and precipitations are expected to increase. [Sir Nicholas Stern Report]

Transportation

Despite the much touted economic boom, only 0.8 percent of Indians own a car most are on foot, motorbikes, or carts. And of all the vehicles sold in India from April to November of last year, 77 percent were two-wheelers – motorcycles, mopeds, or scooters. China has built over 34,000 km of expressways, compared to less than 8,000 km in India. According to Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM), nearly 42o million man hours are lost every month by the 7 million -odd working population of Delhi and NCR who take the public transport to travel to work because of traffic congestion during the peak morning and evening hours. India is having only less than 1% of the world’s vehicle population.

Road Safety

India accounts for about 10 percent of road accident fatalities worldwide and the figures are the highest in the world. Indian roads are poorly constructed, traffic signals, pedestrian pavements and proper signage almost nonexistent. The other reasons are encroachments, lack of parking facility and ill-equipped and untrained traffic police, corruption and poor traffic culture. An estimated 1,275,000 persons are grievously injured on the road every year. Social cost of annual accidents in India has been estimated at $ 11,000. The Government of India’s Planning Commission has estimated there to be 15 hospitalised injuries and70 minor injuries for every road death.

According to NATPAC, The number of accidents for 1000 vehicles in India is as high as 35 while the figure ranges from 4 to 10 in developed countries. An estimated 270 people die each day from road accidents, and specialists predict that will increase by roughly 5 percent a year. Accidents also cause an estimated loss of Rs 8000 million to the country’s economy. About 80 per cent of the fatal andsevere injury occurred due to driving faults. According to World Bank forecasts India’s death rate is expected to rise until 2042 if no remedial action being taken. The number of road accidents in China dropped by an annual average 10.8 per cent for four consecutive years from 2003, despite continuous growth in the number of privately owned cars.

Doing Business in India

It takes 50 days to register a property as compared to less than 30 days in China, and less than 10 days in the United States and Thailand. Average cost of a business start-up is over 60 percent of per capita income, much higher than any of the comparator countries.

India has the highest cost of electricity among major industrialised and emerging economies ($0.8 per kwh for industry as against $0.1 kwh in China), result of the highest transmission and distribution losses in the world, or in other words a quarter of the gross electricity output. Transport costs are very high in India. It accounts for 25% of total import costs as against only 10% in comparator countries. [World Bank Report on India]

Foreign remittance from Non Resident Indians

In 2006, India received the highest amount of remittance globally from migrants, 27 $Billion. Around 20$ billion of this came from the Gulf expatriate workforce. Together, GCC countries are the largest trading partner of India and home of 5 million of Indian workforce. Indian government expects overseas Indians to pump in about US$500 billion into the FOREX reserves of the country in the next 10 years, making them the single largest source of foreign receipts.

Foreigners Living in India

Historically, about 72 % of the current Indian population is originated from Aryan race. Prominent historians and Dravidians consider Aryans as foreign invaders to India. The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) was postulated by eminent Oxford scholar Max Muller in 1882 and later advanced by several western and Indian historians.

Under the current scenario, potential migrants or ‘invaders’ to India include few ‘hired or weird’ Pakistani bombers, villagers aroundIndia’s border with Bangladesh, Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and Indian import of Nepali prostitutes. 92 year old, Indian Painter Maqbool Fida Hussainlives in Dubai after death threats from Hindu militants. According to Hindu extremists Bangladeshi story teller Taslima Nasrin passed all the tests for an Indian citizenship. Italian born Sonia Gandhi , the Christian widow of Rajiv Gandhi is still considered as a foreigner by Hindu elites while Pakistan born Hindu, Lal Krishna Advani is ‘legally and morally fit’ to become India’s next Prime Minister.

Quit India!

Sixty years ago Indians asked the British to quit India. Now they are doing it themselves. To live with dignity and enjoy relative freedom, one has to quit India! With this massive exodus, what will be left behind will be a violently charged and polarized society.

Hindutva’s fake National Pride on India

A 2006 opinion poll by Outlook-AC Nielsen shows that 46 % of India’s urban class wants to settle down in US. Interestingly, in the Hindutva heart land of Gujarat, 54 % of people want to move to US.

Even Parliament members of the Hindutva party are involved in human trafficking from India. Recently police arrested, Babubhai Katara, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, who was part of such a racket. He received 20,000 US $ per person for US migration from victims.

