Selective Amnesia

A spade is not a spade when it’s the 200 million strong Middle-class India we’re talking of.

That’s right. Nothing is what it seems, when it comes to India. There are uncomfortable truths lurking behind every piece of good news, and scary details are swept under the carpet. India is Schrödinger’s cat when it comes to its shining-ness. That’s right. Everything is a conspiracy by evil, white multi-national corporations to sell us – stupid, gullible Indians – more products and kick us deeper into the pit of consumerism.
Movies are but carefully crafted advertising that widens the gap between the rich and the poor and between the socialists and the free-market fundamentalists. Our roads haven’t improved over the last 10 years, only more villages have been eaten up by the hungry, rampaging cities. People haven’t bettered their lives at all. Our ancient way of living, our culture has been corrupted and we should immediately stop international trade, which, we all know, is just a conspiracy to sell us stuff. Our software prowess is but an illusion and we are all cyber coolies. In short, nothing good is happening in India, and we should all just close our doors and let the government take care of us.