Can the world’s largest democracy leapfrog to the world’s third largest economy without tearing out the heart of its broken culture?
The Chinese have a creative perspective.
Why did India earlier have the best social indicators in South Asia; yet, today, is second last, just ahead of Pakistan?
Does Bangladesh score above India, on South Asian social indicators, because Bangldeshi women are more involved with their economy than Indian women?
Why is there pervasive gender apartheid in India?
Despite the secularization of marriage & restricting marriage to consenting adults above 18 years old through the Special Marriage Act, 1954 & the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1976, why is the prevalence of child marriage rampant in rural India?
What drives Indians to bargain to the last paisa when going marketing from vegetable & grocery street vendors?
Why do we Indians buy brands without batting an eye-lid; but, to shell out Rs 100 to alter & right size branded clothing, we feel the pinch & bargain like there's no tomorrow?
What pleasure do we get in beating down the price of cobblers, shoe shiners, pen sellers, plumbers, electricians & house painters, when we gleefully fork out the list price for Shanzhai Burberry or Versace?
Why does Mother India treat her women as second class citizens?
Who is responsible for the 50,000 documented cases of female foeticide per year in India that occur after sex-determination tests?
Why did the wife Makhan Singh, the man who beat Milkha Singh & won Asian Games gold, have to sell all his medals to make ends meet?
Why do we recognize the actress Priyanka Chopra, who plays Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte, Mary Kom? Hailing from the Manipuri Kom tribe? Even though M.C. Mary Kom is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion & a member of the Rajya Sabha?
Why do women in India have to hold their bladders upto 13 hours due to lack of toilets?
Was Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh exempted from relieving himself against a school wall flanked by his security guards carrying automatic weapons?
Is there a better way for Indian Railways to dispose of human excreta, other than depositing it directly on the tracks?
Has the holy Ganges river, the sixth most polluted river in the world, made the Ganga, the river from hell?
Why is only 13% of India’s sewage is treated?
Why does untreated sewage still exacerbating Indian water-borne diseases leading to 40% of the world’s malnourished children: 60 million kids, in India?
Why do 74% of young Indians prefer an arranged marriage over a free, personal choice marriage?
And the head is held high?
Is India awakening?
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore.
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Wow... that's a powerful post @nigelmarkdias; hard to know how to respond, aside from saying I had heard many of these things as "rumors," but's pretty amazing to see this all written together like this.
In India-- or elsewhere-- established systems strongly push against change. And right now, change in Asia is happening very quickly... and technology and development is moving many times faster than social and psychological development.
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Thank you, @denmarkguy
From the Indian diaspora in Kuwait.
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Nowadays, its become a fashion to defame India by so called secular /comi people due to self motives, and that too this author is damaging the country's image by indicating some pretty issues in social media. As per my view, India is a moderate country where everyone can be accommodated easily. Off course, there will be some issues which are quite common in any developing/developed country.
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Pretty issues?
Ah, @mnrdev, India does not need protection against defamation. What it needs is rational, honest discussion to identify & solve problems. Argument by innuendo is useful for vote-bank politics: fortunately Indians have long developed out of that.
Kindly review the self motives that you allude to & remove your downvote:
Where words come out from the depths of truth.
Where the world has not been broken by fragments into narrow domestic walls.
Where words come out from the depth of truth.
Where the clear stream of reason....
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A bold article there. Love it
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Thank you, Vasu
Followed you, @vasukandari
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Such a painful truth. one that baffles me the most is the absence of toilet for over 60℅ of the Indian citizens.
I believed that the first step in dealing with our problem is believing that we have it in the first place. by the moment the whole Indians will come to the realization of this truth. Change will then take place. You did an awesome job by breaking the stereotype and stating the facts.
Take care!
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Thank you, @tochi
Followed you, Ann
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I don't subscribe your views which you have been published with western interest. Please don't look form commi angle to defame some body to gain some thing. What is the motive behind you to give such bad image for one of the oldest country in the world.
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Thank you for your response, @mnrdev.
Please also see my rebuttal of the pretty issues, that you raised.
Innuendo? @mnrdev
Ad hominem? @mnrdev
The bad image does not come from identifying what needs to be changed & advocating hope for solutions to issues, but from a self-righteous ancient civilisation, victim stance. @mnrdev
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