A while ago a friend of mine mentioned something about me being over here in India away from the greed and materialism of the western world. That made me chuckle and as a said then materialistic greed is certainly no less prevalent over here. If there was any doubt in my mind as to the truth of that statement a recent news article in Economic Times made a little more blatant. The last paragraph from that article is below.
“Thus, the 7,000-odd knitwear and ancillary units of the town [a small town in southern India] employing some 600,000 people are chanting Om Obama after Om Labhum, said a local wag. As Labhum is the local word for profit and Om is a Hindu word for veneration, most units in Tirupur have Om Labhum written on their sign boards.”
In other words they are not only chanting “Praise be to Obama,” but have “Praise be to Profits” written on their shirts and sign boards. The rest of the article can be found here.