Invincible India

Compare and Contrast: Personal Response

I think the articles that explained about the issues of India were a great report. They give us an idea about the strengths and weaknesses of India. The first article talks about what India has to offer to other countries. But the second article is about what is missing in India, which is water. The reason of why conflicts have resulted is that the government is having a problem controlling the environment properly. It was redefined that it is also a problem environmentally in which people are looking for new technologies to solve these issues. Luckily, there are still people who can view that the survival rates of the animals have declined since India is the main problem for resource scarcity as well. Happily, there are some groups and organizations helping out on importing materials to other countries for a trade. It will surely help on their economy in the future since it will always be growing.

Compare and Contrast: Questions

1. What will happen to India’s economy if they do not solve these problems immediately?
2. Why do all birds don’t get as much water as possible?
3. What materials are India exporting into Egypt?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7350118.stm

aaaThis article is about the endangered tigers in India and how people try to smuggle their body parts and skin to northern Asia. People of the west have come to the conclusion that India alone cannot stop the radical decrease of the numbers of tigers, so Neena Gill, a president of the European Parliament’s India delegation has brought attention to this topic. She believes that this year is a great time to bring awareness to this issue, because China, one of the main consumers of the tiger skin, will receive a lot of attention (through the Olympics) and therefore some of that attention can be linked to the tiger-business. This is the income of many people in India, Nepal and China though it is illegal. It is believed that 100 years ago, there were 40,000 tigers in India while now there are only around 1000 left.
aaa Raising awareness for the endangered animals is very important. What used to be only animals on this world is gone now and the humans have replaced them. It is scary how the numbers of endangered species, not only tigers, have decreased over the last few centuries. I really believe that this year is a great timing to raise awareness, because this is a serious topic. It is a great idea to get not only the east included in the project of saving the tigers. India is the home to almost half of all the tiger population; therefore I think that the majority of NGOs and other government based organizations should concentrate on India and its environment/animals.

Why haven’t people bothered saving endangered species such as the tiger before?
How can one help save the animals?
What would happen to India if the tigers would die out?

aaaThe article that I used for this analysis was posted on Monday, May 5th 2008. It was the same day that I found this article, therefore its significance is its recentness. It has little hindsight, only as a summary of the food scarcity in India, but apart from that little to none hindsight. The article is an average online news article on the Reuters website. It was written by Jonathan Leff and Mayank Bhardwaj, working for the Reuters website. Neither of the journalists have written about their personal views, though there are some direct quotes and opinions of economists. The combination of the authors is interesting, because one of them sounds like an Indian, the other more like a Westerner. One can’t really say whether they wrote the article from inside or from outside o the country. The authors have written this article for money, as well as to inform curious, interested adults or people in the food business like economists and farmers. Throughout the article, both writers use no emotions to influence the audience to a certain perspective. It has no bias and sets the audience on the positive side, even though mentioning negatives.
aaaaaaaaaa Asuka Heltmann

http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-33413220080505

The Uncomfortable Rise of the Rupee

This article talks about the Indian Rupee, and how strong it is becoming. “One poor wretch, pressed against the car window at a Delhi traffic light, tries to change a dollar bill she presumably cadged off a tourist. She wants 50 rupees for it.:” The rupee is growing so fast that the poor can not even keep up with it. In just one year, 2006-2007, the rupee went from 46 rupees to a dollar down to 39 rupees to the dollar (US). This is mainly caused by the help of other nations. “The net inflow amounted to almost $45 billion in the year to March, compared with $23.4 billion a year earlier.” So in a span of one year, the net inflow of India almost doubled its amount. From all of India’s exports to other countries in 2007 came to $23.4 billion US dollars. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, is doing its best to keep the rupee from growing too fast. “Printing rupees to buy the incoming dollars keeps the currency cheap but also adds to the money supply, stoking inflation.” Some people fear that the high priced rupee will make India take a step backwards, and tighten its controls on capital inflows.
I do not believe that the Indian rupee will not rise so quickly that it will make the country have to make a step backwards. Like the article said, the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) will do something about the problem before it will do any harm to the country. One paragraph in the article did say that some on this is a good thing, because India is also getting foreign money which it can use to make the country better.

1. How is the rupee growing so fast?
2. How is the RBI keeping the rupee cheap?
3. Why do you think that the high priced rupee will make India take a step backwards.

Kris M.

Is India the New China?

The news article that I analyzed is called “Is India the New China?”. The man who wrote this article was a professor from Cornell University, his name is Kaushik Basu. Mr. Basu lives in the United States, but he is originally from India. It could be bad that he wrote the article because, he is Indian, and the article is consulting whether India is going to surpass China as an industrialized nation, so he may write it in a perspective that India is defiantly going to succeed. People who are in business, interested in foreign affairs and economics would most likely to read this article, as well as fairly well educated people. Mr. Kaushik wrote this article to inform people about how fast India is becoming more and more powerful. An interesting thing about this article, even though he is Indian, he isn’t being persuasive or objective, he is just giving you facts about both sides of the problem. Due to his position on this subject, he doesn’t have any emotions about the topic. “China, being ahead of the pack, will probably escape this trap. India will certainly feel the heat. There can be political turmoil, and both China and India are at risk.” Kaushik Basu posted this article on BBC on November 2, 2007. The importance of this date is that Mr. Kaushik has a bit of hind sight, since some of the statements were based on calculations that were done a few years ago, and have recently proven to be true.

Kris Meredith

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