RAJ SHEKHAR JHA
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron does not understand economics. He understands only textbook economics of paradigms and econometric models. Hunger, despair and insecurity do not figure in his economics. As a benevolent gesture, he made education costlier and sparked a student demonstration, throwing London’s traffic out of gear. He pruned the social welfare scheme that sheltered the poor and vulnerable and set the stage for a volcanic eruption of seething anger and frustration.
Britons’ worst fears are coming true: they have lost control of their language as far more Indians and Chinese speak and write better English, once considered their monopoly. Not just language, but they are losing control of their culture, as London would demonstrate. The culture in that city is anything but British, notwithstanding British landmarks and architecture and institutions. The day is not far off when a Caribbean would get elected and occupy No 10 Downing Street!
And Britain would wake up to the truth that outsourcing the police is far more economical and even effective than maintaining a huge police force at the ratio of 2:1 for every rioter, whose number seems to be burgeoning. If nothing, the Delhi police know how to manhandle the crowds as they have been doing all along. What the Indian cricket team could not do, the Delhi police can – bring honour to the country!
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