When Indians are fleeing aroundthe world to find a job, how can this hindutva idiots can claim on “National Pride of India”?

India is the World Bank’s largest borrower, In June 2007 it provided $3.7bn in new loans to India. Due to the fake ‘India Shining’ propaganda launched by Hindutvaidiots, foreign donors are reluctant to help the poor people in this country. According to figures provided by Britain’s aid agency, the total aid to India, from all sources, is only $1.50 a head, compared with an average of $17 per head for low-income countries. [Financial Times]

Hindutva Idiots, Your false pride and actions make our life miserable.

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India has been bragging about being a political superpower and a military might. A brief look will abundantly expose the facade of the Indian economy; which will collapse at the first signs of uncertainty or instability.

• In 2008, its external debts increased to around $221 billion.
• In 2007, Indian exports stood around $145 billion, while imports were around $217 billion; a deficit of $72 billion in a single year.
• India’s trade deficit was $117.3 billion in 2009/10, down from $118.7 billion in 2008/09. In 2010 the deficit has mushroomed beyond reasonable levels. Reuters survey in April forecast the gap would widen to $132.70 billion in 2010/11 and $154.50 billion in 2011/12 (http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49834320100702)
• Bharat is one of the largest recipient of foreign aid in the world. The UKs biggest recipient of British aid is Bharat. The UK donates 500 million Pound Sterling to Bharat every year. Many other countries also give foreign aid to Bharat. Bhart‘s biggest donor is Japan.
• India currently accounts for 1.5% of World trade as of 2007. Bharat’s trade imbalance with the US for 2010 is -7,980.5 million or around 8 billion USD.

Bharat is one of the biggest debtor nations on the planet with public and private debt estimated between $250 billion to $3 Trillion.

• India fails to distribute wealth to poor: UN Report (pakistanledger.com)
• India falls to 88th spot on World Prosperity Index (rupeenews.com)
• India behind Pakistan and Bangladesh, on human development indices: UN Report (rupeenews.com)

2010 numbers: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today presented a budget with a fiscal deficit of 5.5% of the gross domestic product (GDP).
He pegged the total expenditure at Rs11.09 lakh crore while the total tax and non-tax revenue was estimated at Rs6.82 lakh crore for the year 2010-11. The deficit is much lower than the budgeted estimate for the current fiscal (6.8%), which, however, has been revised to 6.9%.

Bharat has never been a net exporter like China which has colossal surpluses with almost every country of the world.

Its factory output account for 27.6% of the GDP and employs 17% of the total workforce. Rest of the workforce is largely dedicated to the agriculture sector. According to a 2008 World Bank report, 75.6% Indians live on less than $2 per day. It suffers from higher rates of malnutrition than Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 70% of its population is either illiterate or educated below the primary level. Indian tourist industry is 1/6 of Las Vegas. Recently, Standard & Poor’s announced, India risks a downgrade from BBB-minus rating to the lowest investment-grade rating. Clearly, Indians are hardly in a financial shape to even contemplate on waging a war.

Indian service industry accounts for over 55% of its GDP. Bangalore is called the Silicon Valley of India. A large number of Information Technology companies are located in the city. It is the largest contributor of India’s $33 billion IT exports (2007), .  The Statesman. A Gill. Dec. 30th, 2008. It is at $50 billion (2010) in 2010 but an exponential growth faces Anti-Outsourcing laws in the US and Europe.

• Hunger in India alarming! India at bottom on Hunger Index in South Asia
• How long to extripate penury from india? 300 years!
• India’s budget– fit for a superpower

Around six out of 10 Indians live in the countryside, where abject poverty is widespread. 34.7 % of the Indian population lives with an income below $ 1 a day and 79.9 % below $ 2 a day. According to the India’s planning commission report 26.1 % of the population live below the poverty line. [World Bank's poverty line of $1 a day, but the Indian poverty line of Rs 360 a month, or 30 cents a day]

The Current Account Balance of India

“A major area of vulnerability for us is the high consolidated public-debt to GDP ratio of over 70 percent … (and) consolidated fiscal deficit,” says the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Mr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy.

