Nothing new to update

For those that actually follow this thing:

I'm probably not going to update for at least another few weeks because I've got a lot of IS things to do before I can be free to be in India without constraint of something I "need" to do. IS was fun, but I have a lot of frustrations with my project, one of them being that this project just will go absolutely nowhere, except to help my "future anthro skills" and gain me a letter grade and possibly even 4 credits at Colby.

I feel guilty for researching a group of poor people who are currently being gipped out of development because it is primarily a western model, and not an Indian model. The consumerist model doesn't work here. India is too complex to be fit into a model and told that "everything will be ok in 30 years, the first few will suck for this group of people and benefit this group of people", but ultimately, all it is doing is keeping some people in the same place, and in some cases, making this place less and less secure with each passing day. As a result, farmers in general have invested in their kids' education, and said "to hell with farming." One of the people I interviewed even said the following: "Damn my generation to hell" in English. I was surprised. How can you DAMN a group of people for the sake of a country? Aren't they a part of it?

More surprisingly, this group of people, farmers, and primary producers in general, make up 70% of the Indian population.

Whose development is this anyways?

Update coming soon.

Hasan