In India, the image that prevailed hitherto largely was that of an emaciated body, legs bent at the knees protruding from a face bone surrounding a bilateral exophthalmos and hollow cheeks starvation. This figure was popularized by the very present, a bit moralistic, accusing a prolonged colonization had depleted the colonized more than it had fattened. This figure had been popularized by that of Gandhi, a proponent of peaceful protest against the excesses and outrages of the colonizer. It is not certain that this picture always coincide with reality. You might as well reverse and draw a negative image…

It would then inflate cheeks, bellies are soft, the folds of the thinness become convex instead of taking refuge in the concave of cachexia. The reality tends to reverse the proposals. Children are not all these deformed bodies representing formerly cachexia due to extreme poverty and hunger. If this situation is perpetuated in certain regions, it has ceased to be seen as representing a country in full development, reaching levels of excellence comparable or sometimes higher than in the West. It also welcomes them warmly in its universities and schools because of family network that it built, but also the exceptional intellectual quality of some of its young citizens.


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