The impression I got, traveling to Gujarat, is a place where things change very quickly. This for me is the third trip to this state since 2009, so I got to see and compare the signs of the so-called progress, which often means major change, at least in the more outward. And like all things, the progress has many faces.
On days when I was in Ahmedabad for example, was being a big economic summit, now in its fifth edition. Desired by the Prime Minister of stato del Gujarat, Narendra Modi, esponente della destra del BJP, Vibrant Gujarat si proponeva di innescare un ulteriore e ancor più efficace processo di sviluppo, grazie alla partecipazione massiccia degli industriali indiani e stranieri negli investimenti in questo stato.
Tutti gli esponenti della aristocrazia industriale indiana presenti al summit, dai fratelli Ambani, a Ratan Tata e Kumar Mangalam Birla, si sono rivolti a Modi indicandolo come l'artefice del successo del Gujarat. Del resto la sua faccia ottimista, fotografata su manifesti giganteschi, spuntava davvero ovunque in qualunque angolo dello stato.
I quotidiani riportavano alcuni brani dei discourses of industrialists present: "The world looks at India looks at India and Gujarat," said Chanda Kochhar, president of ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank, and "You can not afford not to be here," added Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman of Mahindra, multi-billion dollar company that produces everything from SUV Scorpio whizzing through the streets of India, information technology, banking services.
96 countries attending the summit, all willing to invest billions in Gujarat. It appears that after the first day of meetings and negotiations have concluded business for 325 billion dollars (Rs 14,90,000 crore, does anyone know reckon?), While at the end of two days summit of the promises of investment amounted to '20 lakh crore '(again, if anyone can do in the day, for me there are too many zeros. However, one lakh is 100 thousand rupees 1 crore is 10 million rupees).
Meanwhile, I was shooting in the slums of Ahmedabad, where a woman in a day's work, could earn the beauty of 68 rupees (about one euro) for 1000 rolled bidi, cigarettes cheaper in India, or a of school girls cutting and sewing of Sewa could scrape together 50 rupees for the packaging of a skirt or shirt.
However Narendra Modi is in power since 2001 and many of the industrialists and financiers attending the summit as the next state that Indian Prime Minister. A re-elected prime minister of Gujarat state in this well supported, despite his alleged implication in the bloodshed of 2002 (with more than a thousand dead, mostly Muslims) which had, at first, to resign from the government. But perhaps the
Gujarati, always so real and active, prefer to focus on the future ...
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