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[kingfisherbeer]

First of all, Hi everyone! (1st post)

As an Indian (living in India) I have a lot of mixed feelings about this article.

I'll call myself a left leaning nationalist, but I disagree with a lot of what Greg Palast has written. He is exploting the almost negligible knowledge of India to get his point home. All that stuff about Kerala being some virtuous progressive state is just that, stuff and nonsense. Kerala is a communist ruled state that is prvented from going under only because of the money expats working in the Gulf remit. It has no IT capabilitoes of any significance. And Uttar Pradesh being some rightist non-socialist failure... what a lie. India is a socialist country by definition (it is written in our constitution). BTW, the next Bangalore is in UP, a place called Gurgaon (near Delhi).

This is unethical journalism. I know Friedman is an idiot, but using outright lies (which most people would take at face value) to prove a point is quite sad.

If anyone has specific questions wrt India, I can easily answer them.