Bangladesh doing better than India: Amartya

[desioptimist]

Comeon there is no need for this silliness!

Yeah, the other poster was being ridiculous in describing Bangladesh as prosperous but at least he was accurate in saying that it is stable.

As for that comment about being scared of Pathans, well I am sure that anyone with a cursory interest in the history of the sub-continent would know that Bangladesh really could not have taken a much more different course than having to "put-up" with Pakistan due to the way that partition had happened - India was implacably opposed to a separate Pakistan. It took at least a couple of decades of blatant misrule from West Pakistan for East Pakistan to realise that it would have to go it alone and it has.

When compared to how the country was in 1971, it is now a country of hope in 2011. It can look forward to fast GDP growth, decimation of poverty at a very quick rate(both due to high GDP growth and the large amounts of money that the BD goverment spends on the social safety net) and the enlarging and creation of new industries to provide jobs and employment of it's population.

Why are people still fighting. We should give credit where it is due. Bangladesh surely a steady and confident economy now. And they have done better in anti poverty scheme than us.
May be because it is small hence easier to manage and target the schemes. Whatever may be the case, we should learn from them.

 

[asad71]

Day dreaming with a Hurricane in your hand?

Please don't delude yourself that RAW has time to waste on something as insignificant as Bangladesh!

Your economy?

Slums of India?

What is this then in Bangladesh?

Maps of the Slums of Urban Bangladesh — UNC Carolina Population Center




And a country where cycle rickshaws are the main conveyance in their Capital city!!

Good one!

Good to see delusional people.

1. That photo that seems to have captivated you is the rear of a "Cluster Village" which is a temporary shelter for people affected by river erosion. Pray, show us a photo of the slums surrounding Ambani's 27 storied residence.

2. We take cyclones as routine eruptions of nature. We manage them better than anyone in the world - including the Americans. This does not bother us as much as you seem to suggest. Cyclones seem to cause more deaths and destruction in Andhra because GOI machinery is too lethargic/unwieldy and bureaucratic to tackle such calamities.

3. You ought to read some of the books and media reports regarding RAW coming out in India itself. For instance, Indian media openly reported that BD Prez Zia was killed in a RAW plot.

4. There are perhaps more cycle rickshaws in India than in BD. You can use them in Kolkata outskirts. I used one in Dum Dum once. But we in BD are fine with this mode of transportation. Why should it irritate others? What about human pulled rickshaws in India? This is perhaps the most inhuman/demeaning transportation. I haven't seen this anywhere except India.

5. BD is quite conscious of its asymmetric situation compared to India. The people of the Brahmaputra-Ganges delta never accepted foreign subjugation. Our sovereignty is very dear to us.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Mujib,

Touched a nerve, did I?

All I did was to tell those and mostly you who want to compare with India and who feel slums are only in India, to stuff it up!

and also to tell that rickshaws are there in the Capital of BD and vehicular traffic impassable (note: impassable!)

It is to tell them and you that the Bamboo is not in the grass!

Give a link that Zia was killed by RAW or stuff it up!

You all are so delusionary!

Too much of posto I presume!

I am sure in Bangladesh you have a skyscraper for one family that is better than Ambanis!

What is Ambani compared to you rich Bangaldeshis?

Man, you are Mohammed Ali!

Bangladesh the Greatest!

Float like a Butterfly and Sting like a bee!

 

[Avisheik]

Is it India's fault is God gave us a better deal than Bangladesh?

You got independence one day earlier than India. Forgot that?

You had a 24 hour headstart!'

But you were awed by the Pathan as per another thread!

If you were scared of them, is it our fault?

Why whine?

Now tuck up your lungis (girding one's loins in English) and get cracking.

All is still not lost!!

God gave you a better deal than us but you didnt make use of it so its your fault.

In 1947 PAKISTAN was independent NOT BANGLADESH.

We scared of pathans?? Bro, we shed the blood of 3 million people for independence when they tried to make us their puppets

I am not whining, i am just explaining to sonic_boom why its ok for us to compare our developments in these fields with india even though their population is higher than ours.

 

[faisaljaffery]

Best of luck to the people of Bangladesh.