Why do Indians care so much about growing faster when they are still only putting on 1/8 of China's increase in gross terms every year. They should focus on reducing poverty and inequality because catching up to China is unrealistic any time soon.
Modi is a good leader (for most of India) although I'm sure he will not live up to his full promises. Pakistan needs a Modi without the complicity in progroms and I'm sure it would be a major economy by 2050. But even with the post 9/11 chaos Pakistan is still ahead of India in many development...
Exactly.
Most of the modern South Asian states are so diverse that they need some sort of outward bound hatred to stay intact. Pakistan has religion, India looks like its just holding together on hatred of Pakistan and some pan-subcontinental culture that Bollywood is creating. Pakistan is no...
South Asians should jointly recognise the damage Britain did which was greater than Nazi Germany. I dont know why Pakistanis think its irrelevant to them because Pakistan was just carved out of British imperial territory. Britain's handling of independence should be blamed for the wars in...
China is 'winning' compared to India because it is the largest homogenous nation. China has almost always been the centrally planned Han state that it is (apart from the frontier provinces). South Asia, Middle East and Africa full of more artificial countries that are made from colonial...
At an average 7% growth rate for the next 35 years gives a doubling time of 10 years. Therefore by 2050 India will have a GDP of around $27 trillion, still far less than China ($45 trillion + at 5%) and probably the US ($36 trillion + at 2% growth) also even if it did grow at 7% for all those...
I dont think South Indians particularly but I think a lot of Pakistanis want to be seen not as 'Indian Asian' or 'basically Indians' as the stereotype goes. India has tried to delegitimise Pakistan's creation by saying they are just Indian Muslims who made their own country out of India whilst...
They are paid billions by the US in military supplies for their relations with Israel and turning a blind eye to its crimes. Israel and India have cooperated and planned attacks on Pakistani nuclear facilities and is India's closest partner in the Middle East. Even if you dont 'support'...
Well I dont see how Pakistan can officially support Kashmir and Palestine but not Nagorno-Karabakh. And Turkey has just made things worse by closing the border and denying the genocide. I'd say Armenia is very much the Caucasus Pakistan between its two hostile neighbors. The military relations...
Bangladesh probably will overtake Pakistan and India per capita because it is smaller and has less population growth. It probably can't by nominal GDP and definitely not by PPP.
Theres a difference between rape in backwards rural areas and recorded gangrapes in public and no-one doing anything about it. And then rapes by the military there and in Kashmir is a whole new level.
Rape is a problem everywhere but India is at some South Africa level.