India saw the fastest rise in inequality of all major world regions between 1980 and 2016, and 55% of the country’s income share is in the hands of the wealthiest 10%.
Gujarat is a classic case of a corporate-led development model which involves increasing prosperity for the rich, but very little benefit of growth trickles down to the poor.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Itna aasaan nahin hai, Bhai Saheb, varna ab tak ho gaya hota. When I saw the heading, thought it was about the good old yarn of bringing home the prodigal sons, stuffing a million and a half into each surprised account. Removing poverty – creating wealth if that is the phrase the columnist prefers – is a decades long enterprise, the trek China and many countries to our east have essayed. It requires both hard work and the good economic advice that comes from institutions such as Harvard. 1991 showed the way forward, but our journey since then has been hesitant, halting, half hearted. Don’t expect these big changes to come from the glib slogans that underpin the massive marketing blitz that election campaigns have become. Else Wizcraft could have run India.
It is really a new path that can make Indians prosperous.
Itna aasaan nahin hai, Bhai Saheb, varna ab tak ho gaya hota. When I saw the heading, thought it was about the good old yarn of bringing home the prodigal sons, stuffing a million and a half into each surprised account. Removing poverty – creating wealth if that is the phrase the columnist prefers – is a decades long enterprise, the trek China and many countries to our east have essayed. It requires both hard work and the good economic advice that comes from institutions such as Harvard. 1991 showed the way forward, but our journey since then has been hesitant, halting, half hearted. Don’t expect these big changes to come from the glib slogans that underpin the massive marketing blitz that election campaigns have become. Else Wizcraft could have run India.