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[1] From: viji <viji123@yahoo.com Date: Thu Jul 28, 2005 Subject: Why India Will By-Pass China Why India Will By-Pass China By Dick Morris FrontPageMagazine. com July 21, 2005 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp? ID=18849 China has replaced the Soviet Union in our lexicon of villains, and the age-old American preoccupation with the growth of this Asian giant has metastasized into full-fledged paranoia. But the truth is much more sanguine. India, not China, is the coming giant of the 21st century. And India, unlike China, has no history of imperialism or inclination to global domination. This year, for the first time, India passed China in economic growth. Its gross domestic product (GDP) shot up by more than 8 percent and now amounts to more than $3,000 per capita, on a purchasing-power- parity basis. China's GDP, about $5,000 per capita, is still larger, but not for long. The key to China's coming failure and India's growing success is Bejing's dependence on manufacturing exports for its wealth and New Delhi's focus on its service sector. China exports more than $500 billion of products to the rest of the world, including more than $125 billion to the United States (we sell China only $25 billion each year ??” this is not a typo). Because of its low-wage economy and massive manpower, China can undercut the rest of the world in labor costs and produce goods for less than anybody else can. But this race to the bottom of the global economy will be won not by the lowest-wage economy but by robots. In the coming decade, the growth of robotics will end most manufacturing employment. Manufacturing will go the way of farming ??” a few percentage points of the global work force will produce all our products, just as it now grows the bulk of our food. China's impoverished workers will lose out to American and Japanese robots, and the source of its economic growth with likely wither in the coming decades. India assured its future power by switching away from the socialist economic model in the early '90s and has moved closer to a free- market system each year since. With the fall of the state-oriented Congress Party, the government has pushed free-market economics ever more forcefully. India's economy is firmly rooted in the service sector. Almost half of its GDP comes from services, spurred by almost $4 billion of investment by American companies. Because of its English fluency, India is in a position to tap into the growth of the U. S. and U. K. economies and to provide low-cost, high-quality services, particularly to the high-tech market. Try calling any computer help line and listen to the accent on the other end of the phone. English will trump Chinese as the language of the global economy, and services will exceed manufacturing in the information age. India, not China, is equipped to exploit both of these developments to fuel its rapid progress. India's middle class, now numbering more than 300 million people, will develop purchasing power to sustain rapid growth from its internal market in the near future. And India is not imperialistic. It has never focused on aggrandizement or gaining regional power. With the visit of India's prime minister to the White House, we should focus on its increasing ascendancy and celebrate the fact that we will, indeed, have to deal with an Asian giant, but it won't be China. The huge state sector that weighs down the Chinese economy, the lack of English fluency and the communist aversion to permitting free access to the flow of global information all militate against its following the Indian model. India will likely make a great global partner for the United States. In a recent Pew research survey, Indians expressed warm feelings for the United States and gave us a positive rating relatively unique in the world. A recent book, The Anglosphere Challenge by James C. Bennett, stresses the pivotal nature of English fluency in the information-age economy to come. The growing role of India is testament to that observation. ---------------------------------------- [2] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Jul 28, 2005 Subject: Indian Muslims of America present memorandum to Indian Prime Minister THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN MUSLIMS OF AMERICA Indian Muslims of America present memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh Press Release / 19 July 2005: Text of memorandum to the honorable Prime Minister of India A very warm welcome and greetings to you Mr Prime Minister, on your state visit to U.S., from 150,000 Indian-American Muslims. We congratulate you and the UPA Indian government on your completing a very successful one year. Indeed your government has brought good progress and improvement in several key areas, namely: economic development, communal harmony, law and order, international relations - including relations with U.S. As people of Indian origin it makes us