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...Indian governments have ignored the poor in the past. Indeed, for decades, governments with a socialist ideology threw money at poverty?only to find that much of it was wasted through corruption and mismanagement. The sharpest reductions in Indian poverty seem to have come not when New Delhi had spent the most, but when the economy had grown the fastest. After India began dismantling its socialist economy in 1991, the percentage of the population living in poverty fell from...
...Even before it lifts a single Indian out of poverty, Chidambaram's budget has already achieved something important: it had none of the socialist rhetoric of the past. Chidambaram has increased spending on the poor without punishing the middle class and rich, and has hence shown that fighting poverty and keeping India's economy booming need not be contradictory goals. Indeed, the Bombay stock market shot up 2.2% on the day of his speech...
...even if most Indians accept that their country's new prosperity must be shared, many remain pessimistic that the poor will benefit from the measures. "We have no reason to believe that the current bureaucratic system can deliver," says P. Chengala Reddy, of the Indian Farmers and Industry Alliance, a farmers' lobby, citing the wastage and corruption that have blighted previous initiatives. Chidambaram's paradox is this: to reach India's poor, he has to rely on a bureaucracy whose inefficiency helped perpetuate the problem of poverty in the first place. The Finance Minister is aware of the challenge...
...afternoon embodied what Ghungroo is all about, and this diversity also shed some light on the traditions and current trends of the culture that tied the festival together. Ranging from dance and music to poetry and comedy, the acts spanned a broad spectrum of cultures and movements from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, and made a lovely juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The skits that ran in between acts, while partly existing to allow time to set up equipment behind the curtain, served an important purpose in themselves by using humor to showcase the experience of being young...
...Ghungroo” itself is the name for sets of bells worn on the ankles in traditional Indian dance, and thus it was appropriate that this instrument be featured in the first act of the show, a classical dance called “Arabhimaanam.” Accompanied by traditional vocal and instrumental music, the dance combined storytelling with graceful dancing, and served to open the audience up to the heritage of Indian dance, essentially providing a background with which to judge all that would follow...