According to CIA world fact book, the Current account balance of India is -10,360,000,000 (minus) while China is the wealthiest country in the world with $ 249,900,000,000 (Plus). India is listed as 152 and China as no.1 [CIA: The world fact book].Amnesty International (AI) 2008 report on issues within India (http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/29/amnesty-int-2008-report-excoriates-horrid-india)

Human Development vs GDP growth

The Human Development Report for 2007-08 released by the UNDP ranked India 128 out of 177 countries, working it out through measures of life expectancy, education and income. Malaysia ranked 63 and listed at under High Human Development category. The report found that India’s GDP per capita (purchasing power parity) is $3,452, far below Malaysia’s $10,882. China listed as 81. Read the statistics from UNDP website.

Dalits: Caste discrimination. Poverty stricken and destitute

Sudra Holocaust: Genocide of 1 million Dalits in India since 1947: About three million Dalit women have been raped and around one million Dalits killed from the time of Independence. This is 25 times more than number of soldiers killed during the wars fought after independence. That is why Dalits do not need Aryan culture or Hindu Dharma based on caste any more. …” [Dr. Tulsiram]

• India: More than 75% live below Sub Saharan poverty line
• India: 3500-yrs of massacres of Dalit-Sudra Blacks by Arya-Brahmins
• Eat Rats:Indian officials ask starving Indians to eat rodents (BBC)
• Indian girl Infanticide-Female Foeticide: 1 million girls killed before or after birth per year
• Khumb Mela India: 60 million Filthy Naked Indian sadus

Population:

According to the Indian census of 2001, the total population was 1.028 billion. Hindus numbered 827 million or 80.5 %. About 25 per cent (24 million) of those Hindus are belonging to Scheduled Castes and Tribes. About 40 per cent (400 million) are “Other Backward Castes”.

15 per cent Hindu upper castes inherited majority of India’s civil service, economy and active politics from British colonial masters. And thus the caste system virtually leaves lower caste Hindus in to an oppressed majority in India’s power structure. The 2004 World Development Report mentions that more than 25% of India’s primary school teachers and 43% of primary health care workers are absent on any given day!
Chilled Urine drinking hot in India. From Gandhi to PM Desai.

Living conditions of Indians

89 percent of rural households do not own telephones; 52 percent do not have any domestic power connection. There are daily power cuts even in the nation’s capital. The average brownout in India is three hours per day during non-monsoon months, 17 hours daily during the monsoon. The average village is 2 kilometers away from an all-weather road, and 20 percent of rural habitations have partial or no access to a safe drinking-water supply. [Tarun Khanna, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization]

Around 60 per cent people are not having access to financial institutions in India. This figure is less than 15 per cent in developed countries. (NABARD) According to the National Family Health Survey data (2005-06), only 45 per cent of households in the country had access to improved sanitation.

Education

India has over 35 per cent of the world’s total illiterate population. [UNESCO Education for All Report 2008] Only 66 per cent people are literate in India (76 per cent men and 54 per cent women)

About 40 million primary school-age children in India are not in school. More than 92 % children cannot progress beyond secondary school. According to reports, 35 per cent schools don’t have infrastructure such as blackboards and furniture. And close to 90 per cent have no functional toilets. Half of India’s schools still have leaking roofs or no water supply.

Japan has 4,000 universities for its 127 million people and the US has 3,650 universities for its 301 million, India has only 348 universities for its 1.2 billion people. In the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities by Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong, only two Indian Universities are included. Even those two IITs in India found only a lower slot (203-304) in 2007 report. Although Indian universities churn out three million graduates a year, only 15% of them are suitable employees for blue-chip companies. Only 1 million among them are IT professionals.

Why did Buddhism disappear from South Asia?

Health

India has the single highest share of neonatal deaths in the world, 2.1 million.107,000 Leprosy patients live in India. 15.3 % of the population do not survive to the age of forty. Serpent attacks kill as many as 50,000 Indians while the cobra occupies a hallowed place in the Hindu religion. Heart disease, strokes and diabetes cost India an estimated $9 billion in lost productivity in 2005. The losses could grow to a staggering $200 billion over the next 10 years if corrective action is not taken quickly, says a study by the New Delhi-based Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.There are only 585 rural hospitals compared to 985 urban hospitals in the country. Out of the 6,39,729 doctors registered in India, only 67,576 are in the public sector and the rest either in private sectors or abroad, pointing towards the severity of the problem.Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in India. India accounts for one-fifth of the global TB incident cases. Each year about 1.8 million people in India develop TB, of which 0.8 million are infectious cases. It is estimated that annually around 330,000 Indians die due to TB. [WHO India]Economy under the siege of Elite HindusMap of India showing the highest concentration of Brahmins and Hindu extremists known as Hinduvta”]

