[Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

[Ram Sarangapani]

C'da thanks for the article, its a good article (though not an eye
opener) and Umesh, you raise some good points.

One is left wondering which is worse, a country that can possibily afford to
eradicate poverty within its boundaries, or a country that flaunts
its riches that it can ill afford to. :)

--Ram


On 6/8/08, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In Washington DC and New York  the contrast may not be so obvious
> but  Harlem  is a US slum near the riches of Manhattan.  People do beg
> in  downtown DC. DC is the crime capital of the US. Does that  make Bill
> Gates or  Bill Clinton  apologetic  or for that
> matter  Thomas  Friedman  or  Al Gore  who stay  in  multimillion dollar
> homes and  buy  carbon credits.
>
> Poverty is relative -unless someone is dying of hunger. For sickness look
> at PG county govt hospitals - 10 miles from White House which as per a local
> College Park resident ( I haven't been there) where patients sit in
> corridors for days without treatment.
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> Umesh
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> The Good Life of Gurgaon
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> INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | June 9, 2008
> Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums
> By SOMINI SENGUPTA
> Gated communities have emerged in India, giving its growing
> upper-middle-class giving Western amenities, along with maids and chauffeurs
> who live in nearby slums.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/world/asia/09gated.html?ex=1213588800&en=223c319279fc0dfc&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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