[lbo-talk] Re: To Doug: re India etc in Digest no. Lbo-talk digest, Vol 1 #2192

[Hari Kumar]

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>Statement: Hari Kumar: "By the way, did anyone see the out-sourcing prgramme on 60 minutes?  Showed well, what another side of India is today."
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>Question: Doug: "Could you expand on that? What side? What did it tell you?" 
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Reply: Well my thoughts are not especially profound, & definitely not 
necessarily new. It was just a very graphic illustration & the 
interviews were very interesting. As is well known to this group the 
rush to use the expertises of the educated middle classes of India - by 
'outsourcing'  continues apace. For instance, call centers etc are well 
described. But I did not know that tax returns to the USA were being 
prepared by accountants in India; or that USA XRay reports were being 
reported by Indian radiologists - simply the daily scale of this 
so-called 'globalisation' is to me at any rate, amazing. As well, the 
smug self-satisfied Indian capitalists who have built these new empires 
were fairly repulsive - Quote: " Our mission is to show that Indians are 
capable" - Yes indeed - no mention of the $ eh?
Ulhas' observation via article re the boom in the stock markets in India 
is obviously related.
Question: What do the current rulers of India represent. I would suggest 
that the rulers of post partition India were pro Soviet compradors for 
many years. Mrs. Gandhi's 'Emergency' was in part predicated on an 
anti-US swing of Jayprakash Narayan. The pendulum has swung to an 
overtly pro-USA comprador class. What else can the BJPO be (we will 
leave aside designations such as fascist - I would for once agree with 
this description that does not quite fit the old Comintern 
classifications).
I do not really know as of yet what the final designation should be.....
Thinking in the cold - Hari

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