As India celebrates its 60th anniversary and the stock market pushes to new highs, it is appropriate to remember the complexity of the Indian sub-continent. The following article is a short, stark illustration of the reality that there remains much inequality and pain in the lives of the majority who are poor. While this will not immediately impact politics, economics or society for most, if the inequalities are allowed to continue to accrue, the pain of adjustment will be difficult to manage.
(Siddharth Dube is the author of In the Land of Poverty; a 10th anniversary edition will be released in fall 2008. Mohan Guruswamy is the chairman of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi.)
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