India Infanticide map: Killing 10 million baby girls before and right after brith

Amnesty International (AI) 2008 report on issues within India (http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/29/amnesty-int-2008-report-excoriates-horrid-india)India today allocates lower than one per cent gross domestic product (GDP) to health. According to United Nations calculations, India’s spending on public health as a share of GDP is the 18th lowest in the world. 150 million Indians are blind. 2.13 per cent of the total population (21.9 million) live with disabilities in India. Yet, only 34 per cent of the disabled are employed [Census 2001

In India, wealth of 36 families amounts to $ 191 billion, which is one-fourth of India's GDP. In other words, 35 elite Hindu families own quarter of India's GDP by leaving 85 % ordinary Hindus as poor!

The dominant group of Hindu nationalists come from the three upper castes ( Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas ) that constitute only 10 per cent of the total Indian population. But, they claim perhaps 80 % of the jobs in the new economy, in sectors such as software, biotechnology, and hotel management.

Extremist Hindus revere Hitler and use the Swastika as the Indian flag

Corruption

According to TI, 25 % of Indians paid bribe to obtain a service. 68 % believe that governmental efforts to stop the corruption as ineffective. More than 90 % consider police and political parties as the worst corrupt institutions. 90 % of Indians believe that corruption will increase within the next 3 years. "Corruption is a large tax on Indian growth, It delays execution, raises costs and destroys the moral fiber." says Prof. Rama Murthi. Transparency International estimates that Indian truckers pay something in the neighborhood of $5 billion annually in bribes to keep freight flowing. According to Rahul Gandhi, only 5 per cent of development funds reached their intended recipients due to hierarchical corruption in the country! [Financial Times] Discrimination against Dalits

250 million Dalits in India eek out a living in subhuman conditions

Crime against Dalits occur every 20 minutes in India. Every day 3 Dalit women are raped, 2 Dalits are murdered and 2 Dalit houses are burnt down! These figures represent only a fraction of actual incidents since many Dalits do not register cases for fear of retaliation by the police and upper-caste Hindu individuals. Official figures show that there are still 0.343 million manual scavengers in India from Dalit community. More than 165 million Dalits in India are simply abused by their Hindu upper castes for their birth! . [HRW Report2007]

Human Rights

When it comes to Human Rights issues in India, it is not ratified the UN Convention against Torture, its citizens do not have the opportunity to find recourse in remedies that are available under international law. The victims are trapped with the local Hindu caste system, which in every aspect militates against their rights.India has a very poor record of protecting the privacy of its citizens, according to the latest report from Privacy International (PI). India scored 1.9 points, which makes it an ‘extensive surveillance society’. A score between 4.1 and 5.0 (the highest score) would mean a country “consistently upholds human rights standards”. PI is a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. [Surveillance Report 2007]

The police in India continue to remain militaristic in design and suppressive in practice. The police officials are accused of favoritism, being discourteous to the public, and ignoring the complaints of the poor. Moreover they are seen as violators of the law, open-handedly accepting bribes and fabricating various elements of investigations. Many victims conclude that a justice system accessible to the poor of the land does not exist at all.

Fake encounter killings are rampant in India. This extra judicial killings are inspired by theological texts of Brahmins like Artha Shastra and Manusmriti which teaches espionage and torture methods. Every such killing of an innocent person, branded a terrorist, has encouraged the killer cops to target socially excluded communities like dalits, tribals and minorities.According to the National Human Rights Commission, as on 30th June 2004, there were 3,32,112 prisoners in Indian jails out of which 2,39,146 were under trial prisoners. That’s more than 70 %. India’s jails hold a disproportionate number of the country’s minority Muslims, a sign of discrimination and alienation from the Hindu majority. The bar association in India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, has refused to represent 13 Muslim suspects accused bombing courthouses in 2005 . A large part of Indian attorneys and judges appear regularly on the events organized by notorious Hindu militant groups. Prison statistics of Indian Jails can be seen from National Crime Record Bureau, here

Minorities

About 20 %, or 200 million, are religious minorities. Muslims constitutes 138 million or 13.4 5, Christians 24 million or 2.3 %, Sikhs 19 million or 2 %, Buddhists 8 million or 0.8 % and Jains 4 million or 0.4 %. “Others” numbered 6.6 million or 0.6 %. According to Mr. Tahir Mahmood, an Indian Muslim journalist, “The 2.3 % Christians in the Indian population cater to 20 % of all primary education in India, 10 % of all the literacy and community health care, 25 % of all existing care of destitute and orphans, 30 % of all the handicapped, lepers and AIDS patients etc”.

