The ascendency of India as an economic world power

In this blog, I often try to present India as the leading destination of outsourcing. There is no doubt that India is now the leading country when it comes to outsourcing. Yes, Indian companies are earning huge amount of money and Indian economy is growing in a healthy manner. However, there is another side of the coin too. India has turned into a country of hunger. NDTV has highlighted this matter today and you can find a report titled: India grapples with hunger pangs in its website.

The report stated:

Hungry children, severely malnourished, these are images we associate perhaps with rural, remote, even tribal India.

The truth is that these are from one of India's most glittering cities, from the heart of Mumbai.

The children worst affected are those of migrant labourers out on the streets.

Repeated years of drought drove Ganesh's family out of their village in Andhra to the streets of Mumbai.

For the large floating, shifting migrant communities there are no anganwadis, which is why Ganesh at the age of two weighs only 6.5 kg, when the healthy weight for his age is actually 11 kg.

Not a rosy picture at all! Well, it is nothing new. We have seen this kind of report many times in the media in the last few years. The sad part is that Indian decision makers are too much engaged with the idea of economic growth and that is why they do not bother about the starving children.