IF likes of P Mishra are providing that vigil only: May his tribe increase!
Whistleblowing, self-criticism ,grumbling,dissidence,negative feedbacks coming in from intelligent people ---are invaluable freebies .Democracy is all about these.
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From: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: xourov pathok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] positives vs negatives
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 10:07:07 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Xourov,Why did you pick only a part of my email? The essence of what you wrote below was in the second part of my email. Did you read that part differently than I intended to convey?I'd like you to know that I and many others like me do not believe that all is well in India. Some people are trying hard in India and they are seeing fruits of their labor. So why try to pull them down? I agree the Haves in India must constantly work to lift the living standard of the Have-nots if they want to maintain the pace of their achievement and live in India. Like I said if the likes of P Mishra are providing that vigil only, I have no complaint.
Dilipda
xourov pathok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:+ Pankaj Mishra's observations are not wrong but he
is
+ emphasizing the negatives while playing down the
+ positives.
Pankaj Mishra does not emphasize the negatives, but
restores parity in the discussion. The negatives are
never mentioned, which is what he is doing.
+ By playing with words no one can deny the fact that
+ Indian economy has improved. It is also a fact that
+ the wealth made in India is not well distributed.
+ Yes there is stark poverty in India but it is not
+ as bad as it was in the fifties and sixties.
Though absolute poverty seems to have decreased, that
alone does not speak of the problems today. By
emphasizing only on the positives, one runs the risk
of forgetting the other side and the associated risks
involved. For example, farmers are commiting
suicides, mostly due to debt and a lack of a viable
agricultural policy. Manmohan Singh recently visited
the areas and listened to the farmers. There seems to
be an increasing problem of infant malnutrition and
moratality in Maharastra in the tribal areas. Poverty
data alone will not be able to catch these problems.
In many other areas, as the government moves away from
direct economic policies, the ultra-leftists have
grown. The government now views this solely as a
security issue, and local governments like the one is
Jharkhand now wants to buy helicopter gunships to kill
the naxalites! Besides forming village militia. From
the experience in the northeast I hope you realise
what this means-- a veritable civil war!
The problems of regional disparity is all the more
fearsome, and should be the focus of attention on
Assamnet. If you looked at the per capita income over
the years, you will see that whereas the average India
index saw a rapid rise in the 1980s, the Assam index
has not kept pace. Both have risen, of course, but
the widening gap is a concern, especially since
Assam's was higher than the India average soon after
Independence.
(http://www.undp.org.in/hdrc/shdr/assam/Chp2.pdf page
25).
From the point of view of Assam, it is useless to
focus on the positives in the Indian economy because
de-regulation has not resulted in much benefit for the
state. Assam is very unlikely to benefit from a
growing software industry, which is already on
display. The economy is still a captive of government
policies today. The implosion of the tea industry
would result in a very big problem, which will easily
take on ethnic colors. If the sea level increases due
to environmental reasons and inundates the coastal
regions of Bangladesh, you can imagine how it would
impact the politics and the demographics in Assam.
Assam still does not have viable indigenous industries
that can provide employment for the locals, which will
require investment in infrastructure. As India
develops as a service economy, what happens to the
northeast? Let alone Assam having access to markets
for indigenous products, it is itself a captive market
for mainstream Indian products.
xourov
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