Discrimination against Minority Muslims

GENOCIDE AGAINST MUSLIMS: The charred bodies of Muslim after the Hindus attacked, murdered and burned them in Gujarat in 2002. The fate of Mulsims in India

Recently, Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee report admitted that 138 Million Muslims across India are severely under-represented in government employment, including Public Sector Units. Ironically, West Bengal, a communist ruled state reported 0 (zero) percent of Muslims in higher positions in its PSUs! It has found that the share of Muslims in government jobs and in the lower judiciary in any state simply does not come anywhere close to their population share. The only place where Muslims can claim a share in proportion to their population is in prison! (Muslims convicts in India is 19.1%, while the number of under trials is 22.5%, which exceed their population ratio) . A note sent on January 9 by the army to the defence ministry in 2004 says that only 29,093 Muslims among a total of 1.1 million personnel – a ratio of 2.6 %, which compares poorly with the Muslims’ 13.8 % share in the Indian population. Officially, Indian Army don’t allow head count based on religion.

The genocide of Muslims in Kashmir; Kashmiris want to join Pakistan

A Muslim child attends school for three years and four months, compared to the national average of four years. Less than two percent of the students at the elite Indian Institutes of Technology comprise of the Muslim community. According to the National Knowledge Commission member Jayathi Ghosh, ‘there is a need to re-orient official strategies for ensuring better access of Muslim children to schooling outside the madrasas which cater to only four per cent of children from the community.’

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• Paper Tigers: Indian tenuous “hold” on Kashmir is slipping fast
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• Nepal: Indian Intrigues to demolish & absorb the country

Amnesty International (AI) 2008 report on issues within India (http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/29/amnesty-int-2008-report-excoriates-horrid-india)

THE FARCE OF DEMOCRACY:

• …Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, .. the country also has three Nigerias with
• … that there are still close to 800 million people in India who live on less than $2 a day (Fareed Zakaria)
• “What you see issue after issue, state after state is that powerful [special interest groups] … landed interests have been able to capture the political system and extract government benefits for themselves [by way of] subsidies, etc,” (Fareed Zakaria)
• “It is a great shame… The large majority of people have somehow slipped though the cracks. So you see that India does worse than Bangladesh, worse than Cuba, worse than Syria, on all these measures. It does worse than many other countries that have lower per capita GDP [gross domestic product] than India has…(Fareed Zakaria)
• one has to ask oneself that if the country does not make significant investments in education and healthcare…(Fareed Zakaria)
• All this sounds very gloomy…(Fareed Zakaria) http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/23fareed.htm

APPENDIX A-Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, believes that while India has several Silicon Valleys within it, the country also has three Nigerias within.

“The Indian private sector is doing extraordinary things and the country is bursting with energy, yet behind all these is the reality,” Zakaria said alluding to the rampant poverty that coexists with affluence. That reality, he said, is that there are still close to 800 million people in India who live on less than $2 a day despite India being a democracy, which is its greatest pride.

His remarks came during a keynote address at the Child Relief and You-United States fundraiser May 5 in the presence of 200-odd guests.

Zakaria said in India, democracy has not allowed the rule of the majority.

“What you see issue after issue, state after state is that powerful minorities, farmers, minority interests and landed interests have been able to capture the political system and extract government benefits for themselves [by way of] subsidies, etc,” he said.

Noting that Indian democracy is wedded to these powerful minorities, he said this is not an unfamiliar concept in democracy — in the US they are called special interests. But he said in India it has proved deadly because people who do not get represented are the ones who are powerless. Little wonder, he said, that at the annual United Nations Human Development Index, India fares very badly.

