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 NEW DELHI (AP) - India must temper its triumphant mood and work harder to battle poverty, the country's prime minister said Wednesday, urging the nation not to become overconfident on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain.
Once a poverty-stricken afterthought for much of the world, India has been transformed by the past decade's economic boom into a burgeoning world power whose wealth can be seen everywhere: New cars cruise the streets, high-end apartment blocks are rising on the edges of cities, luxury shops fill the seemingly endless supply of new shopping malls.
But the inequality in this country of 1.1 billion people is as often as conspicuous as the consumption — Indian children are more likely to be malnourished than African ones and the country is home to about a third of the people in the world living on less than $1 a day.
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