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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: HG who wrote (8254)10/30/2001 5:38:20 PM
From: k.ramesh  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
That is the emerging Indian view on Foreign aid?
That is the opinion of one writer in the Indian Express. I have mixed feelings about that. Yes it is okay to refuse aid with strings attached, and expectation of subservience.

But India is really about 10 countries in one. The elite and the chattering classes are almost first world colonizers themselves! What about Orissa and starvation there, just a state away from Amartya Sen the nobel prize winning 'Famine' economist? The big shots in Delhi are falling all over themselves for granting one million tons of wheat to Afghanistan in aid.
I have a similar problem in saying no to the Nike factories, what is demeaning/offensive to one person might be job opportunities to another group.
The Indian government should say no to government to government aid which is mostly puffery, but say yes to aid from developmental agencies. The better off states in India need to step up and adopt some of the really clueless states, in the process creating 'nice' bureaucratic jobs for their middle classes. <g>
Bihar the true heir to the mantle 'Afghanistan of India' is already derisively called Rabristan by its own residents on account of its illiterate Chief Minister - did not even use the money due to it to from the Centre under various schemes due to ineptness! ( do a google on Rabristan)
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