I simply pointed out the inaccuracy in your post, for many from the privileged class in India prefer to close their eyes to reality.

"Can India ever overcome its huge poverty problem? It depends on what strategy the country takes.

Today, India appears to have four broad approaches to tackling poverty. The first is essentially to abolish the poor, rather than poverty. This was graphically illustrated in Mumbai this year when slum neighborhoods were razed, making 400,000 people homeless. The Mumbai police followed up by beating protesters whose shacks had been demolished.

The second approach is often termed the trickle-down model, but perhaps better described as "ignore the poor." A favorite of many Indian economists, it argues that in the next two to three decades poverty will disappear as market forces go to work.

But even if prosperity does eventually trickle down, sitting back and doing nothing about poverty for yet another generation is a human and economic waste.

India's government is backing a third, developmental approach that aims to improve the social and physical conditions of the rural and urban poor. This means more and better roads, improvements in water supplies and rural electrification; it also means big steps forward in education and health, together with efforts at microfinance.

The fourth and most ambitious approach seeks to exploit the unused entrepreneurial abilities of the poor."


Reporting the facts does not make me a bigot.
Blaming India's ills on the British is a rather weak strategy, and for the over population you can blame nobody but yourselves.
By the way, how the heck was a country with 1/15th of land mass and 1/20th of population able to control India, from half way around the world no less? Why weren't you able to shake off the colonial rule with a simple shrug of a shoulder?
Perhaps you should look inward for the reasons behind the grinding and vicious cycle of poverty and not blame others.

As to defending both India and the US, well it is a noble idea but where will
you stand when push comes to shove? For whom would you die?

Alex