White flight : Evidence from India

White flight means migration by middle class white people from city to suburbs in British, American and European cities to go for better housing and social environment and move away from Muslims, blacks and immigrants.

Based on my limited observation I guess similar thing is happening.

Here it is Muslims, and rural people or dominating landed OBCs (coming from village to city) who are prompting "white flight" in addition to lure of better housing and facilities on periphery of cities as cities are poorly managed, no space to grow, very less privacy and many times unhealthy water and air conditions. So those who can afford move out.

Chandni chowk of Delhi or Shivajinagar of Bangalore or Bhindi bajar,byculla area of Mumbai are prime examples which are slowly converting into Muslim ghettos. Even in my hometown the place where I used to live earlier you would find a man with no job and a millionaire livieng in same mohalla but now it only has migrant laborer or purely antisocial elements as its residents.

Many people leave these areas because they fear bad influence on children , or restricted movement of women and girls or lack of equal standard society.


Recently when I was going throguh RBI website there was a list of minority population districts in India.I think this approach is very simplistic. better approach to measure extent ghettoize would be some kind of standard deviation. Take percentage of Muslims to total population say in a district or city and then choose lowest administrative unit in the city or area say a ward or revenue circle to find out % population of Muslims in that unit. Find its deviation from citywide number and square it and find root average of all such deviations. If they are concentrated in few areas this number would be high.

to avoid outliers stop when 90% population is covered as one or two families would be living in other areas which will grossly affect number.

Similar ratio can be found comparing average umber of Muslim students enrolled in area, ratio of Muslim workers in place where they are working and similar participation rate.

Mind you it does not measure relative deprivation but rather extend of segregation in areas. This would give policymakers a chance to calibrate their responses better suited to local needs rather than using blunt instruments all over India.

Beijing Olympic : India swimmers raise bar and hopes too

Though website of Beijing Olympic is not as navigable as was in Athens but still Indian swimmers (4 this time - largest ever contingent i guess) raised hopes for future. First of all this time all of them had qualified as against to wild card entries in past. So they got better heats to compete .Though none could qualify for further rounds but at least they can now hope for podium finish in Asian games and even win some medals as their ranking among their Asian counterparts were invariably among top 8 in Asia.
Here is the short list which I compiled

event - swimmer - overall - among asians
200 m freestyle - virdhawal - 48 - 7th
50 m freestyle - virdhawal - 40 - 2nd
100 m freestyle - virdhawal - 42 - 3rd
100 m breaststroke - sejwal - 38 - 5
200 m breaststroke - sejwal - 36 - 5
100 m butterfly - ankur - 6 - 57
200 m butterfly - rehan - 40- 9

Pakistani movies on terrorism

I have watched only two of them - silent water of Sabhia sumar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357283/

here is my comment on same

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357283/usercomments-13


and the other one is more famous khuda ke liye
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068956/usercomments-26


I would not consider "silent water" as Pakistani movie as most actors are Indian. director herself is pretty offbeat and is married to a Hindu Indian !!!

But one point about that movie is that it shows how did Taliban and ISI recruited their foot soldiers and how American effort to curb communism ended creating another and mroe dangerous monster named "Islamic terrorism"

actually Americans should never have supported dictators against communists. Communism as a philosophy is so deeply flawed that it would crumble under its own weight as it did in Russia, china and Vietnam and will do so in N Korea and Vietnam in future But Islamic monster is bigger and difficult to control as west is experiencing now.