RE: For Tavleen

["Indrajit Barua" <indrajitbarua@philosophers.net>]

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Tavleen Singh writes for India Today. You may perhaps contact her there.
We are truly great. Enough of taxpayers' money is spent to eliminate
poverty, but what we have been spending that money for is to increase the
numbers of dishonest rich -- not to eliminate poverty.
Indrajit Barua.

>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:52:19 -0700 (PDT)
>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>From: Sanjeev Sabhlok <sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com>
>Subject: For Tavleen
>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
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>Saw this in India Today of 18.9.2000 by Tavleen "A joke doing the rounds in
>Delhi is that if money was sent directly to the receipients [of poverty
>alleviation programmes] they would have enough to lift themselves above the
>poverty line."
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>I don't have her e-mail ad., but if anyone knows it, pl. send this to her:
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>"Dear Tavleen, India spends 6 (SIX) times more money on poverty alleviation
>and 'social justice' than is needed to ELIMINATE all poverty in the country
>were money spent directly on those below poverty line. See my article on
>IPI's publications page (www.indiapolicy.org). In India we are jokers par
>excellence, of the Batman (Gotham) variety."
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>Chow.
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>SS
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