On 9/25/07, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh boy :)
This seems an accurate description of the lives of the poorest-of-the-poor. However, the socialist cliche "The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer" never seems to be tested -- it always seems to be accepted as an axiom. Are there statistics to show that the percentage of poor people in the Indian population is increasing? I don't know enough to believe in trickle-down economics or not. But in Bangalore (where I live) which has huge amounts of money flowing around more seems to be reaching the lower rungs than used to. The guy that irons my clothes, for example, recently left his mobile number with my wife "in case of emergency" [1] to use his phrase. -- b [1] What's a clothes ironing emergency? I have no idea!
