In this
piece, Atanu Dey presents a scathing critique of the Congress -
For every election cycle that the Congress gets to govern India, India suffers a generation’s setback. The dozen or so elections since India’s political independence that the Congress has won the right to rule India, India’s development has been delayed by around 200 years. In that period, hundreds of millions of Indians have lived lives of utter destitution. Today one of out every two children below five is malnourished — the implications of which are so staggering in terms of retarded mental and physical development that it makes one weep bitter tears for the utter and needless waste of human potential.
Contrast where India is now relative to where it could have been — a developed nation — and it is easy to argue that the Congress must be responsible for hundreds of millions of premature deaths and billions of human years of misery. The cycle of poverty and misery gets one more boost today, another generation worth of opportunity lost, another couple of hundred million lives forced into horrible misery whose only redeeming feature would be that thankfully they will be short.
Quite honestly, I don't really understand his point - and I welcome an explanation. Is his point that the BJP or another party would have done better? I doubt it. What do you think?
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I dont know too much about Atanu Dey, but based on the few lines I am reading I know the kind.
The kind that like to quote numbers and statistics that can never be proven but are used to beat people in to awe at parties. We are not 100 not 300 but 200 years in to arrested development because of Congress. Try disproving that!
He is of the kind that like to make sensational but unfounded statements in their writings to shock people in to attention. If the blood of hundreds of millions of children and billions of years of misery apparently caused by Congress wont get your attention, what will?
And finally he is the kind who will make accusations and whine but not have one constructive solution of his own. People should not have voted for Congress because they have apparently pushed hundreds of millions into misery. But vote for the party whose shining star is responsible for the death of a couple of thousand people (that independent international agencies have verified and who has been denied a US visa). Who would dare to argue with such numbers!
Not that I want anyone to waste time on this guy but I had to find out exactly who he was and went and looked up his blog. He is an economist with an IIT/Rutgers/Berkley pedigree so I am sure he is smart. But I havent read so many lines trying to create so much noise but still saying so little in a long time. These are excerpts from his bio:
"I am plenty smart."
"I am not rich because I dont work hard."
"Living in India after living two decades in northern California is hard, especially so if the move is from Berkeley (where I spent the previous eight years) to Mumbai (a city with nothing to offer me.)"
Guess its those 2 decades in the California sun that have made him an expert on the ruin Congress has imposed on India. I would post this on his website except I have to sign up. And that would mean spending more time on this garbage than I should have.
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