{"id":328,"date":"2005-05-16T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/05\/16\/ab-tak-ek-sau-unnis\/"},"modified":"2005-05-16T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T11:22:15","slug":"ab-tak-ek-sau-unnis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200505\/ab-tak-ek-sau-unnis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ab tak ek sau unnis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! As I read this, there are 119<\/a> comments on Yazad’s post about poverty and if Yazad’s blog weren’t acting up a bit, I suspect there would be more. Unfortunately, much of the debate seems to be centred on Amit and others trying to get Dilip to confess to something. I don’t see the point. The question is not what he believes in his heart, but what he conveys through his article. I must insist that we look only<\/i> at what the article says and not at any subsequent clarifications that he gives at Yazad’s place. The reason is simple. An article on Rediff and the Hindu reaches lakhs of ill-informed readers who aren’t going to come over to Yazad’s place to get further education on the topic. They are going to leave with an “overwhelming impression” and it is that impression that I am concerned with<\/a>.
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\nThen Abinandanan responds<\/a> to my post, saying… I am not sure exactly what. The points he raises would have been answered if he had actually completed reading my post. But let me try again. <\/p>\n

Abi points out that in conclusion<\/i> Dilip says that he has no doubts in his mind that reforms must happen. But why must they? Go read Dilip’s article<\/a> again. He says that he sees more<\/i> poor people than 15 years ago. Poverty was reducing even during the Socialist era. The green revolution reduced poverty from around 55% to 40% over a period of 25-odd years (figures quoted from memory – don’t hold me to them). If you thought that this trend had reversed<\/i>, would you still support reforms? No, don’t give me that stuff about pursuing reforms in “some other way”. That is not going to work. If a doctor replaces a treatment that has been improving your condition too slowly for your comfort with a treatment that makes you worse, what would be the first thing the doctor would do? A doctor I trust would first stop the new treatment<\/i> and put you back on the old one. He wouldn’t tinker with the new treatment. It has failed – by the only standard of success that matters. So why does Dilip think that reforms should continue? I find no answer in the article. The only way the article can be consistent is if by “reforms” he means something completely and fundamentally different from free market reforms. Or perhaps he has some other reason to continue to support reforms – reasons he hasn’t mentioned. But… shouldn’t he mention them to provide a balanced view<\/i>? <\/p>\n

So here is the reading comprehension question. Based on the article, explain to me why<\/i> Dilip supports reforms. If you can’t, I am right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! As I read this, there are 119 comments on Yazad’s post about poverty and if Yazad’s blog weren’t acting up a bit, I suspect there would be more. Unfortunately, much of the debate seems to be centred on Amit and others trying to get Dilip to confess to something. I don’t see the point. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}