India - -The place to go to address the BIG issues

On so many topics….if you want to address the really big issues, India is the place. For Amnon, in construction, this is where the “big stuff” is still being built, the infrastructure that will enable India to emerge from its “emerging country” status. In education, or poverty, you are dealing with some of the most unfortunate people on earth; this is not poverty at the margins. In women’s issues, the discrimination and horrors faced by girls and women are much more glaring than the west. In the west, we talk about whether a “glass ceiling” remains in the workforce; whether men are sharing more of the “second shift” of labor when husband and wife return from work. In India, there are issues like dowry burnings (when the new wife didn’t bring sufficient dowry), and honor killings. Given the preference for male children, and the willingness to take drastic measures to ensure you have a male child, some areas in India now have ratios of 60 boys to 40 girls. Big, big problems to address.