It will take time for me to answer all of them. The one you quoted is my observation. India is like a poor man who spend his money on booze, which is equivalent of a country that spend money on weapons. Its also like the man who take care of his family with charity from others, just like India is getting hand out from British, American, etc to provide social welfare. Does this mean that India only rely on donations from others for its own social welfare. Of course not. But it create an appearance that its spending money on all these high profile scientific or defense projects while ignore its own citizens, which live off foreign donations for daily needs.
That is what my post above and I still stand by it. Its an observation of fact, not trolling.
Most of the welfare is given of by NGO's not connected to any governments. It still doesn't mask the fact that Indians have abysmal statistics on sanitation (close to half openly defecate) and 43% of children are overweight.
India still spends proportionately low on weapons believe it or not, but rather, on inefficient social programs that does not go anywhere. Take this NREGA bill for instance. Subsidised food for the poor, when the whole distribution system is plagued with operational maladies like poor warehousing of grains where Rats consume away 30% of the stockpiles.
The gulf between developed and developing countries is also measured in technology. Foreign countries questioned the use of why a poor country like India need fibre optics, when it later formed the backbone of the IT industry.
The question isn't reducing the jobs for the best and the brightest of our country, but plugging the operational leakages of our welfare system for the poor. Chattisgarh government has reduced the operational leakages from 53% to 4%. Measures like that should be instituted throughout the country.
And instead of a bloated NREGA bill which costs $20 billion, the amount should be slashed, and given as a cash transfer system to poor women. The rest on infrastructure like roads, and sewer building.
Before all of that, sanitation comes first, and then public health.
And No, Indians don't take hand outs, but we dod not deny instutions like the Gates foundation coming to India and helping us, because we don't want people to die.
Throwing more money is not the solution, especially when the government of the day is inefficient as hell.
They could take a lesson or two from ISRO.
And NO. We are not going to
cut space program funding. For a long time, Indians have lost faith in their politicians, their over paid cricket stars and pampered starlets and thespians. We need scientists like the people on the Mars mission. Or the scientists.
They have done what those people haven't, bring a sense of pride to the nation.
Yes, it is a vanity project, but you need self-esteem and the Mangalyaan project sure did that.
Why would Britain need to give India money? Is it corruption related?
Let's be frank here, I ma pretty sure the money is tied to leveraging the Indian government to be their 'friends.' I don't think Tories actually care poor brown people in their former colonies.
. If you want good news and analysis, go to the Hindu. That's for intelligent people only.
