This implication or inference of yours that Indians are not worried about the poor is quite wrong. I suggest you look up the poverty census from 1990 to 2010 and you will be able to appreciate the fact that poverty has decreased manifold despite the ever growing population. Talking of population, we also know that it is our biggest problem which leads to all the important inferences drawn by the EUROPEAN.
I can name quite a few important Europeans specifically Brits who stay in India and love it out here. But then again it will be off topic.
As for the point in bold - The reason why Karachi is laid back is because Economic Development has not hit the city or the nation yet and the day it does you will see a stark difference in that Europeans point of view as well.
For the point you made on being "Super Sensitive", I believe that is a good sign for the Indians. The reason I say that is that we are constantly aware of our shortcomings and we are working very hard to resolve the issues and I am sure once everything is sorted out we will not some across as super sensitive to the world.
For the point on Dalits (some of the Dalits are in positions of authority - so I am not sure from which era are you quoting Pillai), female infanticide - YES IT IS A PROBLEM and NO ONE DENIES IT! but like I said we are working hard to resolve the issue, thanks to all the criticism.
I don't see a lot of Indian making remarks on Pakistan or running a blog bashing Pakistan. However off late I have a seen a lot of Pakistani's writing blogs about India's shortcomings but they often fail to include India's achievements clearly inflating their own egos and placating their public for "you exactly know what".
Let me ask you on the other hand - given 55% of Indians don't have lavatories and I feel disgusted by thinking of it as a fact - how much has the Pakistani Government done over the last 60 years that 65% of its population does not have lavatories. Now when we get into percentages the figure changes does it not!
So I suggest you look up a lot of your facts and don't make inferences on absolute numbers. If you do want to make comparisons then please do so on percentages!
Also, you will be able to write a more rational and balanced blog once you visit India and specially New Delhi - As for the pollution I am not sure how did he come to that inference as New Delhi is the 2nd GREENEST CITY IN ASIA FOLLOWED BY CHANDIGARH! and that my friend IS A FACT! - It does not mean though that it is does not face severe pollution but then again like I said - WE ARE WORKING VERY HARD AND ALL THANKS TO THE CRITICISM BY MANY PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
On Europeans in India, a Delhi-based Dutch diplomat Arnold Parzer was so frustrated being a resident of the Indian capital city that he called New Delhi "the most miserable place I have ever lived in".
Arnold Parzer, agriculture counsellor at the Royal Netherlands Embassy, also reportedly told the Dutch daily Het Financieele Dagblad that New Delhi residents were a ‘darn nuisance”, the Hindustan Times reported.
“Anything that can go wrong, does go wrong; everyone interferes with everyone else; the people are a darn nuisance; the climate is hell; the city is a garbage dump,” Parzer reportedly told the daily.
“New Delhi is the most miserable place I have ever lived in,” the diplomat was quoted as saying.
On Dalits and Apartheid, Ms. Navi Pillay, the South African judge who became the United Nations high commissioner for human rights last year, recently told Barbara Crossette of the Nation a story about a group of women who came to her in Geneva recently with a brick from a latrine they had torn down in protest against being forced to carry away human excrement in their bare hands. They wanted to make the point that despite India's frequent assertions that untouchables," who call themselves Dalits ("broken people"), were no longer condemned by birth to do this job, there were still tens of thousands of such latrines in the country, and the ******, soul-destroying work continues
Over 250 million people are victims of caste-based discrimination and segregation in India. They live miserable lives, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system in Hindu India. Dalits are discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in slave-like conditions, and routinely abused, even killed, at the hands of the police and of higher-caste groups that enjoy the state's protection, according to Human Rights Watch.
Haq's Musings: Dalit Victims of Apartheid in India
On green cities, Islamabad is considered among the greenest cities in the world.
Karachiites being laid back does not mean there is no economic activity. In fact, Karachi has seen dramatic development and economic growth in the last decade. There has been a very visible construction, industrial, finance media and consumer boom in the city. Any casual observer can see that Karachi's infrastructure is superior to that of any Indian city.
Haq's Musings: Eleven Days in Karachi, Pakistan
Here are some of the percentages you want:
While a mere 14 percent of people in rural areas of the country - that account for 65 percent of its 1.1 billion population - had access to toilets in 1990, the number had gone up to 28 percent in 2006. In comparison, 33 percent rural Pakistanis had access to toilets in 1990 and it went up to an impressive 58 percent in 2006.
More at : India trails Pakistan, Bangladesh in sanitation http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal...sh-in-sanitation_100120219.html#ixzz0jgKsuVmr
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