Thinking about Congress. For 50 years they have exploited the poverty in India and extended it. This has allowed them to be socialists and control everything from banks to steel, from airlines to telephones. Keep people poor, ineducated, hungry and in poor health with a life span of 40 years abd they are grateful for subsidised kerosene and inedible rations. Import restrictions, sky high taxes, licences to relatives or cronies to create monopolies and keep the middle class under control. Deny people telephones, gas connections or building permits and they will be humbly begging to pay bribes. When I returned to India in 1987 I had to wait 4 years for a telephone. A colour TV cost RS.40000, an AC RS. 36000. Today they are Rs. 10000. Remember the loan melas when bundles of cash were distributed to party workers and public sector banks left with NPAs of 15%. Today Congress is fighting for our farmers by collapsing the WTO talks. These poor wretches who have been trying to scratch a living from poor quality soil and committing suicide in droves. Why not by cheap wheat subsidised by US and EU taxpayers and organise the farmers into huge cooperatives to grow two or three cash crops a year for export. Rubbish talk? Until around 1995 milk sweets would be banned in Delhi during summer. Thanks to Amul India is awash in milk today. Lijjat Papad and the Dabbawallahs of Mumbai are others. First though we have to break our shackles. 'C' stands for crime, corruption, cancer, Communists and Congress and of course charity which enriches their homes