You said the people in the article are meant to look hungry, Gizmo, not poor. If we were talking about poverty, we'd be looking at the issue of wealth distribution. We might also address economic development, including transport, employment and energy solutions for people in rural India.

So it makes sense that you'd post a 5 year old article about poverty in Delhi.

polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:43pm:


Now now, G, telling poor rural brown people in India what they want isn't racist.

polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:43pm:


Really???....

"Well, tell that to the people living in the slums around New Delhi.

"India hurries to hide its poor
Officials want slums and beggars out of sight for the Commonwealth Games. Critics say they expected more from a nation that has long prided itself on its humanitarian policies.
October 01, 2010|By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times.

Reporting from New Delhi — The government people came one night in late September and built a partition covered with bright blue plastic sheeting and adorned with cartoonish tiger mascots and "Come Out and Play" slogans. It hid the slum known as Coolie Camp on the airport road where the foreigners pass.

Irfana Begum, 40, who collects garbage, must now lug her three-wheeled bicycle over about 300 feet of rocky ground to get to the road and make her living.

Begum, a 15-year resident of the slum, squatted in the dirt in a dusty sari, her bare feet adorned with toe rings. "They're trying to pretend that poor people don't exist in India, for their image," she said near a pile of plastic and glass bottles, cardboard and used vinyl sheeting.

"It really makes us angry," she said.

By hosting the Commonwealth Games, a mini- Olympics that begins Sunday and is to be attended by 71 nations, India hoped to propel New Delhi into the ranks of world-class cities such as London and New York and mirror Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics.
ut amid bad planning, alleged corruption and shoddy workmanship, crews have barely finished the main sports venues, let alone various urban renewal projects. The result, residents and experts say, is an effort to hide the impoverished, including those in this slum near an athlete training center.

"I'm so appalled and angry at this," said Harsh Mander, a member of the ruling party's National Advisory Council after passing the cheerily camouflaged Coolie Camp. "Poverty is nothing to be ashamed of, but government and middle-class elements want to hide it."

The government has tried to rid the capital of beggars, and has used two "mobile court" trailers, with police and judges in tow, that grab and sentence panhandlers. Many receive one-year detentions in "beggar homes" or are temporarily exiled to neighboring states, leading to bureaucratic squabbles over who they "belong to."

Authorities have also cracked down on an estimated 300,000 street vendors, a significant burden on families who live hand to mouth. Daulat Ram, 50, a handicapped barber who lives in Coolie Camp, has seen his business decline precipitously since he was forced off the main road.

Most cities that host such mega-events resort to window dressing. Seoul expelled 720,000 people from their homes before the 1988 Olympics and shuttered dog-meat restaurants. Eight years later, Atlanta issued 9,000 arrest citations for the homeless. Athens removed hundreds of Roma, also known as Gypsies, before the 2004 Games."

Which particular survey says that the people in India want solar, rather than food??

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Which particular survey says that the people of rural India want food rather than electricity, Gizmo?

Oh, that's right. It was in the cartoon.

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:52pm:


Maybe the cartoon was referring to medicine, Aussie. Maybe those stupid, lazy Indians are meant to be sick, and they think the solar panels are medicine.

Surely that could work too.

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:53pm:


That's right, Gizmo. We're too dumb to work out what solar panels are too.

If those Indians are meant to be hungry, how come they have mango chutney?

Karnal wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:57pm:


Sorry, no it doesn't make Indians fools (although it DOES make YOU a FOOL) however it makes the World Leaders either naive, or stupid...and no amount of comments from you will actually make the cartoon in any way 'racist'...it simply makes the people in Australia who are bitching about (like you) incredibly dumb...notice I didn't say that any particular racial group was stupid, I just said YOU, as a person, was dumber than do sh!t..