why is india very poor ?do you think the british  are stealers or theives?
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What the hell does your question have to do with swimming and diving?
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Every time we just get away with our inefficient system by blaming just politicians. The real problem is with our democracy and not with our politicians. Who said we are not hard working?.We have no.1 intelligent work force in the world and we have all the potential to make our India 10 times better than present super power countries. Just think what is stopping us. In the false name of democracy we are fooling our selves. You can see the situation in Mumbai where whole lot of beggars in the country are flocked in the airport road with lot of slums. You blame our politicians. But maharashtra CM took initiative to remove and shift these slums elsewhere so that our country's image can be maintained. Everyone who just land from western countries have first vision of India at the airport road and those people take us for granted. Now let me tell you what happened after that. There were lot of cues and cries from human right organisation,media , NGO and what not supporting the slum dwellers. In the democracy we have lot of problem in implementing the things efficiently.\n\nLet us take a hypothetical case .\n\nIf we want to build beautiful highway in India with 8 lanes same as in New york or Washington DC what will happen in India? \n\nEnvironmentalists will started crying deserting vast lands will result in cutting of trees , then reduction in rain etc.,\n\nWhat those people who have to vacate houses (Though most of them are illegal only)to implement highway project will do ? They will hold demonstration and will move the case to court and will challenge the might of the government with the power of so called democracy!!!!\n\nWhat will Communist(India) claim is that there is plot of international community to hinder our progress by arousing so many people to insurgency.\n\nNext day Opposition will claim resignation of CM because so many people are pushed to vacate their houses.\n\nAlso there is no unity among Indians. If TamilNadu state ask for Cauvery water for TN agriculture Karnataka state refuses to give as if TN is another neighbour country.\n\nThere is no Single national leader in our country who have support of 1 billion people. All leaders enjoy influence only in their home state. Nobody know them out side their home state. \n\nThere is no understanding between each states in India. They act like as if collection of small small individual countries and Govt of India behaves like Indian Union sounds similar with European union.\n\nIn order for India to become super power linking of river gaunges with river cauvery is very important. For that we may need support of all the concerned states in India and huge fund to implement that.\n\nWe have lot of inefficiency with our democracy and simply the system which produces irresponsible people and corrupt politicians. So we to focus on making a good democracy and system instead of blaming polticians.\n\nThank you very much for asking good question which will force every Indian to think.\n\nJay Hindh
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I don't know. India is a great place. It looks like it is dirty because it is poor. Being poor is not a crime, is it?\n\nIt is poor because it is over populated, and not enough money to go around to all the people.\n\nI think "Born-on-earth" is a F****** As***** for saying that. Just because of some people, you cannot stereotype the whole East.
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Hm, India reminds the rest of the world what NOT to be.\nCorrupted, have overpopulation, to improve the literacy rate (India's literacy rate is 60.3%), banish caste system, eradicate poverty, stop 3rd world thinking, bad manners, foolish pride, and many more.\n\nOf course, then there's Mother Teresa and Gandhi. But every country has it's great people.\n\nIndia provides cheap labour to other countries as well.\nI'd say the world would be inconvenienced without India. Other than that, I suppose the best thing about India is the food and scenery.\nOther than that, there's nothing really much to like.\n\nSo please try to be a bit more humble there. Pride is the downfall of civilisations.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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the major problem is that india is ruled by some inefficient politicians where much of the money goes to their own pockets. it does not mean that all the indian leaders are corrupted, but majority of them are , whatever b the party they belong to. this makes development of india move at the pace of a snail in terms of capital equipment.
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you can draw an officer and around him are lots of money and he is wearing a crown which means he is superior... then under him are poor indian people suffering some scenes can be people who have diseases who are poor and can't afford to go to the hospital or some citizens who don't have food and don't have homes they just sleep on streets or kids who don't go to school...
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India is one of the worst nations on earth because of the discriminating "caste system" which is still adhered to by indians - your constitution is only worth the paper it's wriiten on. your leaders, politicians and authorities do not have the political will to enforce anything that does not make money. Your system of democracy stinks - it does not work for the good of the indian people.
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Are you an Indian giver? Pardon the pun (it's an American pun) .But you are right the Brits should give something back to India this would be a good start.
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As known, the Hindies were mainly captured by the British - Portuguese, Spaniards, etc., had some minor regions.\nWhenever the British are forced out of a place, they have always created such a situation that there is a chaos! \nSimilarly, when India was free and independent, the state was cut in three: India, Pakistan (West and East: known as Bangladesh).\nThe reason "discovered" was religious freedom! But still, in India there are millions of Muslims who either chose or did not get the proximity to fleet!\nIt is sad to see the two nation competing in a wild manner!
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Generally, low developing countries are poor ... not just the people, but the government itself. And for the government to meet its obligations, it often simply makes more money -- but this additional currency leads to the devaluation of the existing currency and leads to inflation.
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Why is that most Indians, like the former Soviets, have a propensity to claim that they "did it first, only the work got stolen, wasn't acknowledged internationally, there was a conspiracy, blah ... blah ... blah!"\n\nGet over it, already.\n\nb.t.w. for those of you who are too thick ... *I* too am an Indian, so no feeble bleating about "racism, neo-colonialism etc. etc...."\n\n---- \nDo I get 10 points?\n\n----\nFrom your post on my question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArX54pLeU8W9YV5la.e.P8bsy6IX?qid=20060608091049AAy2Kxi I see that not only do you *not* have a clue, you also have no sense of humour. If you want to chat with someone, please send a mail using the link on their profile page - it's there for a reason. http://answers.yahoo.com/my/message_do?kid=AA11819241 ! Posting asnine comments in the space provided for Answers is not the best way to win friends.
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To Britain it's been an absolute disaster. We don't have money to build roads, safe rail, improve the tube, hospitals, education, pensions, have homeless sleeping in cardboard boxes, have people working like slaves to pay the highest tax yet we give money away.\n\nWhat is even more disgraceful than the corruption and misappropriation of finances in EU is the fact that we did not let british subjects such as from Hong Kong come to Britain even though they had contributed for a century to Britains wealth and the entrepreneurs that did want to come here who would have created jobs for people in Britain and brought money here were refused entry; whilst people from countries that during the cold war were pointing nukes at us are allowed in as migrant workers. They take british people jobs undercutting wages as they can sending money to their homelands with weaker currencies. Worse we all sending our taxes to these ascension countries as handouts to make them wealthier! We should just pull out!!!!
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Oh!thats great.I am really shocked to know u r an indian and talking rubbish abt india!!!!
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Your comment reminds me of a Star Trek episode.  There is a planet on which most of the population has to work in harsh mining conditions to support the Cloud City Dwellers, a fantastically advanced city that floats above the planet.  The hard work of the people on the planet surface support the fortunate cloud city inhabitants.  The workers below live a harsh, unpleasant life.  The people in the floating city live a life of luxury.\n\nIt is the lower castes in India that make possible the life the elites there enjoy.\n\nAs you can see, I carefully sidestepped your question. Why? Because your supposition may be, in the short term, correct. India may not benefit globally in the short run, but eventually it will have to address this permanent underclass and fix these inequalities.
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THEY ARE ALSO OUR PART BUT BAD PEOPLE OF INDIA.
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Education system under the British rule India was poor, because Britisher educate people for only satisfy their requirement.
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India has a population of over 1 billion. Define common? I was there on vacation and the poverty is terrible. If the person is "middle classs" common then they need to use their abilities/brains/abilities to push forward their progress. Now is a time of importance for India. They have to use all their resources cause everyone is looking at them.