Having just seen this interesting dialogue on India , i can't but react to statements by people like Vidya who seemed thave been floored by the fact they live abroad , therefore everything is nice and fine there.Having travelled all over the globe and seen for myself how the west works ,the US and other nations have no doubt made rapid technological advances ( which is appreciated) there is a flip side to all this. They have the biggest footprint on the globe which effectively means that all the well being and high quality of living there is coming at a price at the cost of we Indians,other developing and vulnerable countries. The western model of development !! has today proved to be completely unsustainable thanks to their high consumptive style of living .
Unfotunatley many of us are madly following this path ( see the horrible way our big cities have been transformed into urban monsters through ,malls, decadent pepsi /coke culture etc.) .
Vidya, the US is using more water,energy,natural resourcess in percapita terms than any other country to attain that high quality of life that you are talking about. Certainly not an equitable world !!!
