tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727452664821328304.post4188284655929031585..comments2023-03-23T15:00:26.076+05:30Comments on Treading the (un)beaten track: For the Working People!Happy hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037352190477312136noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727452664821328304.post-54870643974184697402009-12-09T15:15:04.177+05:302009-12-09T15:15:04.177+05:30I somehow think we went wrong with the whole indus...I somehow think we went wrong with the whole industrialisation process. The shift from an agrarian society to an industrial one was commercially successful but eventually detrimental in the long run. All ills that plague modern society (inequality, environmental degradation, commercialism) seem to originate there. I agree with Daniel Quinn who tries to create an alternate history of the world in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727452664821328304.post-27016714584732526822009-12-09T11:55:03.581+05:302009-12-09T11:55:03.581+05:30Today's papers tell us, one-third of India is ...Today's papers tell us, one-third of India is reelign under poverty. What is the way out: politics? self-help? micro-credit? charity? revolution? communism? socialism? capitalism? development? growth? what!Jaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10921850566867450869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727452664821328304.post-11350242519810870222009-12-09T11:29:24.176+05:302009-12-09T11:29:24.176+05:30My 'maid', a sturdy female of 30 years fro...My 'maid', a sturdy female of 30 years from Allahabad, has two children, aged 12 and 5. Her husband, works for a construction company as an overseer. A nine to nine job pays him 3,500 per month; no benefits, no job-security. He is about to lose the position in a month or so. The family lives in one of the fast disappearing vacant plots in developing Indirapuram area in a jhuggi. She worksJaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10921850566867450869noreply@blogger.com