Comments on: Slums, schools and neocolonialism

By: Vijay K

Vijay K — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:31:50 +0000

Tahir, I agree with you about systematic manipulation. One good example is selling arms to both India and Pakistan and pushing us to war (any bets we will fight again to bring the West out of recession?). Only those governments get western aid/funding who kow-tow to the west and get pressurized to buy their arms. The ones that don’t obey, get toppled (Libya, Iraq, Syria etc). However, I’m optimistic seeing advances in some fields like aerospace, (India launches its own satellites) stem-cell research (India ranks amongst the top in that field) and agriculture (Hissar Agri Univ). Don’t forget that the West has had a 300 year head start after the industrial revolution, which we were not allowed to participate in.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:04:31 +0000

I agree with raika45. I admit that I did not fully understand the point made by the writer. Why do the writers who are writing on a popular book use complicated language that makes things difficult for the reader? They should realise that Dawn online is not an academic journal but a public forum.

By: shirin

shirin — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:51:37 +0000

As Ethan Casey, author of several books on Pakistan and India, said, and I paraphrase – while Indians get angry at any criticism of India by an outsider, Pakistanis are extremely quick to accept their faults. Despite reading numerous articles in Dawn critical of Pakistan, the one article that gets you is the one that happens to say not so great things about India.

“Never put loyalty above truth. It is the root cause of evil” Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)

By: FJ

FJ — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:08:54 +0000

Excellent work. The same could have been better if communicated simpler : )

By: rich

rich — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:31:54 +0000

Tahir,

u dont really know about call centre and back office, the western pop hates india and some other countries for taking away their jobs, many indian co have opened shops is the west and provide services, its is by choice, slavery is one sided the other side is forced that is the difference

Richie

By: Mukesh

Mukesh — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:26:49 +0000

If someone points out ourproblem let us not become emotional and start finding faults with others – we should accept the truth and work towards eliminating such issues.

By: Dev

Dev — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:54:15 +0000

Aha! Finally Pakistan and India being compared as similar..my fellow Pakistanis must be so proud..no wonder this book is making headlines in Dawn, slander sells best when people can’t pay for potatoes

By: Ajaya K Dutt

Ajaya K Dutt — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:03:04 +0000

Katherine Boo could have stayed home and worked on south central part of City of Angles. It is a living hell and she did not have to travel that far either.

By: SK

SK — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:47:19 +0000

Good business – writing books for westerners.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:02:43 +0000

rahat saab

try LA, Chicago,new orleana, in the inner cities and u will get an answers and this in a country whose defenses spending is more then the entire budget of 99% of the countries

do u get the Picture

let me compare india and usa

per capita of india is 1500 dolars usa over 50000
area usa is almost 3times the size
pop of usa is 25% of indias so get an idea of the pop density
agricultural production US govt pays farmers no not cultivate the land, bec if all the farmers cultivate their land supply will far outstrip demand all over the world and prices will fall (its economic, but not humane)

if usa cut just 10% of its defence budget and channel it to the homeless of usa, that problem will be solved in theory

so povert is relative