India is a Global Country
In the early 1990s the Indian government made a number of sweeping changes to the laws concerning the relationship between corporations and the state, most notably, that foreign corporations could more easily enter India without as much regulation from the Indian government. For this and other reasons, the Indian economy has grown at its fastest rate since then.
India is still a third-world country, meaning most of its citizens are employed through agriculture. There are lots of statistics available relating to the 2001 census, and they all say something like 60% of the population works in farming, 10% work in industry, and 30% work in services. However, the GDP of India at that time was composed 20% from farming, 20% from industry, and 60% from services. The most socially influential part of the "service" industry is currently foreign office and research work being outsourced to India, and economic growth rates approaching 10% a year have been the trend and will likely continue to be until at least 2010. The complaints about globalization in the service sector are relatively few, compared to what goes on in the industrial sector.
A lot of foreign corporations come to India wanting to manufacture things in a factory setting. They do this ostensibly for the inexpensive labor, but in practice, they also come with knowledge that they are flouting safety laws in an atmosphere of corrupt and naive regulators. The big example was the Union Carbide / Dow Chemical isocyanate spill in 1984 that killed thousands in Bhopal, but there are lots of smaller problems which are wrecking lives everywhere. In Varanasi, the base town of Sanjeevani Booti, there are problems in a district called Mehdiganj with the American soda company Coca-Cola polluting fields, abusing workers, and taking so much water that the wells have dried.
Industrialization relates to Sanjeevani Booti's mission because factories bring dense population to areas which were previously rural. They also bring money to people who likely have never had steady income before. When people are crowded, sressed, and have extra income, sex practices and attitudes about drug use change. The urbanizing fringe of rural society especially needs education about disease transmission. HIV, Hepatitis C, and many other infections will surely grow in prevalence exponentially as India experiences its economic growth.
