{"id":5652,"date":"2009-02-26T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5652"},"modified":"2009-02-26T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:06:22","slug":"slumdog_thousan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/slumdog_thousan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Slumdog Thousandaire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Slumdog Millionaire does a great job of is implicitly portraying is the economic seachange in India over the past 20 years &#8211; a rising tide may not do it equally, but it does eventually lift all boats including Jamal Malik&#8217;s.  <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.tv\/video\/show\/696.html\">Reason.tv dug into this a bit more &#038;<\/a> came away with lessons about India&#8217;s economy and hopefully ours as well &#8211; <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>\n<SCRIPT src=\"http:\/\/reason.tv\/embed\/video.php?id=696\" type=text\/javascript><\/SCRIPT>\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p>&#8220;One IT company doesn&#8217;t just employ computer professionals,&#8221; says Dalmia. &#8220;It also needs landscaping services, cleaning services, and restaurants. There was this tremendous spillover effect that allowed people to lift themselves out of poverty.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>With politics &#038; conventional wisdom in the US tipping towards equating deregulation with financial ruin (contrary to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/130328.html\">the actual Bush legacy<\/a>) it&#8217;s nice to see the gains from liberalizing markets celebrated elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Slumdog Millionaire does a great job of is implicitly portraying is the economic seachange in India over the past 20 years &#8211; a rising tide may not do it equally, but it does eventually lift all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/slumdog_thousan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}