by Tres Mali Scott

Created on: December 10, 2008   Last Updated: June 05, 2009

When reading about and researching India, the traffic, language, social, and economic problems sound like Mexico. The U.S. Department of State on Travel to India's states travel by road in India is dangerous, fast reckless driving without consideration for the rules of the road. Like Mexico, because of tribes and rural living there are huge varations in language, social and enconomic conditions, as noted by the International Herald Tribune about India.

When I workd with "at risk" youth, another employee was from India, he told me that in India he was a Medical Doctor and his education did not have resoprosity with U.S. Medical School, Boards, or Licensure. Mr. Thomas also informed me that in order to obtain higher education in India you had to be able to speak English. The International Herald Tribune's article on "Maoists who menace India" states that in the poorest states of India, according to the 2001 Census the literacy rate is only 47 percent and 54 percent, the Indian National Average in 65 percent. The U.S. Department of State on Travel reports that the quality of medical care in India varies considerably and in major populated areas it occasionally meets Western standards.

The greatest points of conflict in India's foreseeable future are political points, military points, and terror points of conflict. The political points of conflict are International news gathering and reporting processes, The Research and Analysis Wing, India's intelligence Agency's role in preventing attacks like in December 2001 on the Indian Parliament, Maoist becoming a political factor, and India's New Congress' multiparty coalitions, with political alliances that are state or caste based.

The military points are that India and Pakistan both have nuclear capability and neither has moved on their position about Kashmir, the declaration of Prime Minister Manmahan Singh that Naxalism was the "single biggest security challenge ever faced by our country," Islamic fundamentalism seen as a main security threat.

The terrorist points of conflict are Religious and Cultural Terrorism. U.S. Department of State on Travel specifically includes violence against Christians, called Anti-Christian violence, that occurs mostly in Orissa, Gujarat, Kerala, and Karnataka, India against Indian and American Missionaries and Social Workers. Conversion of Hindus is illegal in some states due to the violent clashed it causes. Cultural Terrorism fourteen terror attacks have occured in major cities

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