Todays post is this recent article by Tavleen Singh... It is a good reminder of how India has moved on from meaningless slogans of garibi hatao...(and why Tavleen Singh remains one of my favourite columnists!) A brief excerpt below: ...The Congress “idea of India” envisions a country in which most people will always be poor and illiterate so that benevolent people like Sonia and Ms Roy can continue to offer “alleviation” services. What Modi offers, as he did in Varanasi last week, is not poverty alleviation but the hope of prosperity. So when he talked to the desperately poor weavers of Varanasi, he reminded them that the poorest, most illiterate Indian mother dreamed that her daughter would wear a Banarasi sari on her wedding day. This meant that the market for their saris was vast and growing, so all they needed to do was to find a way of tapping into it. He did not tell them that they should continue living in windowless hovels in dismal streets and that he would provide them with cheap food grain to make things easier. He did not tell them that he may never be able to create real jobs for their children but they would be ‘guaranteed’ 100 days of employment a year. Even at the highest minimum wage, this comes to less than Rs 30,000 a year. .... Think of this and you might find it easier to understand why the people of India rejected the Congress so brutally that it is not even in a position to give us an opposition leader in the Lok Sabha... जय हिंद, जय भारत! - शांतनु
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:22:00 +0000