{"id":187,"date":"2007-02-10T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/02\/india-the-superpower.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:40:41","slug":"india-the-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/02\/india-the-superpower.html","title":{"rendered":"India the Superpower ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/02\/08\/news\/international\/pluggedin_murphy_india.fortune\/index.htm\">article<\/a> on India&#8217;s superpower status, and some eye-popping stats to go with it. Take for example :<\/p>\n<p><strong>The adult literacy rate is 61 percent (behind Rwanda and barely ahead of Sudan)<br \/><\/strong><br \/>While I&#8217;m shocked to see it behind Rwanda, 61 sounds a high number; I thought it&#8217;s be less than that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India has more people with HIV than any other country.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Oh my God !<\/p>\n<p>Essentially the article states the unvarnished truth, that India must not count it&#8217;s chickens before they&#8217;re hatched. India can be a superpower but it&#8217;s not one now, and all the chest-thumping over accomplishments which don&#8217;t touch the majority won&#8217;t make it one :<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; . . . the future will not belong to India unless it takes action to embrace it, and that means more than high-profile vanity projects like putting a man on the moon or building the world&#8217;s tallest tower. It means showing that the world&#8217;s largest democracy can deliver real progress to the hundreds of millions who have never used the phone, much less the Internet. And in important ways, that just isn&#8217;t happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-2163411636165738460?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money has an interesting article on India&#8217;s superpower status, and some eye-popping stats to go with it. Take for example : The adult literacy rate is 61 percent (behind Rwanda and barely ahead of Sudan)While I&#8217;m shocked to see it behind Rwanda, 61 sounds a high number; I thought it&#8217;s be less than that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"CNN Money has an interesting article on India&#8217;s superpower status, and some eye-popping stats to go with it. Take for example : The adult literacy rate is 61 percent (behind Rwanda and barely ahead of Sudan)While I&#8217;m shocked to see it behind Rwanda, 61 sounds a high number; I thought it&#8217;s be less than that.&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}