12-07-2007, 10:42 PM
India slips two places to a rank of 128 on the UN Human Development Index
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Yet, there is something disconcerting about this. In 2004 we were told that India was not shining. In fact, India was stinking. Poverty was rampant, so was social inequity. Then they came back with their schemes and plans. We made feeble protests. We were called names. They claimed that they would fix India once and for all. Bridge the rural-urban divide, make our society more equitable, provide better opportunities for the needy.
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