[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on India: wrong? (was, U.N. seeks aid...)

[ravi]

Thus spake uvj at vsnl.com (8/9/05 7:37 PM):
> Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> 
> 
>> The world of economic growth, glass office towers, waxed cars and
>> fashionable clothes coexists with its opposite: stagnation, a
>> decrepit built environment and despair.
> 
> 
> I am not talking about Intel engineers. Today 300 million Indians
> watch CTVs. This number was close to zero in 1970. Indian CTV
> industry sold 8 million CTVs in the fiscal 04-05. If the current
> growth rate can be sustained, 500-600 million people will CTVs by
> 2020.India had 86,000 phones 50 years ago, this number will have
> grown to 200 million by 2010. <...>
> It's time to give up mythology of development of
> underdevelopment.
>

a myth for a colour tv ... seems like a fair trade. drones of the world
unite? ;-)

	--ravi