A developing country

“A developing country is a country with a low income average, a relatively backwards infrastructure and a poor human development index when compared to the global norm

Development entails developing a modern infrastructure (both physical and institutional), and a move away from low value added sectors such as agriculture and natural resource extraction. Developed countries usually have economic systems based on continuous, self-sustaining economic growth.”

Wikipedia On Developing Countries.......

What is this global norm? Who defines all these? Who has given authority to Western countries to decide who is developed, developing or under developed?

Once I heard somebody say that a village without electricity is under developed. I was astonished by this. How can electricity define development? I feel the comfort does not come with modern technologies. It’s the level of satisfaction that brings in development and not the modern technology.

“The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab incursions starting in the 8th century and Turkish in the 12th were followed by those of European traders, beginning in the late 15th century. By the 19th century, Britain had assumed political control of virtually all Indian lands. Indian armed forces in the British army played a vital role in both World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU brought independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India faces pressing problems such as the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife”

CIA On India.................

See how CIA portrays India to the world. We need to correct our mistakes and go ahead its not technological development we need. No technology is going to wash away poverty or dispute with Pakistan, overpopulation, environmental degradation or religious strife. Its all together a new approach we need. Its not economic independence we need, it’s the independence from the ego of being third world. It’s the acceptance of cultural values we need not acceptance of UN strategies or World Bank funds, its acceptance of religious co existence we need and not war against terrorism, it’s the re foresting we need and not multi storeyed buildings.

Think we are third world because we think some body else is first world and not because we stand down the line.

“It’s the attitude that matters and not altitude.”