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To: JPR who wrote (6116)	8/31/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

JPR: ItalianPutri? Is she related to SukharnoPutri of Indonesia by any chance?<g> Wow,you got too much news there for me to digest in one sitting.

To: JPR who wrote (6116)	8/31/1999 5:56:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

US prepares for possible Y2K violence : dailynews.yahoo.com Well, how about India? Since there is violence all the time anyway, it probably doesn't matter! Right? ;-)

To: JPR who wrote (6116)	8/31/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Abducted Bangladeshi boy aged 7 yrs and pakistani boy aged 8 yrs were rescued from the fun ( read nightmarish) job of camel driver. Hmmm... is it only in Pakistan and Bangladesh that children are ill-treated? Is India a heaven for children? Not so, says the following editorial from an Indian newspaper : NOT FLATTERING : This year`s United Nations Children`s Fund report, called the 'Progress of Nations` presents yet another shameful picture of the state of children in our country, as year after year various international reports and studies routinely do. The blame of course does not lie with the reports but with us only because there has been failure in the country in the provision of basic facilities of life and welfare to the people. The statistics given in the report reveal that children in India are more malnourished than those in Africa, which is generally taken to be much more backward in development. India`s record is bad in all the three parameters of children`s welfare. The under-five mortality rate for 1994 was 117 per thousand in India while it was only 19 in Sri Lanka. Only 62 per cent of children receive primary education (up to Class V) and 53 per cent of children are underweight. The corresponding figures are 88 per cent and 16 per cent for China. The statistics show how unreal our claims of progress and development are when a third of the world`s total number of malnourished children live in our country. They show that whatever economic progress has been achieved does not have individual and community welfare as important factors in it. Only in very few areas in the country, as in Kerala, has human welfare, expressed in terms of health, education, etc, taken precedence over gross figures of economic growth. Since resources are limited, their sharing should be governed by norms that lay emphasis on the promotion of the basic quality of life of the largest number of people and not on the creation of absolute wealth that is confined to the top layers of society. This is not just a moral argument for a new paradigm of development. In the long run, economic development too can sustain itself only if it is grounded on the welfare and happiness of the largest majority and on the stability of society. Poverty and backwardness are the greatest destabilising forces in an unequal society and therefore the yearly reports on our persistent failure to provide adequately for the survival and welfare of the weakest and poorest sections of our people should serve as ominous warnings.