- In the book City of Joy we see how the family end up living on the streets of Calcutta, because for generations they have been having so many children and spending money on large weddings.

- Indian eating habits mean much more work. In Nepal I observed that even the poorest women were cooking 3 times each day, and cooking with wood very inefficiently whereas I think they don't really need to cook more that 1 time each day. .

- We also see that instead of spending 50 hours today getting some water pipes today and connecting them many people choose to spend 1 hour each day into eternity collecting water.

- It is my belief that work expands to fit the time available. It's cultural practice to have the woman stay at home ; so cos she has so much time the tasks have expanded to take the time available. In Germany as both man and women have outside jobs they spend less than2 hours a day cooking and cleaning.

- Typical German family both mother and father are out working, so the money is $2P

- Typical Indian family only the father has time to work fulltime so the income is $1P. If they then have more children then the money is further subdivided.

- I think we can say that Germans adopt work practices that make them twice as efficient as the Indians. - Spread that over a million families and the Germans have $4P million and the Indians have $1P million.

- Lets consider that the people are farmers. The Indians are generating 1Tonne of food per field and they do one field per person . The Germans would probably go to the bank and borrow $1million to buy machines and thus farm 200 fields. (possibly twice as efficiently, but then they can only crop the field once a year whereas the Indians can do 2.) So the income of our German couple is $200P - fuel and interest payments compared to the Indian family's $1P

- I am being provocative of course the actual situation is much more complicated ... The Germans might be living on easy credit and the Indians might be having to deal with extreme weather, political problems etc .. Though I think there is an element of truth.

- We could argue that a Indian urban family coud be 7 wage earners and one mother cooking for them, but if everyone has 6 children the family of 8 will become 20 (2 +3x6) so even more mouths to feed.

- I wrote this after i went to the Ghandi mandap in Guwahati - It treats Ghandi as some kind of god, which would surely be against his own principles. For all the good things he did I think he made a lot of mistakes pobably fundamental ones.
- 1. He pushed for independence durng the war ..as a result India was independent before it was ready.
- 2. He told people to make their own cotton on a homespinning wheel ...China sent villagers to work in factories so Indian villagers missed out on the efficences of industrialisation.
- 3. He led the salt march, but the truth is humans get enough salt from eating fruit and vegetables, never mind fish they don't actually need to buy any extra salt ..so they could have told there the British to keep thier high priced salt.

- "India has too many people", people often tell me saying wages don't rise cos there is always someone else who will do your job for less money. If there are so many .. why are they not being like China and manufacturing everything for the rest of the world i.e. getting the jobs of workers in other countries. I guess other dynamics apply ... less infrastructure and lower skills ? Often in India instead of using 1 cheap worker operating a machine they use 10 really low paid workers.

- The Learn by Memorising technique used in most Asian schools also stifles development. People who have learnt the understand and practice technique are much better workers as they can work things out for themselves when new things are problems come along.

- Dirty India

- Hindi imperialism and Nehru Family Occupation replacing Britsh rule

- Cultural practices hold India back ... cause Poverty

- Assam Tribune Newspaper - Unsensationalism I read things all the time like : ELECTION DAY PASSES CALMLY - 6 people were killed in Dibrugah and 2 were kidnapped in Dhubri, but otherwise the election preceded calmly Uh ! 6 people dead In direct contrast to the rest of the world Assam Tribune continually unhypes bad news stories.

- generous with other peoples money the corrupt NGO gravy train