very happy that India is making good over-all progress and is now respected the world over for its achievements. We thank you: We thank you for taking meaningful steps in several key areas that are important to the welfare of the Muslim community, namely: (a) Revocation of the dreaded Indian law called the Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Act, which was very discriminatory towards the Muslim community; (b) Initiating a roll back of several undesirable changes in school text books, that were defamatory of the history of the Indian Muslims, and that were implemented by the National Council for Education - Review of Textbooks (NCERT) in the last few years; (c) Approving a policy to implement 50% reservation in seats for Muslim students at Aligarh Muslim University. We request speedy action: We request your favorable action on the following key problems/issues: (a) The overall socio-economic condition of Muslims in India continues to be very bad; with about half of them living below poverty line, and more than half being very backward in education. We request you to implement reservation for Muslims in professional education institutions, which can enable them to obtain employment. We request you to implement reservation for Muslims in government and public sector jobs. (b) Three years after the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat, no action has yet been taken against the culprits. We request that you implement an enquiry by a retired Supreme Court judge into the said carnage, and institute speedy trials for the culprits, including responsible senior officials of Gujarat government, in fast-track courts. Many victims are still in much need of rehabilitation and financial assistance so that they can stand on their own feet. Kindly provide for that as soon as possible. (c) The proportion of Muslims in the Indian police and armed services is less than 1%. We request you to implement a program to substantially increase the recruitment of Muslims in these government services. (d) The number of Urdu language teachers in Urdu speaking parts of India is abysmally low. That is causing a large number of Muslim youth to loose their distinct heritage. We request you to implement a program to impart basic Urdu literacy to these students. (e) The program of national integration between the religiously and ethnically diverse population of India, needs much more governmental emphasis, investment of physical and manpower resources, throughout India. We request you to significantly increase the budget, programs and authority of the National Integration Council. Sd/- Kaleem Kawaja President THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN MUSLIMS OF AMERICA PO Box 10654, Silver Spring, MD 20914 USA; Tel. ++1-410 730 5456; Email: kawaja@... ?« ------------------------------------------------ [3] From: dnrad1 <dnrad1@sancharnet.in Date: Wed Jul 27, 2005 Subject: FLOOD AFFECTEDS FACES RUTHLESS SLUM DEMOLITION, IN BARODA FLOOD AFFECTEDS FACES RUTHLESS SLUM DEMOLITION, IN BARODA The mind is yet to be free from the deluge caused by the water loggingin Gujarat and more so, in Baroda, where we all are engaged in relief activities. The London blast, Ayodhya, deluge in Maharashtra, Mumbai, killing of innocent teenagers in Kashmir by Military, all are bogging our minds one after another. Of all these the scenes of brutal attack of police on the Honda workers is blowing the mind. Always the poor workers are the worst victims. Assurances are given by the Governments that it will not affect Japan's FDI in India. To keep FDI flow unhindered, the common people have to suffer in the name of development The plight of the flood-affected people in Gujarat tells the same story. The fund from World Bank- ADB- IMF etc must not stop for the so-called vibrant Gujarat, is the dictum of Modi's Govt... The impoverishment of the people caused by the water logging matters least. This very attitude is reflected everywhere and more so on slums demolition. The media attention on Gujarat flood has taken a back seat long back. Freed from the scrutiny of the media the Govt. of Gujarat and it's machinery are again showing their true colours. The flood affected people are yet to come out of the shock and despair. However, the Baroda Municipality Corporation headed by BJP has started the demolition drive ruthlessly. During the hot summer, the demolition drive was going on through out the State. The unexpected rain and the water logging on unprecedented scale the wiping out the rest of belongings of the people. The Govt. of Gujarat faced criticism from all quarters due to water logging which was the result of faulty plannings of the so called development hungry Gujarat Govt. Nevertheless the Gujarat Govt. is trying to project itself as the Model State in the country and derive maximum loans and aids from World Bank- ADB and other financial bodies. The high profiled Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) itself proved