New India

The hit-film slumdog megaire is a well-known film about three children from the slums. Many populate sop up watched this film, and although its plot line is thrilling, the perceptions it gives about India as a whole being scurvy and dirty and that everyone is a thief, killer or prostitute are misleading although the slums are poor and dirty, not everyone in India lives in a slum. Not everyone who does live in a slum is a thief and will do anything for money, and many population in India are well-enough off and have normal lives like the westbound worldly concern does.Fashion is becoming a colossal part of New India and the western fashion is becoming more and more popular than traditional Indian clothes. Indias fashion imports are rising by 11% a year. This shows that Indias economy is expanding because the country send word now spend money on luxury clothing like Gucci and Giorgio Armani where as before they could not. 350 million Indians alike address English as well as their native language and as English is the worlds main trading language this means that they can easily trade and communicate with more economically developed countries (MEDCs) who can help them develop.India is a huge part of the IT industry 40% of the worlds IT industry is based in Bangalore. This and other factors mean that Indias economy is rapidly expanding. You may have heard it said that India is at the centre of the world and this is true geographically and economically. India has had an open economy since 1991, center that Trans-national companies (TNCs) can set up centres and factories there. This generates a lot of income for India as 30 major multi-national firms like Lloyds TSB have Indian call-centres and lots of TNCs like Chanel and Coca-Cola have factories there.India is an attractive place for TNCs to set up a factory because in India there are over 1. 1 billion people and a high percentage of these people are of legal working age. Many of these people work for l ittle amounts of money meaning that the TNC will get more. The factories that are being built in India are creating lots more jobs for people to work in. These jobs are being created in the urban center so many people who live in rural areas and do farming work, are locomote to the global cities like Bangalore and Mumbai.An drill of one of these people is Ganesh RC who moved from a rural area of India to Bangalore and is now the manager of the Royal Habitat Hotel. Ganesh says that globalisation and the building of factories in cities means that his hotel is getting more customers and money. Ganesh also told us that the traditional Indian food which used to be a favourite is now less popular and the children who stay at his hotel just fate KFC and pizza all the time so they have to order it in. even so although globalisation affects Ganesh positively and his attempt to gain employment and money by moving from his rural home to Bangalore paid off, not everyones does. Many farmers and families from rural areas of India move to global cities in the hope of getting a job and consequently being able to educate their children. However many people find that once they have moved to the city they dont have the skills need for the jobs available, for example IT skills to work in an IT call-centre or another part of the hugely successful IT industry.Because of this lack of skill that they previously did not require, they cannot work and have no money or house. This leads to them having to live in a slum. The rate at which Indias economy is expanding is causing a great increase in the wealth for many of Indias people. However many people are also being left behind, meaning that the rich and poor live literally brass by side and the wealth gap is colossal. In India 300 million people live in absolute poverty in slums and one trine of the worlds malnourished children live in India.The quality of life in slums is poor and disease ridden with several hundred thousand c hildren dying all(prenominal) year from dirty water. However in some slums life is better. For example in the Dharavi slums the 19 million people that live there make 700,000 pounds a year from recycling the citys waste. Thats a lot of money to make from something that other people just threw away However whether you hypothesise that this makes up for the fact that they are living in or right next to the waste, is up to you India is 12 times the size of the UK covering over 3. million sq km.This means that throughout the country there is not only a huge difference in wealth and living conditions precisely also in the landscape. These different environments change how the people there react and survive in them. For example, in India there is a desert outside the city of Jaisalmer in Bikaner but also in India is Cherrapunji which is one of the wettest places in the world, getting 11,000mm of rainfall per year. The people who live in Jaisalmer have adapted to life in the desert and the people who live in Cherrapunji have adapted to rain.In Cherrapunji the people face a lot more problems than in Bangalore because Cherrapunji can often get make full which means that people cant get to work or school and also might have their drinking water polluted. This is another example of a place which is facing huge challenges and not really getting much of the advantages or rewards from the expanding economy. pic In conclusion, the new India is giving some people huge advantages and more money through providing jobs, using/learning skills and by starting to develop the country generally from a newly industrialised country (NIC) to an MEDC.However most of these advantages arent trickling down from the cities to the people who now need it the most and are living in rubbish, by recycling rubbish. In the future it is achievable for India to help the people who really need it and overcome the problems facing parts of the country and then they can use advantages that they have by being at the centre of the world to its full extent. New India is fast developing and gaining more money and status but is it leaving people and old traditions behind in order to?