Comments on: India and America: ‘Howdy Pardner!’ – The Hindustan Times, India http://themoderatevoice.com/22559/india-and-america-howdy-pardner-the-hindustan-times-india/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:26:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: New Indian society elects office-bearers | GoDesi Blog http://themoderatevoice.com/22559/india-and-america-howdy-pardner-the-hindustan-times-india/comment-page-1/#comment-168664 New Indian society elects office-bearers | GoDesi Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:15:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/white-house/22559/india-and-america-howdy-pardner-the-hindustan-times-india/#comment-168664 [...] India and America: ‘Howdy Pardner!’ - The Hindustan Times, India [...] [...] India and America: ‘Howdy Pardner!’ – The Hindustan Times, India [...]

]]> By: WilRobinson http://themoderatevoice.com/22559/india-and-america-howdy-pardner-the-hindustan-times-india/comment-page-1/#comment-118794 WilRobinson Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:58:35 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/white-house/22559/india-and-america-howdy-pardner-the-hindustan-times-india/#comment-118794 The U.S. is India's friend because they see 1 billion customers. Yet the alleged "India middle class" is more a figment of capitalists imagination than anything, as the recent World Bank Report pointed out (828 million living on less than $2 a day - which is crap money even in India).<br><br>I'm living in Mumbai, and I can attest that even in the biggest city in India, the middle class is really just a 1% strata of society that is moving from middle class to upper class. the poverty is boundless.<br><br><a href="http://www.internationalpoliticalwill.com">www.internationalpoliticalwill.com</a> The U.S. is India's friend because they see 1 billion customers. Yet the alleged “India middle class” is more a figment of capitalists imagination than anything, as the recent World Bank Report pointed out (828 million living on less than $2 a day – which is crap money even in India).

I'm living in Mumbai, and I can attest that even in the biggest city in India, the middle class is really just a 1% strata of society that is moving from middle class to upper class. the poverty is boundless.

http://www.internationalpoliticalwill.com

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