"Bush Bite Unto India Appetite" (Indian Middle Class Eating Too Much)

Apropos the news item "Bush bite unto India appetite" 'Indian Middle Class Eating Too Much'( by Chidanand Rajghatta TNN/ Americans Eat 5 Times More Than Indians by Subodh Varma /Times Insight Group (Times of India, May 4, 2008) www.timesofindia.com made interesting reading.

It is very interesting to note that India's increasing prosperity lead or contributed to the present world wide food crisis. In support to his statement he provided yet another unreliable and wrong statistics. Bush should have checked the real statistic before uttering such false and irresponsible statements. It really shows his inability to look into his own home affairs. This statement will definitely let loose to a great debate and argument among people. His own administration's Department of Agriculture's 2007 figures shows a whooping figure in the US citizens consumption of food (Twice that of European Unions and three times that of China) It is really a pity thing to note the ignorance of the nation's head about his own nation's real position. How can such a person play the role of a global police? Now who is to blame for this crisis? Americans/Indians/Chinese? It is always good for a nation's head to check with the concerned department before making such wild statements.

One cannot understand what Mr. Bush meant by the word "Middle class"? Fairchild in a dictionary of Sociology writes, "is a social class resting between the aristocracy and the proletariat on the social scale" but i feel that no definition can ever pin-point the accurate meaning of the middle class, nor is it a stable section of people. Through times the definitions of the middle class has changed. Yet we all use the term freely and perhaps in the context of the current period, can say what the middle class is.

Today in India, the middle class comprises the Government employees of class III and II categories, other wage earners of the same level in private sector and the not-too-well-off farmers and tradesmen. This is the middle class-the back bone of any nation.