Bangalore: The Deccan Herald on June 24, 2010, published two wonderful reports side by side: one quoting an UN official saying India has failed to fulfil its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) pledge to reduce by half its extreme poverty by the year 2015. The report is published under the headline “Extreme poverty – still pervades India”.
The MDG does not apply to China as it abolished poverty long back.
DV proves right: In the next column, DH says “India’s rich scale new heights”, meaning the less than 15% rich are getting richer. The New York- datelined PTI report says:
“India’s population of high net worth individuals grew as much as 51% to 1.26 lakhs in 2009….”
What does the two reports read together mean? It means the over 85% of India’s poor (read SC/ST/ BC and Muslims) are getting poorer and the 15% upper castes are becoming richer at their cost.
This is what DV has been also saying.
The SC/ST/BCs (65%) plus 10% Muslims together make up 75% of the population of India. To this must be added lots of Dalit Sikhs, Dalit Christians.
Forgotten slaves of India: In DV, we have been repeatedly telling that over 85% of India’s slaves have been totally forgotten. Some among them have turned maoists and to kill them military is getting ready.
The ruling 15% upper castes mainly Brahmins, Baniyas plus upper caste shudras-have forgotten the slaves long back. The ruling class may include some Dalits and OBCs who have joined the exploiting upper castes (like the Bombay slum dog millionaire, Kalpana Saroj, the new chairperson of Kamani Tubes Limited).
Bursting roads: In our book, Development Redefined (DSA-2006, pp.86 Rs. 75), we have defined the current dangerous development strategies of the ruling class which is deliberately aimed at making them rich (read upper castes) at the expense of the Bahujans. Go to any big city, it is simply bursting. Bangalore roads have no place for cars one bigger than the other. The airports in Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad are jammed.
Does it mean the cities are getting richer? No. The rich are getting richer. The proof is Bangalore had only 300 slums 10 years ago. Today it is over 1,000.
World Bank conspiracy: The Manmohan Singh World Bank-driven zionist economic development of India will only kill this country.
Hundreds of unthinking Dalits, no doubt, have joined this dangerous “economic development” and consequently they too have become “rich”. But millions of their fellow Dalits are left out because the current ruling class “development” aims only at “individual development” and not “collective” development.
In DV, we have repeatedly said this and proved right. But alas even DV family members are not smelling the danger.
