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

[Jyotirmoy Sharma]

India's poverty is western media's obsession( whether good or bad is
debatable ).
In Aus, whenever there is anything shown on India, it will be mostly about
slums, call centres, riots etc. There will never be any report on India's
positives - be it the growing middle class, good progress in space
technology etc. Maybe it is one way of telling the local population as to
how priviledged they are. Coverage of local issues which make them look bad
is sometimes relegated to the background.
As an example of media bias, most of the IPL matches were shown live on free
to air channels here. However, they cut the opening and closing ceremony.
Maybe that would have raised the question, "How could a poor country be
capable of such pomp and flamboyance?"

JS




On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Umesh
> >
> > cmahanta at charter.net wrote: This page was sent to you by:
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> > The Good Life of Gurgaon
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/world/asia/09gated.html?ex=1213588800&en=223c319279fc0dfc&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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