If you think trillions of dollars of aid are not the reason for your "economic growth" you are naive or at least very ungrateful.
Don't come on this site lambasting America, Americans, American food, and American tourists.
You owe us more repect than that.
DainBramage......U seem to confuse friendly bantering with "lambasting America, Americans, American food, and American tourists". I crack this kind of jokes with my other American buddies and they enjoy it. In fact these jokes arn't mine its their's. It requires wit to answer humour with humour. I see u have none, hence I can understand u answering back with racist slurs like the "red dot" ...Haji...and so on. Cracking a few jokes isnt disrespecting, try to get the difference. Well if u cant take a few jokes or ur unable to answer the jokes in the same vein probably U should not be comming here.
As far as aid is concerned we are grateful to any and everybody who have helped us in the past. That includes not just America but also a lot of other countries like Japan, Russia and Europe. To attribute a country's (as large as India) economic growth to only one single country "America" is too much of a statement to make. Get some knowledge of economics. Aid helps u survive for the day, it is never the reason for a country's economic growth. This is not to say that we are ungrateful to American aid, (come to India and see for urself how warmly the American are treated here) but then America has poured more aid into Africa and elsewhere why arnt they having an economic growth as yet?
I knew that report was of 1992 and India has changed quit a lot since then. Its been quit some time since we have kicked our begging bowls. Anything wrong with that?
Oh and I have not even touched upon the hardships we had to face as a result of sanctions imposed upon India by America and ofcourse the huge amount of millitary aid given to our neighbour Pakistan which ultimately was put to use against India......but still we are grateful to whatever help America provided us.