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Tomorrows
India
WALT understand what are the
future challenges for India
Key questions:
What is the view of India
from India?
How is globalisation
shaping India’s worldview
and sense of place in the
world?
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There are different opinions on New India’s economic
success within the country itself. Much of these different
views is owing to the varying experiences of globalisation.
Some people feel extremely confident that New India is the
way forward, the others either feel excluded from it.
Annual gross income in India has risen from US million
$422,455.12 in 2003 to US million $580,914.50 in 2007.
Annual disposable income in India has risen from US million
$403,114.93 in 2003 to US million $589,081.53 in 2007.
GDP measured at purchasing power parity (million
international $) has risen from 3,003,617 in 2003 to 4,555,318
in 2007.
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• Read the interviews with four
Bangalore citizens. They all answered
two questions:
• What do you think about the new
wealth in India?
• What can the world learn from India?
• As a class, or in small groups, read all
four interviews and discuss the
similarities and differences in their
answers.
Adventure Travel Consultant
Fine Arts Student
IT Consultant
Chappa Picker
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Who is most excited about the new wealth in India? Who is
the least excited?
Plot each person onto the Continuum and give reasons in the
boxes. There are no right answers – you just need to justify
your choices.
Is it really possible to measure people’s excitement?
What else could we measure from these interviews?
Do you think there’s a link between wealth and excitement –
are the richer people more excited about India’s future?
Are there any other links?
Bollywood is a
beacon of hope for
many young people in
India.
On 26 January 2006
(Independence Day) it
released its most popular
film yet, Rang de Basanti.
Read the review
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Oscar nominated Rang de Basanti opens
with Sue, a young London based filmmaker, going to India to shoot a film
about the Indian revolutionaries her
grandfather wrote about in his diary fifty
years before.
She flies to Delhi and tries to find five
young people to star in her film. But noone is interested. To them the idea of
being a revolutionary, and giving up your
life for your beliefs, is the stuff text-books
are made of. They would rather shop,
socialise and party. Then, something
happens, and the five embark on a
journey that will change their lives…
This is not a run-of-the-mill type of film. It
tells us so much about the ups and
downs of being a young Indian today.
Thrilling, and not to be missed
Watch this clip and see what
you think.
• What parts of the clip did you recognise from
the review?
What did you like about it?
Can you see any evidence of globalisation in
it?
What do you think ‘A generation awakens’
means at the start of the clip?
1991 India decided to open its economy up
to the world. Until then it had not allowed
many foreign companies to work here.
This is one of the reasons why it is
changing at a dizzying pace.
Do you think its right that
companies do this?
Does it destroy cultures
or improve them?
Multinational companies have been bendingover-backwards to appeal to Indian consumers
in recent years.
Do you think its right that
companies do this?
Does it destroy cultures
or improve them?
Multinational companies have been bendingover-backwards to appeal to Indian consumers
in recent years.