[Assam] Pride and Poverty: India's amazing blending

[Manoj Das]

Hi Umesh

At one point of time we probably had more than 50% of world's poor. My
grandparents also fell in that category. That doesn't mean I'll not use
Blackberry or Laptop today and my children will not goto the best Univ in
the world.

We'll have to continue to do well in frontier technologies, Space,
Aerospace, BT, IT, Communications, Agrotech, Food processing, Healthcare,
Sports, Education, Housing, renewable energy and what not. The 1/3rd of poor
that's remaining will be pulled above PL in two three decades time.

India's achievemnts from a british colony to current contender to world
power is 6 decades is no pushover. USA has 1/5 of our population and about 9
times the land. Also it was master of own destiny for past 2.5 centuries.

I am proud of being an Indian and proud of our modest achievements.

And some poverty is necessary. Poverty makes the soul shine, like fire does
to Gold.

Cheers!

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>wrote:

> We should not glorify poverty. Just by showcasing India's poverty or
> writing about it will not make it go away. Indian needs to get
> industrialized - just like the West did --Aerospace is the most hi-tech. Why
> not get into it? For that matter why have computers and internet either when
> majority of India canot even read or write properly-- so shall we do away
> with newspapers too - and journolists too?
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> Umesh Sharma
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> --- On Wed, 11/2/09, Nava Thakuria <navathakuria at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Nava Thakuria <navathakuria at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Assam] Pride and Poverty: India's amazing blending
> To: assam at assamnet.org
> Date: Wednesday, 11 February, 2009, 12:13 AM
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> http://www.modernghana.com/news/202092/1/pride-and-poverty-indias-amazing-blending.html
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> Pride and Poverty: India's amazing blending
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> When one third of the world's poor lives in India, is it logical for New
> Delhi to go with the fascination of arms and aviation? India spends more
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> more money for the military empowerment, but ignores hopelessly the issue
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> health, where hundred thousands die due to curable diseases.
> The issues come alive as Bangalore is hoisting the 7th Biennial Aerospace
> Exhibition from February 11. The five day extravaganza, Aero India 2009, at
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> Yelahanka Air Force Base in the garden city of India has attracted around
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> Indian and international companies from 25 countries for the exhibition.
> Organized by the Ministry of Defence (GoI) and recognized as the Asia's
> largest air force exhibition, it will showcase a wide range of civil and
> military aircrafts from leading manufacturers, vendors and suppliers.
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