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India, a country where today 18 million people live in slavery – which is the highest number of slaves in the world – will probably not handle COVID-19 well.

As someone who has been in India for some time, everything else than a catastrophe would astonish me.

Source: https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/06/02/india-has-the...

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This is a definite troll post but lets analyze. You posted a single source for a pretty non-sensical comment. The link posts to a study by the Walk Free foundation - a foundation owned by an Australian billionaire who made his fortune in mining and who once ran a 38M AUD campaign to subvert a government imposed tax. Ironically this foundation publishes a Global Slavery Index. Thank you for the free education.

Slavery is a huge problem in India. Who did burn the bricks of your house → there is a high chance in India that they where fabricated by slaves. If you are an Indian you know that. You also know that those numbers are always estimates, but they are not totally off.

I know Indians are proud, very proud, but seen from an outside view the Indian society has a lot of problems. You can deny it, but you can't hide it, there is just too much wrong.

India has a lot of beautiful things to offer. I just hope that not too many people will suffer there.

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