Tourists to India - Beware.

You could lose your life, be molested, raped and attacked. And the Indian police will do little to help you or investigate the incident.

India’s police will most likely deny the incident and attempt to cover it up.

India’s tourism campaign is called Incredible India.

But the campaign might more aptly be called Incredible Murders, Incredible Rapes & Incredible Attacks.

Incredible India or Dangerous India?

A few months back, there was the case of two NRI girls being attacked in Mumbai near the J.W.Marriott Hotel.

Before that there was the case of foreigners being raped and murdered in New Delhi.

Now there is the tragic case of rape and murder of a young British girl Scarlett Keeling in Goa, which the Indian police initially tried to cover up stating that she drowned after taking drugs. It was only after the

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We are currently reading Parag Khanna’s new book The Second World - Empires and Influence in The New Global Order, the talk of the town these days.

Since we couldn’t wait to do a post on the book, we gave it something like the Washington read (flipping through the index to find what’s of interest). A full review of The Second World will follow after we finish reading the book.

Here’s what we uncovered about Parag Khanna’s take on India - India just does not count.

Khanna does not mince words on India:

India is big but not yet important. Outsourcing has made it a leading back office for Western firms, but except for a few segregated twenty-first century oases of development, India is almost completely third-world, most of its billion-plus people living in poverty. (P.276)

There is more criticism.

China has order and one day may have democracy. India has democracy but achieves less because it is chaotic. The link between trade and development that China exemplifies is almost absent in India. Relative to its geographical and population size, India’s government is almost invisibly weak, with a federal budget the size of Norway’s….The difference between India and China is thus not just the time lag between the advents of their current economic reform eras but also a fundamental matter of national organizational ability. Even if India rises, it will be according to Chinese rules. (P.277)

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