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wonder how the sales pitch to sell items like the LCA to Bangladesh will work out when Indian Navy itself has rejected the LCA as 'too heavy'.
You didn't exactly read the report, did you? He was talking about the Naval LCA Mk1 which is obviously 700 kg heavier than the land based version. Why would we ever offer a carrier capable aircraft to Bangladesh?
The Navy knew for a long time that LCA in it's present form cannot fulfill their requirement that's why they proposed a version powered by GE F414. That's how the Mk2 project came into existence.
We should be comparing India to China - as sizes and economies are similar. But does that comparison end positively? Most Indian posters here avoid this subject like the plague. It really does not matter much, the fortunes of countries wax and wane in time.
If I am not mistaken, this is the Bangladesh defense forum, where the forumers think that they're better than India in every possible way. And you yourself agree with the fact that your country was ahead in per capita income before being overtaken by us.
Having double the PPP per capita income of some country is irrelevant if that income only goes to the top 5% of the populace
Is there any proof for that 5% allegation? India's median income is still far higher than Bangladesh, poverty rates still lower.
"Something must have gone terribly wrong in the last six decades of Indian democracy, for our record in the social sector-be it healthcare, education or gender justice-is dismal; we are even worse than Bangladesh in living standards."
I obviously knew that you were going to quote these two frustrated leftist economists, (frustrated because they know that they're not going to return to prominence) but even according to the composite index they have developed- HDI, India is ahead of Bangladesh & ranked as medium human development. Bangladesh doesn't do better except being marginally better in healthcare. I think @Nilgiri has made several posts on this in this forum.
You do not have to bring in BD, an LDC country, for a comparison of accomplishment of India. It is too cheap when you did not talk only about the Indian development on its own merit.
In this case, it was a Bangladeshi member who started such comparisons so a comparison with your country is much relevant.
and not one uselessly armed to one's teeth for no reason other than your politicians' benefit
Well we have two nuclear armed expansionist regimes- a theocracy & communist nation as our neighbors, don't we? As a citizen of India I think the defense expenditure is quite low (1.8% of GDP) for the proposed modernization. And it is dwindling year by year.
Well talking about arming to the teeth, both Bangladesh & India spends some 6.3% of their annual expenditures for defense. If you still find our defense budget to be high, you can blame our higher tax to GDP ratio.
however the record of Bangladesh in healthcare, education or gender justice speak for themselves. If you count those as the yardstick of being a civilized economy
Well India has a higher HDI score and it is improving faster than Bangladesh. If you count that as a yardstick for a civilized economy.
And even in those healthcare indicators where you do marginally better, India is catching up fast and would overtake you probably before the end of this decade. And I don't think you are going to catch up with us in education either.
Can you say what important consumer goods you guys are producing? Check also how many million dollars worth of consumer goods you are importing from China?
Google it.
Are these countries boasting about Mars mission?
Do these countries earn more than $300 million an year by marketing space based services? Do they save billions by building & launching satellites for themselves? Do they save millions by depending on their own constellations for everything from TV transponders to crop output forecast & disaster management ?
If not, there is no point in your argument. Anyway if you didn't knew, the Indonesians are developing their first space launcher.