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by ankit28595 8y ago
For context, according to 2011 census there were 118 million farmers and 144 million farm labourers in India. 12,000 suicides per year puts the suicide rate at 4.5 per 100,000 people. This is lower than suicide rate of most countries.
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by ankit28595 10y ago
I would have to disagree. I travel by public transport and I see plenty of people smoking at the bus stands and railway stations.
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by ankit28595 10y ago
I didn't notice any change. Just today I purchased grapes and the vendor gave me them in a polythene bag.
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by ankit28595 14y ago
The city's name is Thiruvananthapuram not Trivandrum.
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by ankit28595 14y ago
The protesters were trying to enter the Rashtrapati Bhawan, that's when tear gas and water cannons were used, not just because there were protesting. Just to be fair.
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by ankit28595 14y ago
Actually, there is strong feeling in at least in North India, that Kerala is where whole India should be. I am from Haryana and though Haryana is much more developed economically than Kerala, all my friends agree that Kerala is much better.
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by ankit28595 14y ago
Maybe because you are after all an Indian. Some foreigner talking shit about your nation, well, hurts.
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by ankit28595 14y ago
Reading this article reminds me a story from "The Great Indian Novel" by Shashi Tharoor that explains the present state of Indians - "A man, ... a symbol, shall we say, of people of India -- is pursued by a tiger. He runs fast, but panting
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by ankit28595 14y ago
I would like to point out that the extreme poverty that India is known for today is pretty much a legacy of the British Raj. The 'enlightenment' you are talking about came much before that, when India was a much more peaceful and prosperou
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by ankit28595 15y ago
But that does not seem to be too good as the sites that are linked might not be that small in size.