INDIA IS BUILDING CAPITALISM INSTEAD OF SOCIALISM

uExpress, January, 2000 by Georgie Anne Geyer

NEW DELHI, India -- The first thing that strikes one after returning to this universe of peoples after an absence of nearly a decade is how strikingly the famous Indian "attitude" has changed.

Instead of howling mobs at the airport, there is a neat tourist desk. You give the man your 250 rupees for the ride to the hotel, and someone graciously escorts you to your old British-style taxi. The driver himself is extremely pleasant and never demands any extra money.

Is this really India?

But even beyond these tourism policies, which are being put into place across the "new" India, one can see how dramatically the former elitist, professionally post-colonial, scornful attitudes have changed. It is almost difficult now to find the superior Indian of the Third World...

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