What about AIMMS and Indian doctors ? Healthcare is already subsidized here for the poor.
What about actually existing cases like this Ketto appeal :
Should this boy be allowed to die just because he is poor ? Why is Ketto doing the job that the government should be doing ?
How has collective farming worked out for the DPRK ?
DPRK has less arable land. It is doing what it can.
What about the Holodmor in the Ukraine, you know what caused it ?
No, I don't know much about it apart from seeing some pics.
You and your ridiculous commie ideas, srsly man
Even in the five Anglo countries, in 2011 there was the Occupy movement that called for radical change in those countries' capitalist structure ( the 99 percent people against the 1 percent rich ones ).
Even in the Nordic countries the government has some socialistic implementation.
Even in Pakistan Imran Khan spoke of implementing a Madinah-style welfare state.
It is only in India that commie ideas find hate. I will ask you to not listen to right-wing pseudo-intellectuals like Subramanian Swamy, Ashoke Pandit ( with his diatribes against the "Urban Naxals" ), "Sadhguru" Jaggi Vasudev etc.
We've made great strides in ISRO since it's inception. India obviously lack both the wealth and the scientific know how
Let me explain a bit of how I understand this in simple terms.
Firstly, ISRO has focused all the time on satellites when it should have focused on human spaceflight from the very start. Even so, in the past whenever ISRO had to launch a satellite that weighed more than four tons it contracted the launch to the French private company Arianespace for launch on its Ariane 5 launcher rocket. Arianespace was established in 1980, about two decades after the huge, government operated ISRO.
OK, that was in the past.
Currently ISRO's most capable launch rocket, the GSLV Mark III, can carry 10 tons to Low Earth Orbit which is where the International Space Station is orbiting ( at 400 kms altitude ). The GSLV Mark III was the system used for the Chandrayaan 2 mission. This launcher can carry significantly less capacity payload than the recent SpaceX Falcon 9 FT - which is 22.8 tons. And the FT is a reusable launcher compared to GSLV Mark III which means that the FT costs 50 million dollars per launch compared to GSLV Mark III's 51 million dollars. The GSLV being not reusable ( in technical terms, expendable ) means that the launcher is destroyed on every launch whereas the Falcon 9 FT can be reused a few times more. Had ISRO designed the Falcon 9 FT the per-launch cost would have been even less than SpaceX's 50 million which is because of higher human and material cost in USA. Also, the engine design of GSLV Mark III is more complex than the Falcon 9 FT - a three-stage solid-liquid mixed design with multiple liquid types of the former compared to the two-stage liquid design of the latter, though the former is supposed to have an upgrade to a total liquid design - the same LOX / RP1 engines that the SpaceX Falcon 9 FT has currently.
The GSLV Mark III is the launcher that is supposed to carry the first Indian space travelers in 2022. I doubt this date will be met.
What ISRO should have done is tie up with the Dutch-origin international project Mars One whose intention was to allow a few people ( common civilians ) to begin a staged one-way trip to Mars by the mid 2030s. That project is sadly now closed. Some say it was a scam but you should listen to
these interviews of the shortlisted people. There is a very nice interview at the top of the page of a supposedly respectable professor. The three speakers talk about how to practically take care of the many issues of living on Mars.
Then there is the American private company Bigelow Aerospace started by a real estate rich man. This company makes inflatable space habitats. I believe some of the models have already been tested in space.
I don't understand when private Indian very rich companies have been making engines and other components for ISRO what stops them from making complete space systems. For example, Godrej & Boyce makes the Vikas engine for ISRO's GSLV Mark III.
What has happened to the much announced Ambani Aerospace ?
If all it took was money and dozens of PhDs and hundreds of engineers to achieve human space flight by a country, India has lots of it, privately and with the government. So what is lacking ? In simple words it is lack of ambition and intellectual investment.
you can't seriously compare India to the Achievements of the Americans.
I am talking about a private American company with limited financial resources, not the government organization NASA.
Yes, SpaceX did have the help of some former NASA scientists but what stopped ISROs scientists and engineers to not learn from decades of rocket-sending experience of ISRO ?
The Chinese have a lot more money in their coffers too.
The Chinese have ambition too. When the Americans blocked their entry to the International Space Station they planned their own space station and towards this goal some years ago they had sent up a space laboratory module which saw a few human visits too.
capitalism, despite the problems > socialism
not worth going into this old debate.
India is the world's most extreme capitalist system with lip service paid to socialistic measures ( like the subsidized PDS system ). Tell me how is India's capitalist system greater than a truly socialist system.
No, but you can get into good institutes, not talking about lovely professional etc here, on merit, by excelling in school and by way of scholarships.
There are 200,000+ computer science graduates flooding out of India's many many "good" and otherwise computer courses
every year yet there is not a single Indian-designed operating system and microprocessor. Why ? If a civil engineering architect is expected to be able to design a house or office space or a public space why can't a computer science graduate be expected to design those two things ?
Congress were promising to reduce troop numbers and allow the separatists to have a free run/reign in Kashmir. Who were they trying to appease with that BS ? Raul baba, meanwhile kept on making anti India statements that were deemed good enough by the DG ISPR to retweet and use against us ! dushmano ko protsahan mila pappu ki bakwaas se, hadd hoti hai yaar !
Tell me, why should India be in a fight with Pakistan and China ? In the forum's magazine section please read my solution for peace with Pakistan over the Kashmir issue and generally.
and it's wrong to say the middle class voted just based on this so called hatred of muslims, not true. Economic policy pe vote dia tha
How many of the IT / ITES middle-class types who voted for Modi ever think of the 300,000+ farmers who committed suicide in India just between 1995 and 2015 ? So many more before that and after that.
This is a tough neighbourhood, as Trump would say.
Get friendly with Pakistan and China. Oppose the imperialism of NATO.
Making everyone equally miserable by tyrannical methods of wealth redistribution is no solution to our woes.
Were Libyans miserable ?
