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Surjit Bhalla calls a bluff. Globalisation is more frightening for the middle class in the first world who have seen their incomes plateau.

He takes a look at growth rates of per capita income both pre and post globalisation and makes a simple hypothesis pitting the first world’s Mary with a third world Sita.

The leaders and operators of the anti-globalisation movement are the formerly colonising rich whites, who, as per their heritage, need non-white intellectuals as their disciples and followers. If the intellectuals were to argue for Mary’s relative enrichment, they would be honest and would be constructive towards finding a better future for all, rich and poor. But such sentiments do not befit a ‘Left-intellectual’.