I'm not sure if Bernie Sanders will be able to change things either, given that many of the things you're talking about require approval of the Congress.
Wouldn't it make more sense to bring back the jobs, if they're being done by robots anyway ? Is this because of a lack of "manufacturing environment" ? Environmental regulations ?
I think the issue with taking China upto task for said alleged manipulation, is that in this case you'll end up with a full fledged currency war.
China starts dumping US bonds and USD will crash. I'm not sure how big a pyrrhic victory this'd be.
Apparently many more Bengalis died during WWII than the Jews. And this when we were supposedly "allies". The British were just as inhuman as the Nazis.
Indeed, many people are thankful to Hitler precisely because his war-mongering weakened Britain. You'll then find Hinduphobes turn this around by accusing Indians (read, Hindus) of anti-semitism! Wendy Doniger in her tome on "alternate" history makes this very claim.
Ironically, India is the only country in the World where the Jews (and the Zoarastrians, Syrian Christians...) were harboured unpersecuted for centuries before they migrated to Israel.
Agreed. It's actually much worse, because the ruling native elite in India think of themselves as being more related to the British culturally than to India itself!
This kind of mind-warping can only happen in the land of the Yoga :D
I'm actually sad that India had more academic achievements in early 20th century British India than in the latter part under the "Republic". Famines did decrease though, and that's arguably more important.
Oh come on. The issues that are constantly being dredged out by NyT and Wpost, tend predominantly to be endemic to North India. Why ? Because the governance in North India has historically been in a much worse state and consequently its economic situation is much worse than that of the South.
The public schools in India are in a pathetic state, they can't get a degree from a university in their own mother tongues. In the rare case that they do, they never get a job...
This suggests that poverty brings many social problems. It also suggests that governance is a big part of the problem.
Colonialism should also be assigned a big part of the blame, since such egregious an aberration does leave a very deep scar on the society.
Indeed Angus Madison notes how India's GDP fell from 25% of World's GDP to ~1-2% in less than 2 centuries of British rule. The scorched-earth policies which economically destroyed foundries to textiles, which prevented mechanization, which destroyed widespread schooling & killed off scholarly traditions, which left many of the Jati's economically weakened, which killed of millions in famines...
The irony is that the fears of Luddites came true in India & China (with military help of course).
You have a very shallow understanding of societies (and arguably of history too). This goes back to my comment about class war - the anglicized urbanites have no tangible connection or understanding of "Bharata", the poor disenfranchised India.
The Indian state inherited from the British of course. I don't know if there is a conscious effort in this regard, but I'm convinced that it has been continuously waging class war against the non-Anglicized citizenry (for obvious reasons).
The reluctance to tackle entreched political forces who make up the middle men means that farmers end up getting about 10% of what is paid by the end consumer. This is a tragedy.
The reason you don't hear much on this is because English media doesn't really have any rural correspondents.
This is a area ripe for bringing in disruptive technologies. I don't know if there are startups working on this. I think MSR India has something on the political disenfranchisement front, and there some startups doing micro-credit.
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