India's proud heritage

[Southie]

Re: India’s proud heritage

@Samir_Mirchandani

why don’t you ever read your own references before jumping to stupid conclusions unsupported by the same references? You do want to seem fair to minorities but when you fail to read or interpret data correctly you are committing a disservice to them. Let’s take this case:

1. The ‘Surprise Surprise’ article you quote bases its arguments on a measure called MCPE. The MCPE values it cites are Sikh 55.3, Christians 51.4, Hindus 37.5 and Muslims 32.7. Does this look like caused by anyone discriminating against anyone? Are you now going to claim Hindus are discriminated against by Sikh and Christians? Do you see how close Hindu and Muslim numbers are? Isn’t that the real surprise? Isn’t that consistent with the Columbia University study which I posted earlier?

2. Infrastructure is poor EVERYWHERE in India. That is why not just Muslims but Hindus who form 84% of population also have almost identical MCPE and poverty rate. Between them they cover 98% of India - so why do you people make it a Muslim problem? It is an Indian problem

3. Your own Surprise Suprise article also explicitly says what I said about Muslim girls - "But for every 1,000 Muslim boys, only 10 enter post-graduation; and for Muslim girls the figure is just 2.

Interestingly, for boys, Hindus and Muslims have parity in Bengal’s rural regions, according to NSSO. For every 1,000 Hindu male rural students, 5 will complete post-graduation, the same figure for Muslim boys in rural areas." Do you understand what means? Muslim boys are sent to school and girls aren’t!

Now let’s go to the underlying NSSO study that the above Surprise Surprise article is based upon.

I will let you read it at leisure from the above link; however note a very important and critical demographic difference in urban muslim population -

“In urban areas, the percentages of households and population following
Hinduism were about 81 and 79, following Islam were about 13 and 16 and following Christianity were about 3 and 3, respectively”

Do you see the issue here? 13% of Muslim households have to support 16% of Muslim population whereas 81% of Hindu households have to support only 79% of population - meaning there is an intrinsic difference in family sizes and number of income-earners being the same (1 per household) the per capita suffers between the two communities which explains even the tiny difference between the two in poverty rate and MCPE.

Data speaks for itself. You cannot blame Modi or RSS for cooking up data because these come from surveys prior to Modi. The NSSO and the Columbia studies though using very different samples draw consistent results.

Interpreting data is tough stuff, especially surveys this large (the NSSO sample size was almost half a million households I think) and deep (several dozen variables) - reporters and half-baked pundits write interpretations drawing selectively from the data. It is up to intelligent and objective people to invest their own time and brains to understand what the data says rather than what these half baked dumbos report

I started this with the intent of being polite. I read the first sentence. And saw the word stupid.

Sorry. I don’t intend to go down that road.