On Thursday 13 Dec 2007 5:32 pm, Carol Upadhya wrote: > Blaming the IT industry, IT professionals or even BPO employees for > Bangalore's conspicuous urban problems – the rising real estate prices, > chaotic traffic, the increasing social divide, and allegedly high crime > rate – misses their real causes.
Very *very* interesting take Carol. It seems to complement what I felt and indicates a very naive and child-like thought process that is accepted as the norm by a major Indian newpaper, and will presumably percolate down to several thousand readers. "Crime is because some people are getting too rich, and tempting the poor who are only waiting to be tempted by crime" How elegant and simple. Who can disprove this timeless logic? In fact India lives in myths and cliches, simple nonsense-logic explanations (I see this in medicine too) with no thought being given to the idea of science and explanations that could exist outside comfortable logic. This fits in too with a quote from Camus by Naipaul that I posted in an earlier message. This is what Camus said about Hindus and Incas: "'The problem of rebellion has no meaning except within our Western society..... What is at stake is humanity's gradually increasing self awareness as it pursues its course. In fact, for the Inca and the Hindu parish the problem never arises because for them it had been solved by a tradition, even before they had had time to raise it - the answer being that their tradition is sacred. If in a world, things are held sacred, the problem of rebelion does not arise, it is because no real problems are to be found in such a world, all the answers having been given simultaneously." shiv
