On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote: > [1] http://www.newsweek.com/id/228843 > > The U.S., > with 308 million people, has 50 states; India, with 1.17 billion > people, currently has only 28. Some of these are massive: the biggest > state, Uttar Pradesh, has more than 175 million people, which would > make it the world's sixth most populous country. These giant states > find it difficult to respond quickly to the needs of their remote > regions.
India's size is about a third of the United States'. When looked at in terms of geographic size, 28 states seem too many. Thaths -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
