While media persons like Utpal Dutt, Raj Kapoor, K A Abbas have significant contribution to Indian movies and media, their left leaning ideology put too rosy a blinder on socialism as model for development. This wave of socialism inspired movies such as Shree 420, depicted the poor semi starved, semi clad slum dwellers (eating "Rukhi-Sukhi ) happily dancing and singing whereas the pot bellied rich man seems to be having dyspepsia. Concurrent with these movies was a political culture of desi socialism with its "License-Raj", controls and quotas on almost everything and the populist Indira Gandhi's Bank Nationalization and Garibi Hatao etc which while popular in short run did not truly increase jobs or create wealth, forced Indians to stultify in un /under employment, rural starvation, urban shortages until GREEN REVOLUTION and WHITE REVOLUTION came on the scene due to partly Indian private enterprise and western technology and not due the socialistic five year plan originated projects like Steel plants etc. Gujarati enterprise started Amul Dairy in Anand with aid from USA and New Zealand and ended the milk shortage and it was Norman Borlaug and Punjabi farmer that changed the food grain situation in India. Similar left wing policies have forced a generation of Malayalees to seek jobs outside their state or country leaving behind their families for years. When a famous ex-socialist like Narayana Murthy has to quote a French communist party leader as having said that " To distribute wealth you have to create it first", it goes without saying that Capitalism with all its ills is better than socialism. Without a mechanism to create, enjoy and hopefully share wealth a society trying to ameliorate the needs of the poor is sure to fail. It reminds me of an Kannada proverb which loosely translated means " If you embrace a ash smeared sadhu you will end with ash all over yourself". Metaphysically you may gain more than just the ash by doing so but economically not much.