viagens na india

Monday, August 28, 2006


Are the indians happy about the great amount of tourism nowdays?

Some are.they are doing so much money! they had land due to their belonging to a higher caste in the very first place, and so they are creating new hotels and business grows. their kids will be able to fly out to countries like the US and the UK for education and then comeback to develop their parents business!Sweet!

Some aren't. they never had property, they were always lower caste, they keep serving the big bosses, and now they are serving the white skinned (which they've been doing since colonialism, anyway!). Nothing changed, except their home (India) which is now more polluted and less their own.

And others, still, have no opinion. they are completely illiterate to opinate, considered untouchable, they are worried about marrying their daughters and having more sons, and they can't even realise the big picture, even though they are aware a lot is changing and a lot will change. "It's a dark age. It's the age of kali", they whisper me.

So, the development is massive but India is still completely politically corrupted; caste is still an issue; police are all powerful; justice is a joke; and the health system non existent.

How can we still keep walking around in bikins, having food in air conditioned rooms, and buying souvenirs on shopping malls, while across the street women are being raped, baby girls killed, people beaten to death by the police, children sold, beggars tortured, lower castes enslaved, widows misjudged, and others completely discriminated by their own religion?/

What are we to do? Where are we going?

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