India, a more equitable growth...

For a start, look at the map. Now, try and look at India and China. The glow of bright lights registers across the whole nation in India's case. Not the same for China as you can see. Three reasons to explain this.

One, China has all of its population clustered within the well-lit region. Not likely. Two, India's growth is more evenly spread across the whole country. Three, I fudged the map. You decide.

Why a revolution awaits China

Have heard the whole world go gaga(or yin-yang) about China. But still firmly believe that a revolution to overthrow the current regime is not far away.

Think about this. Currently, there are two sources of information about China. The government story which is alway positive on the economy and shows what a progressive regime it really is. Second, the bits and pieces of dirty information about strikes, pollution etc which we get from non-official sources once in a while.

Now consider this, people usually overplay the good news and underplay the bad news. So just think about how much of the bad news (which is the only source coming from non-official and therefore presumably independent & unbiased channels) we are not getting to hear.

Something is wrong...Its just not coming out yet. Watch this space....

Why India & China can never go the high-skilled route to development

Simple. Two very large populations with lots of poor, uneducated average people.

India must provide employment or atleast the opportunity of employment to all - even to its most illiterate and uneducated citizens. Its a democracy after all and no government can risk losing votes. The only way this will be done is by focussing on the ITIs rather than the IITs.

China too faces a similar dilemma - or it risks a revolution which is slow in coming compared to India's five-yearly elections but more devastating when it does.

The other point of view on this is that the populations of these two countries is so large that they should be able to absorb all forms of skilled or unskilled labour within them. Even a 10% highly educated population for these two countries is a combined population of 200 million!!!