Well I stand corrected – India is a capitalist paradise where everyone’s on the up and nobody goes hungry. I guess all those reports of poverty and malnutrition are a WFP/WHO/UNESCO conspiracy. Feel free to pump another $2 billion into a cricket series.

By the way, did I mention that the next Let’s Cook! With Craig will be brought to you by Heinz?

Aye, and they will find the going even harder as the price of food continues to rise as a result of the new rich wanting to eat meat instead of grains.

There almost is. Indians – the ones who can afford it – are into two things big time, blogging & cricket. Especially ‘blogging about cricket’. It’s more than a religion, it’s a science to them. See wordpress’ cricket tag, it’s dominated by Indians and it’s mind boggling.

Hopefully Wah is right about the hundreds of millions of those who are excluded from India’s new wealth. They’ve got a long way to go though. Eg: Tata Motors has released a ‘people’s car’ for the masses. The tiny Nano seats 5 (??) and costs just $2,500. There are only 2 problems:

1) The car will fall to bits on the crap roads in the ‘outer regions’ (i.e. any area more than 20kms outside a major city)
2) No one in the target market can afford that sort of money anyway

They’ll end up exporting it to countries slightly better off – like Australia. I’ve got my order in.

So it ain’t their actions per se that are bad, it’s the system that allows them (nay, encourages them) to act that way. Is that too “hard left” for this blog? I didn’t actually say capitalism.

India is the waking giant of the world’s economy and hopefully the numbers you’ve presented will come down. One of the barriers is the insiduous caste system, which will always prevent people from improving their lot in life,

Who cares anyway if there is no food to clean one’s teeth with.