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Understanding India – Part 1

Understanding India - Part 1

‘Chaos often breeds life while Order creates habit.’ This statement from the famous historian Henry Adams has a lot to tell. A few weeks back, on his return from Japan, Pujya Guruji Shree Rishi Prabhakar was sharing how the whole country appeared so morose as if it has gone into a mass mourning till date ever since the Hirosima episode.

He explained that this was simply because of too much order. Everything is right about Japan and that is the whole problem. When everything is right, the whole process becomes very mechanical, very robot-like.

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The Rise of India & China

Synopsis of the book
‘THE ELEPHANT & THE DRAGON’

By Robyn Meredith

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As demonstrated in India & China, globalization never hurt the poor as was widely claimed by the activists protesting globalization.

China’s story

China opened its economy to the outside world in 1978. This led to a five-fold increase in average incomes.

China has had a sickening history during the times of Mao-Tse- Tung before its rise in the world . In pursuing his vision of egalitarianism (which is the basis of communism), he collectivized all land and paid peasants based on collective revenue. This only entrenched famine. Deng Xiopang, the architect of Modern China, who came in Mao’s wake decollectivized land, re-allowed trade of produce from privately owned land and China’s harvests grew back to decent shape. Keep Reading

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