Expose sur " Changing India "

This document is an extract from Farewell to an Indian I Hardly Knew ; it was written by Anand GIRIHARADAS and entitled Changing India. It was published on July 4th 2009  in The New York Times. The progress is an improvment, a development or technical change as scientific or social advance witch contributes to making world a better place. This text is about the progress of India during these last years.

First of all, the evolution of India has been a longand radical one. For example within the text it says " India was changing when I arrived and has changed dramatically, viscerally, improbably in these 2,000 days." We can also learn that the Indian population are embracing modern technology, citing the quote " The young people were finding in their cellphones a first zone of individual identity." This quote illustrates how the young Indian population are utilizing technology in such personal ways, technology will hold a large position within the future of India. A industrial revolution took place iin Idealsas it resembles the migration of farmer and countrymen to the cities, urbanizing the region and the country; that idea get shown within " Indians from languorous villages to pulsating cities were making difficult new choices todie other than where they were born."

Then, it’s obvious that India is a traditional land where the inequalities between men and women are very present. There are two reasons to explain these inequalities : The first reason is the traditional infanticide practice. In fact, the number of girls in India has been steadily falling for the past 20 years so the majority of the Indian population are men. Therefore families get rid of the girl by abortion or removal.Furthermore, a survey from Canada’s University of Toronto suggests that at least ten million female fetuses have been aborted in India over the past two decades. It’s estimated that every year (500,000) five hundred thousand girls disappear in India. The second reason is the dowry system. Indeed, the dowry system implies that girls give money to the boy's family, so it is financially more attractive to have a son. So boys can take care of the family business of the parents in their old age and they can carry on the family name and bloodline too. So for families to have a boy is real asset . That is why, in three generations, India has become a male dominated-society.

Finally, India is far from being a homogeneous country. Indeed, there are many problems to solve in this country as infanticide , the strong Cast system, poverty and women being harassed and raped. But we must also under line the fact that the India changed economically and also technologically. The Indians are now more open minded. If Indian's technology is rapidly envolving the minds are not:Tradition are strong; the Cast system and the tradition of the dowry leave women but also a lot of poor people excluded from the progress made.

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