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| Title | Incredible India: The Incovnenient Truth |
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| Author | Mr Bal Mundkur |
| Journal | Asian Affairs, Volume 42 Number 1 |
| Date | March 2011 |
| Introduction | The author's objective is to correct many of the misconceptions about India and to combat mistaken analysis. He highlights the hundreds of millions who live in poverty, the rampant corruption and the incompetence of the administration. He asserts that comparisons with China are always to the disadvantage of India, except in the field of democracy, and suggests that the Indian Space Programme is symptomatic of a wide-spread misallocation of resources. And to suggest that the traffic problems in Delhi and Mumbai are being caused by more motor vehicles is a misdiagnosis. The real cause is an increase in the number of bullock carts. |
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