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The Father Son Argument

Today I share with you the essentials of our argument or rather conflicting viewpoints. Here am I, reaching middle age, a developmental banker, with access to a host of data on our nation’s development and policies as also insights. Then my dad, a retired senior army officer, 83 years, very aware and has written four books also on Military History and Strategy. His latest book, Flashpoints In South Asia, deals with India’s standing in the region. Incidentally, he is a social worker also and runs The Institute of the Blind at Chandigarh in an honorary capacity for the last 25 years – it’s rated A class. Now the conflicting viewpoint, I say that India is not progressing as the wealth is not trickling down to the poor, the rural infrastructure is horrendous in most states, 240 million Indians go hungry poor every day and 2 million children die at birth annually due to malnutrition etc. Then we have the disparities in wealth which are increasing rapidly, only thing being we pretend tha...