In a letter which appeared in Boston Globe two decades ago in response to an editorial about the rising incidence of dowry deaths in India, I wrote that the editorial correctly notes that they are increasing in number and usually involve demands for Western-style consumer goods -- cars, VCRs, etc. -- but that this rise in dowry deaths is due to contact with the West. I said: 'It was to ward off evils such as consumerism that as recently as the turn of the century travel by Indians to foreign lands was considered polluting and was forbidden. Both the young Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were required to do penance and undergo purification before being allowed back into society on their return from England, though only Gandhi complied. While Gandhi led a mass movement to shun Western goods, which he ritually burned in bonfires, the more modern Nehru pushed India toward Western-style industrialism and materialism.' I continued 'In India's dowry deaths the in-laws become involved because of the family system but my guess is that, overall, violence -- against women, against society -- exists at considerably higher levels in the modern West. The flames that burn India's brides are the same that burned Kuwaiti oil wells and Iraqi children and they originate in the West.' For more see 'How India's Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More' in my blog titled 'Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U. S.' that can be found by a Yahoo/Google search with the title. Satish Chandra
I doubt whether our PM is a good Economist :) Someone should check his certificates & grades. He has been applying a wrong theory of rate hikes 13 times and still unable to prove that inflation will be controlled!!
The fact of the matter is Congress is trying to sell our Country. Lets not fool ourselves with the "Innocent face of our PM"...One day we will suddenly realize that "Yeh bhola sab ko choona laga k chala gaya"!!