“It is a great shame for Indian democracy. The large majority of people have somehow slipped though the cracks. So you see that India does worse than Bangladesh, worse than Cuba, worse than Syria, on all these measures. It does worse than many other countries that have lower per capita GDP [gross domestic product] than India has,” Zakaria said.

“It is one of the important things that will make it impossible for India to continue this extraordinary growth and for this growth to trickle down to the masses,” he said. Zakaria said there are all kinds of models of economic policy — from Hong Kong which was totally laissez faire to South Korea which had lots of tariffs and regulations, to Taiwan which was somewhere in the middle, to Singapore which was pro-market but had a huge government presence.

“But there were three factors that were in common in all these East Asian models. First was broad hospitality to markets and trade, investment in education, particularly for the poorer half of the population, and third was the investment in health,” Zakaria said. “Those are, so far, lacking in the Indian case,” he added.

Zakaria said when one looks at India’s great growth story, one has to ask oneself that if the country does not make significant investments in education and healthcare — which is essentially the investment in children that CRY is talking about — will India be able to sustain the growth rate and sustain it in a way that it spreads to the entire country?

“I have talked about India’s systematic and political failings. What we have to do in a sense is to take advantage of the great political strengths that India has — its openness, its democracy, its freedom and its participation at the civic society sector,” he said. “In other words, if India’s strength is the society, not the State, if India’s strength is the micro growth, not the macro growth, if India’s strength is the small entrepreneur and not the technocrat, then we have to leverage that and use that as best as we can,” Zakaria said.

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“That is where you come in because it means that the only way this problem is going to be solved is if Indian society and the friends of Indian society mobilize and petition the government and get civic society involved, get nonprofits involved… That is the only way to get it solved — a broad, multi-pronged, multi-tier strategy that tries to attack the problem,” Zakaria said amid applause.

He said India is not going to get some “great minister of health or minister of education or minister for children’s affair” who is going to suddenly make all these things happen and therefore there is no point sitting around for a good government. He said the only way it could happen is by pressing the government as well as through a charitable solution. “It has to be bottom up approach and not a top-down approach which means that you can’t wait around and hope and wish. We have to reverse them,” he said.

“All this sounds very gloomy, but I think it is less gloomy and India growth story is not as fragile as it sounds because of the event this evening and because of organizations like CRY. There are all these problems but there are all these solutions and people, who are interested, who are motivated and who want to do something and who are beginning to change the dynamic,” Zakaria said, ending his keynote on an optimistic note. http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/23fareed.htm

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INSIGHT: Here’s a cue on A.Q. Khan —Ejaz Haider

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Pakistan is the most abused ally of the USA. The “Do More” mantra is offensive and anti-Pakistan diatribe is Pakistan bashing under an agenda, known only to some. It is this picture of “ingratefulness” “forgetfulness” and “deceit” that creates the picture of “The Ugly American” and destroys and disparages my great land…the USA. The mdia has no right to destroy the image and the friendships that have taken generations to build with the people of Pakistan. “They” have no right to speak on behalf of Americans, since ”they” have an agenda!!

Pakistan has more then 20,000 soldiers protecting her weapons in deep silos in the mountains. More than 30,000 scientists work in the nuclear proram. A small number work in the missle program. The arguments for securing Pakistani assetts is as absurd as looking for WMDs in Iraq.

Pakistan was the only nation dismembered after World War Two. Pakistanis have pledged “Never Again” and no amount of arm twisting will let Pakistanis give up their sovereignty. Pakistani friends of the USA have the following advise for American diplomats: The diplomats and “journalists” should “do more” and take memory improvement pills.  The selective amnesia of these diplomats and columnists conjure up images of ”The Ugly American“ that has forgotten “Charlie’s War” (Congressman Charlie Wilson) and the fact that it was the CIA that created these Frankenstein’s monsters in the “Unholy Wars” (Cooley) and left us to clear the garbage. This attitude perpetuates the belief by a growing number of Pakistanis that they supported the wrong superpower and that Pakistan would have been better off with the USSR borders at Torkham.

Benazir’s banal bilious blathering will ensure her electoral defeat. No Pakistani leader can give up AQ Khan to the predators. AQ is openheimer and Einstein and General Washington rolled into one for Pakistanis.

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I found this article by Ejaz Haider as particularly informative. 

