It is shameful that rediff has sought to sensationalize this issue and tried to portray India in a poor light.
Reporting the number of murders in terms of figures and thus concluding that India leads the world in Murder rates is completely misleading. Generally the calculation is always in terms of percentages. If you compare the total population of India VS the other countries and then calculate the percentage of the figures as reported then you will find that actually India will have a lower percentage of murders in comparison.
India today is acknowledged as one of the fastest growing economies and as a nation to be reckoned it. Rediff writing such a negative article and highlighting information that is inaccurate and misleading tantamount's to it being anti national and unpatriotic.
And for the rest of us, let us not use every opportunity to bring the race/religion issue into this. Most murders are crimes of passion and generally between people who are known to each other, of the same family and therefore of the same religion. Do not always try to turn this into a communal issue.
Many people attribute India's problems to be the ever growing population. That is just partly correct. Lack of education, religious bias, holding on to superstitious traditions, preference of state/religious/political identities over a single national identity are some of the biggest issues that is holding India back.
We are one country that works very hard to highlight all our faults and
RE:twisting the facts
by Eric Chhapgar on Jun 28, 2008 04:08 PM Permalink
criticize each and everyone for all the problems that our country faces.Maybe its time that we worked equally hard to try and resolve these problems also.Everybody thinks Somebody will do it and Anybody can do it and finally Nobody does it.
