Chris Macrae’s earlier posts here about India and Pakistan, and the need to help nations, rather than examine their borders, struck a chord this weekend with the terrorist attacks in New Delhi. To me, these illustrate how little progress we’ve made as a planet—and the New Delhi attacks were predicted by a numerologist two days after July 7.
   I am usually sceptical of people who claim to have made predictions after the fact, but there it is on Johnnie Moore’s blog comments: a numerologist, Romesh Narayan Chaudhary, stating New Delhi would be next. Might be a fluke; might not be.
   However, the point remains very clear: we should condemn these attacks just as loudly as the ones on New York and London (current news shows that they aren’t, although a lot of people have been affected, which illustrates a first-world bias). And it is up to the brands that use the subcontinent as a manufacturing or service base to help people there right now. The more we show that the world can unite to help our fellow beings, the more futile terrorism becomes. Right now, we are showing the same old divisions. In the western world, media are still communicating that India is “far away”—and we are divided by borders and distance when the reality (to wit, outsourcing) shows otherwise. posted by Jack Yan, 1:04 AM  permalink