Is India below the absolute abject poverty line?

According to reports, India's richest man, Gautama Adan, surpassed Amazon CEO Bozos and successfully topped the world's second richest man, whose $146.8 billion worth is second only to Tesla CEO Musk.

When it comes to India, most people's first impression is "clean and sanitary" street food, hanging full of people on the train, and "dumplings" like the Ganges ...... This is only one of In fact, this is only one side of the story, and the other side of India is not well known, is the rich ruled by the "oligarchy".

The study shows that India is one of the countries with the largest gap between the rich and the poor in the world. In this country, the top 1% and 10% of income earners account for 22% and 57% of the country's wealth, respectively, while the lowest 50% of income earners account for only 13% of total national income.

As the world's most populous country, India has more than 440 million people living below the absolute extreme poverty line. What is this concept? The 26 poorest countries in Africa do not have as many poor people as India when added together.

It has been said that economic inequality exists in all countries at a time when liberal economies are in full swing, but there are not many that are unequal to this degree. According to statistics, since 1980, the value of India's rich has grown at a rate that has almost doubled from 290% to 560%.

About how the Indian tycoons have completed the accumulation of wealth, you can refer to the model of Russian oligarchs to make a fortune. As we all know, India is not considered a modern country in the standard sense, the beginning of independent statehood failed to complete the land reform, the state failed to take back the land from the landlords, and there is no way to use agriculture to subsidize industry and industrialization.

Even Gandhi and Nehru, who are regarded by Indians as the "Mahatma" and "Father of the Nation," came from a noble families in a native state. They could fight against the British colonial rulers, but not against their own families.

Although Nehru later followed the example of the Soviet Union and launched the Five-Year Plan, without completing the basic socialist transformation, the effect would certainly be greatly reduced, which is why India's development in the twentieth century was so slow.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western liberalness values were considered to have won the final victory, and many former Soviet Union countries have engaged in "shock therapy", that is, selling state assets, and liberalizing the country to allow foreign capital to move in.

The first time I saw the film, I was able to see it. Of course, even if the government sells it cheaply, it is not the ordinary people can afford to buy, or have little money in hand to do.

In other words, the wave of the times will sweep everyone, but there are opportunities to stand in the wind, only a small number of people. These businessmen seize the opportunity to get rich, and then use their capital and politicians to complete the depth of binding, and become the new era of vested interests.

For example, the article mentioned the beginning of India's new richest man, Adan, he can from the low caste-poor boy step by step to today, relying not only on their talent and hard work but also on the Indian Prime Minister Lodi's escort.

Lodi was a minister in Gujarat when he befriended Adan, who was then a small business owner. The two men bet on each other, with Adan spending money to help Lodi build momentum in the election and Lodi using his position to give Adan the green light to expand his business.

During the 2014 Indian elections, Adan even threw money at him, allowing Lodi to travel around the country on his private jet to canvass for votes. Lodi also returned the favor when he took office, allowing Adan to eat all the government dividends.

For example, land worth 600-900 rupees a square meter was sold to Adan at a price of no more than 32 rupees a square meter, or the National Bank was turned into the Adan family's ATM, from which they could withdraw as much loan as they needed.

And whenever Adan is in deep trouble for its business violations, the investigators will be transferred for various reasons, the punishment can only end. No wonder Indian citizens always say that Adan is the real prime minister of this country, Lodi is only here to clear the way for him.

Other Indian tycoons have monopolized most of the wealth of this country by the same method, forming a vested interest group that is as rich as the country. But these oligarchs, who have completed deep ties with politicians, are also the biggest stumbling blocks on the road to India's development.

One thing that vested interests of every era have in common is their refusal to fundamentally change the existing economic system. Because once the monopoly of the vested interests on social resources is broken, opening up avenues for ordinary people to rise, they are in the clouds overlooking the earth, the gods may fall from the altar.

This is also the essence of the so-called modernization revolution, which is written in our political books: to break the shackles that imprison the development of productive forces, liberate them and make them compatible with social development.

But the problem is that India's modernization reforms failed from the very beginning and because the privatization changes happened so quickly that a huge monopoly group of interests was formed in the country prematurely. This group enjoyed the dividends of the times while using them to consolidate its position and hinder the progress of the times, thus falling into a deadly cycle.

Now, under the dual effect of the new crown epidemic and the spillover effect of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, more and more Indian tycoons are setting their eyes on foreign countries again, emigrating to rich countries in Europe and America with the wealth scraped from the Indian nationals, leaving only the middle class in a dilemma and the bottom-class people who are completely lying flat in the same place.

At the end of the story, the Brahmans and Kshatriya abandoned India, a land blessed by the gods, leaving only the Vanish and Shudders and countless "untouchables" to continue to suffer the fires of hell.