<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20040113200002.19137.1885.Mailman@infothecary.org"> <pre wrap="">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." </pre> <pre wrap="">Question: Doug: "Could you expand on that? What side? What did it tell you?" </pre> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>