Kyaemon” People talk about the problems. They don’t talk about the solutions.” A soft spoken person is making the difference for India’s Dalits, the “Untouchables.” The Hindu caste system was created by priests and astrologers, the Brahmins. Essentially, they grabbed a top spot and pushed down poor hardworking people. YouTube – The Scavengers – India […]
India is a land of contrasts. Many are quite poor. Educating India’s Poor – The New York Times > World > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 13 http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/17/world/20080117india_index.html ‘Slumdog’ highlights India’s forgotten poor – CNN http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-28/world/india.poverty_1_indian-story-economic-growth-arun-kumar?_s=PM:WORLD ……”The growth aspect has tended to receive much more attention than the darker side of the Indian story,” […]
“…the three wealthiest Indians have more cash than the top 24 Chinese.” However, do they give back to society? Mumbai billionaire’s home boasts 27 floors, ocean and slum views Mukesh Ambani: India billionaire’s home in Mumbai – latimes.com http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-rich-20101025,0,1248685.story Mukesh Ambani is at the top of the growing list of billionaires in India, where some […]
PareByokeThe XIX Commonwealth Games – The Big Picture – Boston.com http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_xix_commonwealth_games.html After much worry and criticism before the start, the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India have now reached a successful conclusion without any of the disastrous events that had been predicted. Of the 71 participating countries, Australia topped the medal chart, taking home […]
Beautiful TajMahal Beggars lining Streets Indian Fort —- Op-Ed Contributor – Games India Isn’t Ready to Play – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03mishra.html?hp ON Friday afternoon, public spaces across north India were flooded with policemen and paramilitaries. Thousands of alleged “troublemakers” were arrested. The sending of bulk text messages from mobile phones was banned. These precautions had nothing […]
==== Inspired by emails from a few years ago. These sayings come to mind. English saying: “Too many cooks spoil the broth(soup).” Burmese saying: “Saya mhyar thar thay (Too many bosses/instructors cause infant’s death.” The “forest of wires” point to a jungle of authorities and chaos. Compare this situation to Singapore or Hong Kong. Their […]
What a surprise! India is supposed to be a rising superpower along with China in the next century. Per Indian papers, you can guess the corruption and irresponsibility there. I might guess the Indian Caste system prevents people from fully utilizing their human resources and energies and realizing their potential. Photos: Filthy Athletes Village in […]
kaiကျနော်အိနိ္ဒယနိုင်ငံရဲ့ မြို့တော် နယူးဒေလီကို ထွက်လာခဲ့တာ ၂၀၀ရ နိုဝင်ဘာလကပေါ့။ အဲဒီတုန်းက ကလေးမြို့ကနေ ဂျစ်ကားလေးနဲ့ တီအိုလို့ခေါ်တဲ့ နယ်စပ်ရွာလေးကို တနေကုန် ခရီးနှင်ရပါတယ်။ ခရီးအစပိုင်းမှာ လမ်းတွေက ကျောက်ခင်းလမ်းဇြစ်တဲ့အတွက် လမ်းဘေးရှုခင်းတွေ၊ တောတောင်အလှတွေ ငေးမောရင်းလိုက်ပါလာခဲ့ပါတယ်။ တီးတိန်မြို့အလွန် မံဆောင်းဆိုတဲ့ တံတားကို ဖြတ်ကျော်အပြီးမှာတော့ တသက်နဲ့တကိုယ် တခါမှ မကြုံဖူးတဲ့ ဆိုးဝါးလှတဲ့ လမ်းခရီးကို ကြုံတွေ့ရပါတော့တယ်။ လမ်းဆိုးပုံများတော့ ကျောက်ခဲ မျိုချထားရင်တောင် အစာကြေလောက်ပါတယ်။ ကားလမ်းပါလို့ ဘုရားစူး မိုးကြိုးပစ် ကြိမ်တွယ်ပြောရမလိုပါပဲ။ ၁ဝ ပေလောက်ပဲ ကျယ်တဲ့ လမ်းဟာ မြေသားလမ်းဆိုတော့ ကားတွေအသွားအလာများတဲ့အခါ ကားဘီးနေရာတွေက တဖြည်းဖြည်း နက်ဝင်သွားပုံရပါတယ်။ အဲတော့ လမ်းက ကားလမ်းနဲ့ မတူဘဲ လှည်းလမ်းလို ဖြစ်နေပါတယ်။ လှည်းလမ်းကမှ နည်းနည်း တိမ်ပါလိမ့်မယ်။ […]