Old whine

Do you know, CNBC’s Vivian Fernandes called to say after a heated television debate on Wednesday on the Planning Commission’s estimate that those urban Indians spending less than R32 per capita on a daily basis were poor, that you can buy two dosas in small hotels in his home town (5 km from the centre of Mangalore) for R8. Vivian was reacting to one of the TV panelists pooh-poohing the Planning Commission, saying that the bananas he buys in Jor Bagh (New Delhi) for his daughter cost R60 per dozen, so he can’t even eat two bananas per meal for fear Montek Singh Ahluwalia would say the sixth banana would take him above the poverty line!

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