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BTW, Naveen, what is the government policy on farming nowadays. Long ago, I
believe corporations were not allowed to have farms above a certain size
etc. Are these restrictions still in place? or lifted? I hate this.
Information like this is never posted on any website, or at least I havent
found any....
AP
--- Naveenkj@aol.com wrote:
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> This discussion about the olympics reminds me of an article in "The Hindu"
> on
> the day of the anniversary of the Quit India Movement. A group of women
> had
> gathered (the place I don't recall) protesting multinational corporations,
>
> mainly large farming industries that are not only responsible for
> dwindling
> the local farming industry and destroying family farms pushing many
> farmers
> into poverty, but are also responsible for unequal acquisition of
> fertilizers
> and water resources. (Ironically, around the small article were large
> advertisements for Heinz ketchup, Lee Jeans, Domino's pizza, and a weight
> loss center.)
>
> The proponent of institutionalizing American Sporting industry in India
> must
> make it known the costs of such initiatives. In a land of 700 million
> people
> without access to safe drinking water, how does this proponent ask for
> Indians to spend metric tons of water on daily maintainance of American
> quality sporting fields? Furthermore, where is the place to build sports
> stadiums in already overcrowded cities? Oh, maybe we will do what we have
>
> done with our highway expansion programs. Displace dalits and build it on
>
> top of sacred burial grounds of Scheduled Tribe lands (which were once
> given
> to them and promised non-industrialization). He further states there
> shall
> be no govt. involvement for it will be a hurdle to this "progress".
> Thinking
> the answers to ending the corruption in our govt. is to have no govt. at
> all... no even your gods of the west will agree that further
> democratization
> is the answer to corruption not laissez-faire.
>
> Furthermore, where is the dire need for this? Not winning medals in
> Olympics
> is not a valid cause for proposals such as this. The people in India, up
> to
> my knowledge, are not crying for alternative forms of entertainment,
> especially sports.
>
> The American sporting industry is nothing more than a form of business,
> run
> through marketing principles of consumerism. The athletes are highly
> paid,
> not by their teams but through corporate sponsorships. To adapt such a
> society would require India to make drastic cultural adjustments. For
> instance eating pizza instead of puri, and dressing in denim jeans instead
> of
> kurthas. For the corporate sponspors will force on India, American
> cultural
> commodities of Nike Shoes and CalvinKlein Jeans. Are we ready to
> surrender
> our culture? Are we ready to accept the costs to human life, culture and
> democracy, for these are requisite means for achieving an America in the
> Indian sub-continent?
>
> Why do we have to succeed in terms set by the white man? Why do we have
> to
> emulate everything American? Where have the Gandhians gone? When will we
>
> realize globalization means assimilation into a culture of rugged
> individualism, selfishness, unhappiness, lack of family values, all in the
>
> name of economic progress? When will we realize that the western
> standards
> of world power are suicidal? Do we really belong to such a backward,
> uncivilized culture, that we don't find it worthy of having westerners
> emulate us for a change? Why doesn't the rest of the world learn kabadi,
> eat
> roti for breakfast, and hum the tunes of Ravi Shankar? Maybe then we
> shall
> think about listening to American music?
>
> peace
>
> Naveen
>
>
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