A twice former prime minister needs to know the difference, very clearly, between what is necessary and what is irrelevant and must also appreciate the sensitiveness of certain issues

Ms Benazir Bhutto seems to evince more interest in Dr AQ Khan than one would advise her to. Consider.

In recent months, the first time she chose to speak about Dr Khan was at the Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington DC in the last week of September. She was quoted as saying that if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wanted to have access to Dr Khan, she would not mind the Agency quizzing him in Pakistan.

When this statement appeared in this newspaper, her party spokesman, former Senator Farhatullah Babar, reacted by saying that she had been misquoted. The very next day, again at the MEI in Washington at a press meet where this scribe was also present, Ms Bhutto, in answer to a question about her earlier statement and the rebuttal by her party, chose to rebut her party’s rebuttal. That flip-flop was also carried in this and other newspapers.

Now, one newspaper, reporting her Thursday meeting with Arab ambassadors has quoted her as holding out the promise again that if the IAEA asked for access to Dr Khan, she would not oppose it.

Here’s the question: has the IAEA given any indication to Ms Bhutto that it wants to interrogate Dr Khan? Not possible, simply because Ms Bhutto has no official position right now and if the IAEA is dealing with someone, it has to be the current government. It must be noted that such dealings have nothing to do with the internal question over the legitimacy or otherwise of any government. Until such time that a government is in place, foreign governments and organisations have to deal with it even if such a government is unpopular at home.

Here’s the second question then: if it is highly unlikely that the IAEA has approached Ms Bhutto on this issue, why might she be holding forth on it?

Let’s eschew the element of conspiracy in this scenario and assume that Ms Bhutto is doing so because she has an opinion on it and not because she has been put up to the task of raking up the ghost of Khan by some external actor. What is the basis of her opinion? Does she or her party have the expertise to deal with a question that possibly cannot be – or should not be – be a priority, involved as she is in trying to find political space for herself in a situation fraught with uncertainty?

The answer to this is certain: no.

In fact, going by what Feisal Naqvi wrote in these pages about the absence from the PPP manifesto of any reference to Webcop (Workers and Employers Bilateral Council of Pakistan) (“The PPP manifesto”, Daily Times, December 4) – even though the party boasts its concern for and expertise in labour laws and conditions, it is doubtful that either Ms Bhutto or the PPP could win an IAEA quiz on the full spectrum of nuclear issues or the body of international laws and treaties covering the entire range of nuclear-related activities.

Such being the case, a few observations are in order.

First, some aspects of national security should remain non-partisan. Pakistan’s nuclear programme and anything that may threaten it falls in that category.

Two, the government has so far handled the Khan affair as best as it could, based on a two-pronged strategy: it has raised the comfort level of concerned foreign governments and organisations and at the same time drawn its red lines which no external actor can cross – IAEA too falls in the latter category. This has not been easy but it has been done.

Third, while it makes no sense to condone what Dr Khan and his associates did since their actions threatened Pakistan’s national security, let us not lose sight of the fact that Khan did not break any law while doing what he did. This is why even the IAEA could not come up with a legal case against him. Let me explain: Pakistan is not a party to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. That treaty’s force was based on three things – its legality, the normative standard it sought to establish and the coercion it could bring to bear on recalcitrant states on the basis both of the legal and the normative.

Pakistan, in developing its nuclear potential, broke no legal principle. However, it was coerced on the basis of the normative (a case very different from Iran, for instance).

Ditto for Khan. His actions, internationally, can be condemned on the basis of the normative alone. If he is legally answerable to some entity, it is the Pakistani state. And on that score he has been tried and the file on him closed.

Fourth, while Pakistan has taken a high profile position and measures in the Khan case, other governments, whose nationals were involved in the network, have singly failed for the most part to do so.

Finally, a word of advice: a twice former prime minister needs to know the difference, very clearly, between what is necessary and what is irrelevant and must also appreciate the sensitiveness of certain issues. The PPP, as a party, needs to develop some degree of expertise on both the nuclear issue as well as, if Feisal Naqvi is right, on labour laws.

Ejaz Haider is Consulting Editor of The Friday Times and Op-Ed Editor of Daily Times. He has written extensively on nuclear issues over the years. He can be reached at sapper@dailytimes.com.pk

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INSIGHT: Here’s a cue on A.Q. Khan —Ejaz Haider

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