coolieno99
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Let's make it simple and straightforward.
India is not a 3rd World country. It's a 4th World country.
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India is not a 3rd World country. It's a 4th World country.
Is that why they welcomed the British with little to no resistance when India was collected altogether into a single unified state....interesting
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Fri, November 19, 2021, 2:48 AM
Delhi grappling with heavy smog
A view of heavy smog during the cold winter morning In Ajmer, Rajasthan, India On November 17, 2021. The pollution levels recorded in several cities of Rajasthan this year on Diwali was the highest in the last three years. The pollution levels in Jaipur and Jodhpur were recorded three times higher than normal. Ajmer recorded twice the pollution than normal days. As per the Health Department of Rajasthan, people suffering from asthma, respiratory diseases, and post covid symptoms are advised to take extreme precautions till the pollution level comes back to normal. The level of pollution this year has reached the highest mark as compared to the last two years. Photo by Himanshu Sharma/ABACAPRESS.COMFor the Indian capital of Delhi, it's that smoggy time of the year again.
Air pollution levels have soared and thick, heavy, grey smog has enveloped the entire city once again.
Indian authorities were forced to close schools indefinitely on Wednesday, after reports of a sharp increase in the number of children with breathing problems.
The city's air quality index has fallen into the "very poor" category, prompting the Indian Supreme Court to call for a city-wide lockdown and a halt to all non-essential travel by road.
The New Delhi government officials said they're "open to the idea" of instituting a lockdown but they believe it will have "limited impact" unless neighbouring states join in.
Delhi is grappling with pollution levels 20 times higher than the levels deemed healthy by the World Health Organization.
Delhi residents are reporting respiratory difficulties, problems with vision, nausea and lethargy from breathing in the toxic air. Hospitals have also confirmed that there's an increase in admissions related to cardiac and respiratory issues.
To make matters worse, toxic chemicals from industries and factories have heavily polluted India's sacred Yamuna River. A stretch of the river has been blanketed in thick white snow-like foam.
Despite signficant health risks, devotees immersed themselves in the river to take a holy dip and pray during the Hindu festival of Chhath Puja.
“Delhi is full of pollution but still people’s lives are going on. Like that, we will also do our prayers,” Rajendra Mahto, a devotee who was celebrating the festival in the river told the
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Brazil GDP per Capita: 8000
India GDP per Capita: 1800 (1/4 Brazil)
Afghanistan GDP per Capita: 600 (1/3 India)
Well done india, if Covid doesn't get them, the toxic smog will.
@Strangelove bro we have to thank the Himalayas mountain range for blocking those dangerous fumes.
What Bloomberg is doing, true to its pro capitalism agenda, is trying to convince the audience that Indian government has not embraced capitalism and free market as much as western/ foreign companies want. They want India to optimize itself to be capitalism and investment friendly ( that is, forget environmental concerns, workers rights, regulations, unionism, taxation, oversight, public interest etc).
Also, that Indian dotard who said China is "public enemy no 1" should show the numbers. Has he asked most (if not all) the people in the world about their view of China? India is surrounded by countries that increasingly doesn't like India.
It is true that the West wants India to be opened not just for investments, but also for exploitation. But there is also one more message from the West to India in this Bloomberg video: Don't become the next China. We mean it literally. What does this actually mean for India? Its this:
1) Don't learn technologies from the West and start competing with them.
2) Stay a poor and dependent country. India must become the source of cheap, exploitable labour for the West, perpetually. India must be exploited by the big Western corporations, in perpetuity. India's environment must be exploited by West.
3) Be a good dog to the West. Don't bother about national interests.
4) China is not a good example for India. Don't follow them. Also, don't be friends with them.
India today is moving mostly in the direction that the West wants them to. But not 100% yet, their Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign is a serious roadblock. So India is neither here nor there. Its in no man's land. Alienating China more and more, who could truly help it grow (there is SK and Japan, but even they are helpless to help with India's growth ambitions). The West still cannot fully trust them because they are still too independent for their liking.
So India cannot get the best of both the East and West. India don't have the resources yet to rise on its own. Hence, there will be no economic miracle for India. It'll be more of just the same for decades to come.
@Sardaukar20 and that my friend is why India is poor and will remain poor, Indecisiveness kills. Half hearted effort produce failure.
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