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Just read the news the other day. It seems India knocked South Africa off the number one spot for the most number of HIV cases/patients in the world. Anybody from India? And to the South Africans...any comments on the loss? lol.

Wow. Never would have guessed. I wonder why.

i have indian origin and went there 4 times :/

what is there to say?

bla bla bla india = future powerhouse bla bla bla, but fact is no matter how much the country progresses, the hole between the filthy rich and the just plain filthy just keeps on growing.

Hrmm sounds like the U.S.

And every other country for that matter.

yeah its true, future powerhous etc. theres a point there. but so is china. and china is the most populated country now. im not sure what rank they are in the HIV polls, but deffinitely not NO 1.

i guess safe sex isnt practised much there. and through watching a few tamil/indian movies over the years, it's acceptable to conclude savage raping still occurs there but goes unnoticed due to the corruption. savage raping occurs everywhere, even here in malaysia, but if you do it, you're fucked as hell here.

and speaking of the gap between the rich and poor, its true. same goes for indonesia. my parents went to india about 10 years ago, and they said, if you needed small change for cash, go ask the beggars. some beggar begged my dad at some temple stairway, askin for 2 rupees. my dad only had a 100, so the beggar took the 100, and returned 98 rupees to my dad. and that guy said, if you needed change, ask any of the beggars. tehy actually make a decent living out of begging over there.

oh azrael, you've got indian blood? cool. im not indian but a ceylonese tamil. but not pure though. i'm like the 3rd or 4th generation of ceylonese tamils here in malaysia. so basically we lost our roots long time ago.

Well, I can name a few exceptions.

perhaps they did exceed in number, but i still think South Africa has most ppl with HIV compared to the population. 20-25 % or so have HIV in South Africa, fucking insane.

Its not surprising.. I went to India last year, and the amount of poverty is pretty staggering. And although the poor in cities may have a small opportunity to learn about HIV, those who live in small villages all around the country (something like 40-50% of the population) have absoloutely no contact with the outside world.

such as?

A guy I work with went to India last year and saw crowds of people just shambling past a withered corpse on the floor of the train station. Yummy.

Hellraiser Xes: my grandparents moved to Mozambique (Lourenço Marques, now known as Maputo), where my parents were born. my parents went back to India for a good while, then back to Mozambique, and a few years after it became independent they came here to Portugal.




i agree that there's a lack of information. low literacy (75/53% m/f) doesn't help. also according to wikipedia 70% of the population is rural.

it's just strange because india is advanced in science and has a HUGE film industry (it's the world's largest movie producer i think) but at the same time many people are left behind in all of this.

Belgium, Sweden, Norway. Things like social welfare might be alien to you, but not to us. Here, everyone profits from those with fat wallets.

I'm indian let me show you my bow and arrow to prove it.

I'm in the wrong country.

Telemarketers and the Bollywood assembly line of shit.

Telemarketing's a huge industry in India, but only because the multinationals can get away with paying people comparativley tiny wages (comparative to Western wages, but still above the national average :( ) to work shitty hours and speak a language that they're learning on the hop.

very true. they basically rule the information technology world. but you have to understand that this only involves the city folk. as you said, 70% of the indian population are made of rural folk. and i believe technology hasnt reached there yet.

as for the huge film industry, it's REALLY big. they produce like more than 1000 movies a year collectively (do understand that bollywood only involves the northern territories, where Hindi is spoken. the southerners have their own industry, along with a totally different set of actors and language, tamil, telugu, malayalam etc). and trust me, the indian movies dominate only by quantity, not quality. 75% of the movies are low budgeted and suck big time. their heroes still fly from one building to another and can dodge a hundred bullets without getting hit. but he only throws a punch an mr bad guy flies a few feet.

i said biggest, i didn't say best

didn't know about the southern industry though, i always thought that hindi was the most widely-spoken language of them all. i mean i know there are tons of languages but i thought hindi was the like India's English.

well india is a HUGE country and hundreds of different languages are spoken if im not mistaken. Hindi is their official language. if im not mistaken, india's government rule is similar to australia's and america. is it federal rule, they call it? so the southern part of india is ruled by the opposition, who demands their system to be run using their own language. so places like Tamil Nadu, starting from the education system right up to the governance, is all using Tamil language. Hindi is not practiced there despite being the official indian language. i guess it's because the northerners and southerners hate each other (remember, the northerners are the aryan-persian people, and the southerners are the dravidians).

oh did you know, india has an industry for exporting cadavers? medical schools here in malaysia get their cadavers from india, and i heard it's quite big money for them (the indian industry).

and i heard my dad say the mortality rate over there is pretty high. everyday, you can see by the ganghes river, hundreds of people wait in queues to cremate their dead. and the queue stretches as far as a few hundred metres. as soon as one body is done, the next one goes, and so on and on. and i stand corrected, the ashes are released into the river ganghes. so care for a swim, guys?