Comments on: Different Standards for Different Folks

By: Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:29:17 +0000

True. After the several times we hear of bombings in Baghdad and killings in Kashmir, we tend to flip channels on them and move on to newer news. Weeks and months of mourning in New York and now in London but not much time for those folks in Iraq. The poor pick up the dead, bury them away, shed their tears and move on.

By: Prasad Boddupalli

Prasad Boddupalli — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:50:11 +0000

NewYork incident was labelled 9/11, while the London one 7/7. In the same vein, it is quite apt to call the atrocities committed by american military-industrial complex ‘24/7′ since people are killed (on an average) every minute by american ammunition.

By: Navin

Navin — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:42:30 +0000

Atanu,

“The concerns of the rich are more important; their pain is more acute; their viewpoint is more worthy of consideration; ”

It has got to be true the other way too, the pain of the poor is less acute and their voice is too pale….

and that is why we don’t seem to hear a major outcry when on an average 40 people keep dying in Iraq each day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html

Suhit,

The problem when you say “India has to become Economically stronger” is people misinterpret the same and think that its just the GDP growth & PPP.

Nobody seems to care about economic divide, % below poverty line etc.

I am not sure if my fears are valid, but I kinda feel, in the 8+% GDP growth, lot of people are left behind untouched and a select few are growing by leaps and bounds. I feel there is a need for new methods of measuring economic growth , when a huge population country is growing at a fast pace.

By: Suhit Anantula

Suhit Anantula — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:04:02 +0000

Atanu:

I was thinking in similar lines.

here in adelaide, I talk with a Arab women whose mother is English and grew up in Qatar and England.

We find it shocking that millions of people can spare two minutes of their time for 54 dead in london but not the thousands of iraqi, afghans, Indians, and Africans (oh! I forgot the Live

Its better that India and Indians realise that the rich are more valuable than the poor. The chinese realise it and are working towards their economic developemnt.

Unless India is richer, it will not be heard. That is the hard truth.

Interestingly, the seemingly modest work that we do in Call Centers are making India known in the western world.

I had this incident in Adelaide. I was trying various jobs and landed in a call center job.

Most of the people on the phone assumed that I was calling from India and a lot of them had some not so good words for me.

The point is that we need to be economically stronger for us to be morally and righteaously stronger.

Suhit