For rural India, life goes on
Submitted by rick on February 22, 2008 - 9:20pm
"I'm more IPL savvy. And I'm reading the sports sections more now. My interest in cricket will take time."
- Preity Zinta, co-owner of the Mohali IPL franchise, in an interview with Times of India, 22.2.08
As MS Dhoni rolls in his $1.5 million, Ricky Ponting sulks over his $400,000 and Loots Bosman counts his loot ($150,000), spare of thought for the millions of Indians who survive on Rs.12 per day.
That's 30 cents per day. Over the 44 days of the 2008 Indian Premier League that is less than 1-100,000th of Dhoni's worth.
NDTV ran the following report last week:
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The farm loan waiver
I'll follow up on this post simply by referring to the (on the surface at least) sensational announcement in India's 2008 budget of the waiving of a large number of loans to small farmers, and by linking to two topics on what is rapidly becoming my favourite website for Indian news, IBNLive.com:
Farm Loan waiver
Union Budget 2008
The counterpoint of the obscene wealth of the IPL against the widespread rural poverty is something that I will continue to watch.
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