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I know. I looked at this subject few months ago. Indian's have made a huge effort to mask their poverty by 'sexing up' their reports and on the other hand by spreading false reports about Pakistan. The latter has been done by using dubious private pressure groups many of which are just fronts for spreading propaganda and have Indian's on their payroll.
However despite this one thing is clear. India has more poor, I mean disgustingly poor then any other country on earth. When I was growing up any report I saw of India showed the filth and half naked, wretched humans living in the open or in slums that animals could not be expected live in. I actually was worried my country of orgin would also be like that and in my mind wanted Pakstan to be nothing like India.
When I made my first visit to Pakistan when I was about 12, I was surprised in a positive way - while people were poor in Pakistan but it was nothing like the horror I had imagined. One thing I noticed in 1980s. The Pakistan poor all wore Shalwar Kameez and the wretched poor in India wore Saree. There was clear differance and I used to tell my friends 'we are not like them' meaning the starved sticks we used to see on BBC Tv.
Nothing substantive has changed. Yes of course the depth and scale of poverty has reduced but the poverty swamp in Ganga India is larger then the entire poverty of all of Africa combined so it's not liike it's going to change anytime soon.
The reason nothing is going to change soon is there are social traits within Hindoo Indian society and as long as they exist poverty is going to be difficult to eradicate. Foremost is the Untouchables whose position is formally instituted by Hinduism. The position of Untouchables, Dalts, Adivasi's etc is result of thousand years of societal prejudice and this is not going to change within our life spans. Indeed trying to do so is like making Pakistani's accept Ahmadi's as Muslims. It's not going to happen anytime soon.
Also while the groups in Pakistan that are discriminated are small and make tiny percentage of society (below 3%) thus a fringe in India the Untouchables/Shudras/Adivasi and other unfortunates make at least 24% of society. That is huge number - maybe over 300 million. When you have that number of people locked in institutional poverty it is going to take generations to make a real differance. In the meantime the Indian's are going to use one art they are good at - the art of deception in trying to mask the true scale of poverty and ugliness in India.
However despite their attempts the scale of poverty is so bad it still comes through and independant obsevers and can still detect it by using some 'tools'. Okay ask yourself this question. If you have the income are you by choice going to make your daughters or wife go outside in the open to defecate? Are you? Even a fallen man would not want that to happen? Therefore it is safe to assume that this only happens becuase of extreme poverty. Well look at the figures for India (below) -
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp2012/fast_facts/en/
50% of Indian's openly defecate as opposed to only 20% in Pakistan. Does this show us anything? Please don't tell me Indian men enjoy their women exposing their backsides to the world? Could this be indirect measure of poverty? Which of you guy's would let your females go expose to the world and then have the fvckin galls of bragging how prosperous and big you are? Tell me?
Then we have the figures for number of people living on the absolute low of $1.90 a
Asia
Bangladesh 43%
India 21%
Indonesia 15.9%
Pakistan 8%
Link > https://ourworldindata.org/world-poverty/
link > http://www.economist.com/news/economic-and-financial-indicators/21614146-poverty-asia
There is another interesting angle to this. The general perception in the Western world is very positive of India. Just as I am sure India is poverty/ugly centre of the world I would be first to admit that India has far better peception in the West then Pakistan has. No doubt about that. The reasons are manifold. In the colonial era India was regarded as the crown jewel of the empire. The mystique and magic of India was built up by English writers during that period. Young ambitious men went to India to make their name (although that mostly was in NWFP in what is now Pakistan but that is besides the point) and in 1947 Indian Republic by copywriting the name 'India' ended up owning that mystique built up by generation of English writers. As English was and became even more a world language that sense of India became diffused into other Western languages.
To this day the British also carry a guilt complex of the empire and this mostly applies to Blacks and also to Indians. The result is they are almost politically correct about talking negative about both peoples ( in private is altogether another matter) and this sort of helps Indian's mask their ugliness. On the contrary Pakistani's do everything they can to irritate and get backlash from the West. With things as they stand - rise of Islamaphobia it is has become sport to bash Muslim countries in particular Pakistan with Indian's within Western media dong everything to fan the fire even more. We have great examples like Farooq Zakaria in USA of this.
However the reality is differant and is even worse than what you hear. Most of the real Ganga swamp poverty is hidden away from Pakistan and the world. It is not found near the states adjacent to Pakistan border but further in deeper India. But Indian's know this. That is why they come up with such phrases as "India developing but long way to go" because beyond the big talk of number of billionaires they have and the great GDP figures the fact is is the biggest sea of humanity living in abject, gut wrenching filth and poverty is found in Ganga India.
Thank god for Jinnah and 1947 !
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