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India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

This comment comes often in online forums. India is not run by one person. There's no need to only solve one problem. Why can't they have technological progress like space programs, high speed Internet and at the same time work on other problems too?

In another news India's number of AIDS patients are fallen by 57%. See other statistics and you will realize that addressing malnourishment, infant mortality rates, middle class expansion all are underway together.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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post #5

1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

1Gbps help make solving problems easier.

For the Indian government it also makes an entirely new set of challenges(problems)

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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post #4

1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

This comment comes often in online forums. India is not run by one person. There's no need to only solve one problem. Why can't they have technological progress like space programs, high speed Internet and at the same time work on other problems too? In another news India's number of AIDS patients are fallen by 57%. See other statistics and you will realize that addressing malnourishment, infant mortality rates, midd…

> See other statistics and you will realize that addressing malnourishment, infact mortality rates, middle class expansion all are underway together.

I remember reading that the malnourishment problem in India has gotten worse, not better.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

Depends on how you see it: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ne011212Onc...

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

Would you rather a car deliver the food or a bullock cart?

The tradeoff between between spending money on high speed internet and spending money on the malnourished children is lessened by spending it on the internet.

The internet helps grow the infrastructure that helps the malnourished children sustain the rest of their lives.

You don't deserve a downvote, it's a valid point. I wish the downvoting system on here required a reason.

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