New India
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You’re a journalist and you’ve been commissioned to write an article about ‘New India’ for a British newspaper.
India is experiencing spectacular changes. Its economy is growing by about 8% a year and it’s already the fourth biggest in the world. The earnings of its 311 billionaires jumped by 71% in 2006! At the same time 35% of people live on less than US$1 a day, and the gap between rich and poor is growing.
But the hype is everywhere and people are calling this new global power ‘New India’ – and your job is to get to grips with what it’s all about.
Read Dear journalist to find out more.
Before heading off to India, you need to organise a survey to find out how much your readers already know.
Open the New India survey. This lists three closed (yes / no) questions and three open (full sentence) questions. Use them to interview five people. You might like to also include some of your own questions in this survey. You will need the World map in question one.