Thursday, 6 August 2009
India is crazy #1
Everyone seems to love Titanic here. No particular reason, they just do. Apparently it's a 'very good love film'!
Sunday, 2 August 2009
India 1st week
India is crazy! And once again I have very little time to post anything of great length.
Something I've learnt pretty quickly is that India is not a 'poor' country in the same way that say you'd think an African 3rd world country is. In many ways India feels like a contradiction, there are big western style shops right next to slum areas, you can be in one area and it will seem very western, then walk down the road and It feels like a different world. There are huge hospitals here with world class healthcare: if you can afford it! And that's the problem, most people can't. The middle class here is very small, most people are very poor. India is not so much a poor country as it is a country with a lot of social and financial inequality. Obviously the hindu cast system has not helped, the rich believe the poor deserve their lot because of sins in a past life and the poor are content to be poor believing they will do better in the next life: a harsh system indeed.
Something I've learnt pretty quickly is that India is not a 'poor' country in the same way that say you'd think an African 3rd world country is. In many ways India feels like a contradiction, there are big western style shops right next to slum areas, you can be in one area and it will seem very western, then walk down the road and It feels like a different world. There are huge hospitals here with world class healthcare: if you can afford it! And that's the problem, most people can't. The middle class here is very small, most people are very poor. India is not so much a poor country as it is a country with a lot of social and financial inequality. Obviously the hindu cast system has not helped, the rich believe the poor deserve their lot because of sins in a past life and the poor are content to be poor believing they will do better in the next life: a harsh system indeed.
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