India

( )Two duelling narratives CO

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, ’ , .India it s been observed is the story of two duelling narratives

, , : , , One as you see here is the Indian tiger seven eight eight and a half percent annual average

, , - , growth in gross domestic product the Bangalore miracle world class IT frms a country with

... great engineering and managerial talent and a highly entrepreneurial spirit among among its

.citizens

. 800 But the other narrative is the face of poverty The World Bank estimates that about million

, - ’ - - - people two thirds of India s population lives below the two dollar a day poverty line and

, 400 , .more than half of them over million people survive on less than one dollar a day

: The positive Indian story a country that now even has its own space program at the cost of

, 69 , about one and a quarter billion dollars a year Indian billionaires now on the Forbes list and

300 a very strong emerging middle class that numbers about million people and is growing at

, the rate of forty to seventy million people a year which is unprecedented and remarkable in

.history

’ , , Again so that s one picture and then unfortunately the picture of Indian poverty this slum in

. ’ ’ Delhi The India that s home to fully one third of the world s poor and ranks very low on

, , measures of inequality or very high rather malnutrition among children and a variety of other

.ways that we gauge poverty