India's middle class happens to be a very vocal and prominent population inside India and abroad. However, once it comes to their point of view regarding India's hegemonic designs to become a superpower, the same class is mostly delusional at best. Educated, middle class Indians have somehow developed an impression that their country is a rising superpower in the world. This false perception is fueled mostly by their media and the "Bollywood" film industry, but the real reason instrumental for stroking the Indian egos are the US led western designs which have a desire for India to be a counterweight to the imminent rise of China in the Asia Pacific and subsequently the world. Indians are being led to believe through fabricated economic data by the US economic monitors and their own government that they are growing even faster then China. The Indian middle class are already beating their chests and shouting victory whereas the reality is the total opposite if not a mere illusion. Famous Indian award winning economic commentator Andy Mukherjee , whilst discussing the Indian economic growth in the Reuters US edition published on June 5, 2015 stated:
India's arrogance is essentially based on these mirages of economic data upon which red flags have already been raised by the likes of Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton. The Indians are already dreaming of being the regional hegemonic power whereas the majority of their population is extremely poor and undernourished. Angus Deaton researched the poverty and inequality in India and clearly stated that Indian economic data projecting growth is vastly falsified and inequality and poverty is rampant is India, he went on to say that under the present economic system in India, the problem is only increasing.
Indian middle class prefers living in a fool's paradise with boasted chanting of "Jai Hind" while choosing to remain oblivious to their fellow country men, "Fifty per cent " of whose growth has been stunted, mostly due to malnutrition. Similarly, fifty per cent of Indian women have anemia for the same reason and fifty per cent of Indians have terrible academic underachievement.
( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/16/amartya-sen-india-dirty-fighter).
The globally respected Noble laureate Indian economist Amartya Sen stated:
Amartya Sen further states in the same article that was published in the Guardian:
The Indian middle class is busy painting flowery predictions for India's rise as a global superpower whilst the reality in India is extremely embarrassing. Even the frequently boasted claims about the Indian Military by the educated middle class Indians as a force to reckon with are as absurd as their fabricated claims of economic growth. The Indian Military power is encircled by China and Pakistan with credible nuclear deterrence and India is powerless to do anything about it. The Indian Military is not capable of taking on it's nuclear armed powerful neighbours irrespective of all the bravado by the educated classes of India. The Indian's may brag about taking on Pakistan inside its sovereign territory after the accusations they made on Pakistan of carrying out the terror attacks in Mumbai and Pathan Kot, but the possibility of any such eventuality is highly unlikely. Any misadventure by the Indian Military inside Pakistan would provoke a reaction which would ensure a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) scenario under the nuclear weapons regime in South Asia. Same holds true for their other bigger and much more powerful neighbour, China.
It is extremely necessary for the Indian bourgeois to be aware that their dreams of becoming a superpower or confronting China and rest of their enemies are extremely unrealistic and a mere illusion under the US enchantment. The Indians need to take on the almost impossible task of economic and racial inequality threatening the very fabric of their society. Their main concentration needs to be on eliminating mass and rampant hunger and poverty in India rather than pipe dreaming about regional hegemony. It is paramount to say that they have an urgent need to promote peace and avoid arrogance for ultimately peace is the only logical way forward leading to prosperity.
" India's GDP growth is now one-third a statistical mirage"
(http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/06/05/india-gdp-growth-is-one-third-statistical-illusion/)
India's arrogance is essentially based on these mirages of economic data upon which red flags have already been raised by the likes of Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton. The Indians are already dreaming of being the regional hegemonic power whereas the majority of their population is extremely poor and undernourished. Angus Deaton researched the poverty and inequality in India and clearly stated that Indian economic data projecting growth is vastly falsified and inequality and poverty is rampant is India, he went on to say that under the present economic system in India, the problem is only increasing.
Indian middle class prefers living in a fool's paradise with boasted chanting of "Jai Hind" while choosing to remain oblivious to their fellow country men, "Fifty per cent " of whose growth has been stunted, mostly due to malnutrition. Similarly, fifty per cent of Indian women have anemia for the same reason and fifty per cent of Indians have terrible academic underachievement.
( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/16/amartya-sen-india-dirty-fighter).
The globally respected Noble laureate Indian economist Amartya Sen stated:
" Half of all Indians have no toilet. In Delhi when you build a new condominium there are lots of planning requirements but none relating to the servants having toilets. It's a combination of class, caste and gender discrimination. It's absolutely shocking. Poor people have to use their ingenuity and for women that can mean only being able to relieve themselves after dark with all the safety issues that entails. This is India's defective development"
Amartya Sen further states in the same article that was published in the Guardian:
"There are reasons for India to hang its head in shame. Alongside the success, there have been gigantic failures. India will prick up its ears when comparisons with China are made, but the comparison is not just tactical. China invested in massive expansion of education and healthcare in the 70's so that by 1979, life expectancy was 68 while in India it was only 54."
The Indian middle class is busy painting flowery predictions for India's rise as a global superpower whilst the reality in India is extremely embarrassing. Even the frequently boasted claims about the Indian Military by the educated middle class Indians as a force to reckon with are as absurd as their fabricated claims of economic growth. The Indian Military power is encircled by China and Pakistan with credible nuclear deterrence and India is powerless to do anything about it. The Indian Military is not capable of taking on it's nuclear armed powerful neighbours irrespective of all the bravado by the educated classes of India. The Indian's may brag about taking on Pakistan inside its sovereign territory after the accusations they made on Pakistan of carrying out the terror attacks in Mumbai and Pathan Kot, but the possibility of any such eventuality is highly unlikely. Any misadventure by the Indian Military inside Pakistan would provoke a reaction which would ensure a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) scenario under the nuclear weapons regime in South Asia. Same holds true for their other bigger and much more powerful neighbour, China.
It is extremely necessary for the Indian bourgeois to be aware that their dreams of becoming a superpower or confronting China and rest of their enemies are extremely unrealistic and a mere illusion under the US enchantment. The Indians need to take on the almost impossible task of economic and racial inequality threatening the very fabric of their society. Their main concentration needs to be on eliminating mass and rampant hunger and poverty in India rather than pipe dreaming about regional hegemony. It is paramount to say that they have an urgent need to promote peace and avoid arrogance for ultimately peace is the only logical way forward leading to prosperity.
India is too sick at the core to nurture such lofty goals. They are in the list of worst countries to provide women safety, acute financial crisis and inherent corrupt methodologies.
ReplyDeleteExcellent sir !!! I have been closely monitoring the Indian interactions around the globe. The case of Indian growth rate being higher than China can also be explained by the much smaller volume of Indian economy in comparison with China. So 6 % growth by China in essence in terms of it's volume is much greater than 7 % Indian growth. Passionate writing !!!
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