Development or Developmental Terrorism

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It has become a cliche, even a politically correct cliche these days, to say that there are two Ibdias : the India that shines with it fancy apartments and houses in rich neighbourhoods, corporate houses of breathtaking size, glittering shopping malls and hi-tech flyovers over which flows a procession of new model cars. These are the images from a globalised India on the verge of entering the first world. And then there is the otehr India. The India of glitter and privilege, it seems is bent on turning its back, and seceding fast from the other India of despair, rage and inhuman poverty. This is not just a matter of growing relative inequality between the two Indias. A more brutal process is at work. with the connivance of governments at the central and at the state levels which is not onlyh widening this divide between the two Indians, it is deepening consciously the absolute poverty and misery of poor india.