to be a disaster. The Modi's Govt. of Gujarat always tries to discover inspiration from President Bush .Bush's policy of rationalization is the credo of Modi's Govt. The international events of terrorism have always provided the excellent to pportunities to the Sangha Parivar and the Govt. here in Gujarat to divert the mind of the people from the people's issues... So the vital questions of flood relief has been totally sidelined. Many reasons were diagnosed for the water logging in the city of Baroda. Twenty ponds were dumped to construct houses. The River Viswamitri has become the dumping place of debris and chemical affluent, the drains were dumped to widen the roads, and the walls were erected hither and thither. In a nutshell, the natural flow of rainwater was obstructed and a scant attention was paid to the ecosystem. The mad urbanization has also given birth to the slums in the city. Often these spurting of slums are promoted by the people in ruling parties. Here it needless to explain the economics, social reasons of development of slums. But it can be said that the economic insecurity, unemployment will breed more spurting of slums. It is inevitable in the era of so-called globalisation and liberisation of economics, where the poor is the worst sufferer. Obstruction of natural flow of water is the cause of water logging. Therefore, the Govt. Gujarat and the Municipality Corporation of Baroda found an easiest scapegoat, the slum dwellers. Now the slum dwellers of BHUKEE- River. are targeted for demolition. Ironically, they got the notice of the evacuation just after the flood. when the part of the city was still under water. The house holds utensils; articles, food stocks were washed away, and destroyed. The distribution of the cash doles is not only suffering inefficiency but also full of corruption, and discrimination. The people are thronging daily to the Collectors office and the Municipality offices in numbers. The aggrieved people are hackling their municipal corporators. The infuriated hackled BJP corporators ransacked the pipelines electric lines with the help of the bulldozer to teach the people a lesson. The people are scared. All are the copycats of Narendra Modi, the C. M. The discontent of the people is fuming The concerned citizens have come forward to take up the case of the affected people. The concerned citizens are themselves the victims of the water logging and are yet to mend their own loses. They have opened a Complain Cell in front of the Collectors office. Earlier they have met the visiting Central team and submitted a memorandum. Again, they met the Collector. A Peoples Hearing will be held on 3rd. of August. The people are just trying to come out to assert themselves. Both the State Govt. and the Municipality authority choose this hour of catastrophe to harass the people and demoralize them. Obviously, no builders have been booked for dumping the ponds, river Viswamitri, blocking the natural flow of rainwater, wrong construction of Express Highways, National High ways, thousands of check dams, Narmada Canals, Railway tracks, erections of walls etc. This reminds the attitude of the Kandla Port Trust authority during the Kandla Cyclone. The KPT did not warn the workers staying in the slums supposed to be the land of the KPT. Its motive was to see the workers colony washed away by tidal waves such that the KPT reoccupy the land.(This very fact was brought to the notice by me). The calamities not only provide the excellent opportunities of more business to the Govt. and its lackeys but also are quick to take all anti- people measures when people are grossly engaged in arranging their broken house. When the concerned citizens met the Collector of Baroda, he expressed his inability to stop the demolition. He said the steps are taken as per the decision of the Mayor and the elected body of Baroda Municipality Corporation. Fax messages are sent to Governor, Chief Minister, Other higher officials, NHRC etc. Frantic attempts are taken to prevent the demolition. Now there is water logging in Mumbai. It seems it has met the same fate as of Baroda and giving the golden opportunities to the Modi Govt. to rationalize the man made calamities that deluged the half of Gujarat State affecting two crore of people. In absence of a united people action or movement, the Govt. and it's machineries are able to take aggressive measures on the people and rationalization their action in the name of development of the State. The sectarian measures based on castes, community, groups, and regions have given the scope to the Govt. and it's administrations to take these kinds of inhuman steps. Without a united peoples movements it is not possible to check the onslaught of the Govt. on the people, which is taking all its inspiration from United State's style of administration, i. e. suppressions and persuasions, a fascist method. Dwarika Nath Rath D-27-7-05 |
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