Two ancient nations and cultures going back over 2,000 years. Is it possible to compare them? Greece is known as the cradle of Western civilization. Ancient Greece is associated with so many legends — everyone from Pythagoras, Socrates, Aristotle, Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Hippocrates , etc. Greece is of course the land of the Olympics. How many people are there in all of Greece today? Roughly 10 million. Or, 11 million. Of course, they enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world. What does India have to boast of? Let's see. Population of 1.2 billion roughly. Oh, a 'booming' economy — one of the 'fastest' growing economies of the world. And yet, pathetic literacy rates overall. And poverty. Miserable. Degrading. India perhaps leads the world in childhood malnutrition and infant mortality. Being the leader in the IT services sector in the world has perhaps made some dent in this abject poverty. Perhaps the wealth created in the burgeoning ...
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