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Around the world in 2000,
via Asia and Madagascar.
Mysore (India)
Bec2004-09-18 18:03:27
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Bangalore
Mysore is just a small place compared to Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka State, which has become a big 4 million people industrial city. I nevertheless titled this page "Mysore" because I'm showing more photos of Mysore than of Bangalore. Hi tech industries and research institutes are not as photogenic as a Maharaja's palace!
MG Road (MG for Mahatma Gandhi of course), is Bangalore's fashionable shopping street in the city center. Ordinary people shop in the Gandhi Nagar area near the train station.
The Archaeological Museum, set in the well manicured Clubbon Park laid out by the British in 1864, was only fairly interesting and the Technological Museum next door was a farce!
Bangalore has undergone dramatic growth since 1950 as the result of the Central Indian Goverment's policy to give priority to hi technology industries and post graduate education over agricultural development and primary school education. The results have been remarkable for the high caste urban yuppy minority that has benefited from that deliberate choice but they have been catastrophic for the much larger majority of village dwellers who have remained poor and illiterate.
Countryside
As I looked at the rice paddies out of the bus window, I could not help wondering how it had been possible for the educated elite to manipulate the democratic process in such a manner as to ensure that most of the public funds that had become available during the last five decades would have been expended to further their own minority interests at the expense of the majority of other Indian citizens.
Why did the peasants not get organised to form a party demanding the redistribution of farmland, demanding schools, roads and rural clinics?
II would have understood that the peasants would not have been able to do anything had India been a military dictatorship like Myanmar
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See photographs from:
India Gallery
