For four years Times of India keeps on harping how we are in the same league as the developed countries US ,UK ,FRANCE ,GERMANY and just the super power about to happen . And we the guliable readers are ofcourse ready to bite the bait . Even though our salaries may not have increased in the current appraisal but the feeling that the nation we are born in is some kind of Super Power in the community of nations makes us feel so great.
Now our newspapers are quite aware that we all know really that there is poverty all around us .And that our cities are the dirtiest and the filtiest in the world unless you are only comparing with Bangladesh .we are no where near the literacy rates or per capita income of the
Now a clever fellow coined the term BRIC . The Russians and the Chinese and the Brazilians were proud to be cemented with each other in some kind of brotherhood deviced by Investment Bankers . Anything can go wrong but it is impossible to disregard the wisdom of a research done by one of the Big 5 American companies . So India was just about to happen .
But then just before the Olympics were truely about to happen most miraculously the Power all over India went off . A Super power with no power for days all over the country was quite a painful experience to the fist thumping patriots . And loo when the power returned to the patriots the sight of Indians finding themselves no where near the Chinese and Americans in Olympics was a big blow to the super Patriots of TOI kind . Hope they refrain from using this Super Power phrase for India atleast for some months after these Olympics and concentrate on the definition of Poverty Line like "The Hindu" does.
Now our newspapers are quite aware that we all know really that there is poverty all around us .And that our cities are the dirtiest and the filtiest in the world unless you are only comparing with Bangladesh .we are no where near the literacy rates or per capita income of the
Now a clever fellow coined the term BRIC . The Russians and the Chinese and the Brazilians were proud to be cemented with each other in some kind of brotherhood deviced by Investment Bankers . Anything can go wrong but it is impossible to disregard the wisdom of a research done by one of the Big 5 American companies . So India was just about to happen .
But then just before the Olympics were truely about to happen most miraculously the Power all over India went off . A Super power with no power for days all over the country was quite a painful experience to the fist thumping patriots . And loo when the power returned to the patriots the sight of Indians finding themselves no where near the Chinese and Americans in Olympics was a big blow to the super Patriots of TOI kind . Hope they refrain from using this Super Power phrase for India atleast for some months after these Olympics and concentrate on the definition of Poverty Line like "The Hindu" does.
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