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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services' With Foreword by Gen SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, ADC (retd) former Chief of Indian Army Staff and Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh UT Copies now available at: GOA: Literati (2277740), Other India (2263306), Broadway (6647038), Mandovi (2427904), Noel DSilva & Associates (9823120454 / 9096781714), Confidant / Golden Heart Emp (2732450), David & Co (2730326), Vardaan (9527463684) SERV / RETD Def Offrs in Goa: O/o Sainik Co-op Hse Bldg Sty, Def Col, Porvorim (2417288) MUMBAI: David & Co (22019010) PUNE: Manneys (26131683), Popular (25678327) BENGALURU: Narayan (22865800) DELHI: Ritana (24617278) ONLINE (worldwide delivery): http://www.ritanabooks.com, http://goa1556.goa-india.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poverty in India has declined over the last four decades. The percentage of population living below the poverty line in 1974 in rural and urban areas was 56% and 49%, respectively. In 1994 it was 37% and 32%, respectively. Today it is less than 27% and 23%, respectively. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 12/28/10, Carvalho <elisabeth_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > India is poorer today than it was 20 > years ago. It has more poor people than the > whole of Africa combined. It doesn't reduce its poverty; it > just redistributes > it. If you are a relatively prosperous state, rest assured > in 50 years time, you > will become another slum of India. Then we will have movies > > and documentaries made telling us how fulfilling slum > life is and how organic > living in one of these human sewers can be. > > If anyone thinks I am joking and that it won't happen to > Goa, I urge them to > visit Mangor hill of Vasco. What was once the abode of > proud Vasco Gaunkaris is > now a slum. In the morning, one can wake up to the > delicious smell of human > sewage wafting through the air as one makes their way to > white-washed Church and > children filtering in to schools, holding on to the last > vestiage of a civilised > life. Our home is now on the pheriphery of slumville. > Beyond our home lies acres > and acres of usurped communidade land turned into shanties. > Proper Vascoites > cannot afford to buy land. They move out of Vasco and into > some tiny flat. > > This is what India contributes. > > Best, > Selma > > > >