Radio Open Source had a discussion yesterday on the topic of Class relations in India. The panel included Pankaj [...]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5181024.stm

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

and ‘inheritance taxes’.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax

Can you point me to a nation that has ‘succeeded’ without having the above systems in place?

As a famous poet said: “A country is not made of land; a country is made of its people.”

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurazada_Apparao

The root cause of all issues in India is desperation and collusion among people.

DESPERATION

85% of people are working poor in an informal economy to earn $2 a day so that they can feed a meal for their family. Their lives oscillate between fear and frustration. As of today, sex, movies and democracy aka ‘voting in elections’ is the only respite for them.

source: http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/01guest3.htm

COLLUSION

The remaining 15% well to do people are even ‘more’ desperate. They ‘prefer’ not to pay taxes. The only ‘professional’ relation between individuals is collusion .

India has the potential to become superpower provided the government empowers its people.

Ensuring a credible basic income guaranteed system for every one whether they work or not will bring in dignity instead of desperation for the working poor.

And imposing inheritance taxes will stimulate compassion instead of collusion among people living in India.

Thanks a bunch!

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Regards,

Crazyfinger

A concrete example came in May when students at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi among other elite universities went on strike, wearing t-shirts that read “Kill Me Before You Kill Merit.â€? They were opposing quotas for lower castes and “Other Backward Classes” in higher education.

There is a serious argument to be had about whether quota systems are an effective way to achieve social equality. But in what spirit are the opponents of quotas making their arguments? The same week of the debate, when it was occasionally suggested that the government should persue equality at the lowest levels of education first, Parliament passed a bill removing quotas from primary schools.

The agricultural sector, which accounts for roughly 60% of the workforce, is seeing about 2% growth. Just when India needs to bolster primary education to shift vastly more workers to the high-growth services sector, the government takes this regressive step.