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India’s inequality to dangerous level pg. 5 - Voice of the People By Don Aguiar pg. 7 - Fleeing to 'Nowhereland' pg. 8 - You the citizens decide his government is deliberately forcing millions of Indians into financial pg. 9 - Goa tourism, getting a bad ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections while lavishing vast riches on the super-wealthy. name T pg. 11 - Views on News The government is steering the country towards a “dramatic change of direc- pg. 12 - Media emperor of Kanara tion” that is rewarding the rich and punishing the poor by blocking access even to the most meager necessities. - Walter Nandalike pg. 14 - Purposeful living This is a systematic attack on India’s welfare program that is undermining the social safety net for those who can’t cope on their own. Once you start remov- pg. 15 - Come out of your ... ing any sense of government commitment, you quickly move into cruelty. pg. 16 - Book review pg. 17 - Inspiration! Millions of Indians already struggling to make ends meet faced “ruination” If access to Medicaid are removed, and housing subsidies cut, then the effect pg. 18 - Holy Mass celebrates the on people living on the margins will be drastic. eucharistic adoration To define “ruination”, it is: “Severe deprivation of food and almost no access pg 19 - Matrimonials to healthcare.” This assessment of Prime Minister Modi’s leadership in his almost 4 years in government is likely to spark debate across the political aisle as well as Subscriptions Rate: globally about the Indian Prime minister’s rapid drive towards heightened in- One year (anywhere in India) Rs. 500 equality. Three years (anywhere in India) Rs.1200 The policies pursued over the past four years seem deliberately designed to Five years (anywhere in India) Rs. 2000 remove basic protections from the poorest One year (outside India) Rs. 3500 It is profoundly important that international observers speak out about Modi’s E-paper Edition impact. This administration inherited a situation with inequality in India which sent anywhere in the world (by email) was prevalent from the very beginning and is now fanning the flames and worsening the situation. What is so disturbing is that Modi, rather than taking One year Rs. 600 or US $ 15 measures to ameliorate the problem, is taking measures to aggravate it. Two years Rs. 1000 or US $ 25 Top of the list of those measures was the slashed corporate tax rates. Can you Cover : Fleeing to 'Nowhereland': believe a country where the life expectancy is already in decline, particularly among those whose income is limited, giving tax breaks to billionaires and (Article on pg.7) (Contd.. on p. 4) Jun. 25 - Jul.1 2018 THE SECULAR CITIZEN 3 (Contd.. from p. 3) grams. the poverty line or below it. corporations while leaving millions of To combat poverty, policymakers It is contended that what amounts to Indians without basic protection for should take bold action, such as a Modis punishment of low-income In- the poorest?. jobs guarantee, healthcare for all and dians is based on an unfounded as- help for farmers to sell their produce sumption that such people are lazy, The Indian people similarly excoriate at a decent price. People who dis- work-shy and dedicated to be content Modi and his government for passing agree on politics can agree that no with their way of living. a tax bill that “overwhelmingly benefit- child in India should go to bed hun- ed the wealthy and worsened inequal- gry, no home should lack access to The scrutiny now falling on Modi is ity”. Also the policies pursued over a working sewer system, no illness significant in that India stands increas- the past four years seem deliberately should drive a family to bankruptcy. ingly as an outlier in the world com- designed to remove basic protec- munity. There is also a mounting body tions from the poorest, punish those As one of the world’s largest demo- of criticism emanating from global or- who are not in employment and make cratic society, India is a “land of stark ganizations warning India that unless even basic health care into a privilege. contrasts”. It is home to one in forty of it pulls back from its current course it the world’s 2,208 billionaires. will end up isolated from all other in- Middle-class Indians should take dustrialized, developed and develop- caution from thinking they were im- At the other end of the spectrum, mil- ing countries. mune from the lash of such policies, lions of Indians live in poverty. More as Modi’s assault bodes ill for society than half eke out an existence amid The statistics speak for themselves. In as a whole. The proposed slashing the kind of absolute deprivation nor- 1980, in terms of inequality, the rich- of interest rates will affect the middle mally associated with the under de- est one percent earned about 10% of classes and the retired investor every veloped world. national income. Fast forward to 2017 bit as much as the poor.