Why India has become a living tragedy of self-delusion??

[karan21]

Actually I get a feeling that BBC is promoting South Africa, Kenya as next economic stars.

Yea after they have known India can give nothing but delusions even vietnam, Africa and Malaysia etc have become much better investment destinations.

 

[Phoenix89]

On second thought, this (thread) is an excellent idea. I will post every freaking bad/sad news about india, every neighbor of ours seems to working an extra hour for that....

 

[karan21]

On second thought, this (thread) is an excellent idea. I will post every freaking bad/sad news about india, every neighbor of ours seems to working an extra hour for that....

Yep good way to collect a lot of thanks from the other side.

 

[Phoenix89]

Yep good way to collect a lot of thanks from the other side.

Ohh, i didn't thought it that way....A tip from veteran PDF'r....

 

[Wickerman]

I wouldnt say its delusion. If you go to Bihar to one of the poor people and tell him about India's rising GDP etc, he would say: "Eh, I dont have food today". So those people who face difficulties are not deluded.And they make up 60% of the country. So going by the majority I wouldnt say India is a deluded nation.

The minority that is successful, the new middle class, having seen a increase in incomes, having experienced success tend to be hopeful. Too hopeful for their own good. This can certainly be attributed to as delusion, but it is not. Even if it is, it is welcome. It helps people look forward to a bright future. And that is how a person's attitude should be. Too much of realism will kill your dream and dreams are necessities for achievements. However, every single Indian has seen poverty, knows what poverty is, knows what problems face India.

All of those statistics presented in the article is redundant, we've all seen it before.

That is why I believe that this superpower thing is crap. America became a superpower after like 200 years after its independence. After 200 years of being an almost homogeneous nation all following one religion for the most part. India not so. We have so many divisions. Just in the other thread here on PDF, we had Hindutvadis arguing with seculars like me. So how can India move ahead fast with these opposing forces pulling in different directions?

To eradicate all these shortcomings we need a 100% literacy first. Lets get those kids dropping out of school into school first and at the same time revise our curriculum. But even that can take a backseat as long as we achieve 100% literacy.

 

[karan21]

I wouldnt say its delusion. If you go to Bihar to one of the poor people and tell him about India's rising GDP etc, he would say: "Eh, I dont have food today". So those people who face difficulties are not deluded.And they make up 60% of the country. So going by the majority I wouldnt say India is a deluded nation.

The minority that is successful, the new middle class, having seen a increase in incomes, having experienced success tend to be hopeful. Too hopeful for their own good. This can certainly be attributed to as delusion, but it is not. Even if it is, it is welcome. It helps people look forward to a bright future. And that is how a person's attitude should be. Too much of realism will kill your dream and dreams are necessities for achievements. However, every single Indian has seen poverty, knows what poverty is, knows what problems face India.

All of those statistics presented in the article is redundant, we've all seen it before.

That is why I believe that this superpower thing is crap. America became a superpower after like 200 years after its independence. After 200 years of being an almost homogeneous nation all following one religion for the most part. India not so. We have so many divisions. Just in the other thread here on PDF, we had Hindutvadis arguing with seculars like me. So how can India move ahead fast with these opposing forces pulling in different directions?

To eradicate all these shortcomings we need a 100% literacy first. Lets get those kids dropping out of school into school first and at the same time revise our curriculum. But even that can take a backseat as long as we achieve 100% literacy.

What this article is doing is taking 3 worse cases and trying to prove that just because of those 2-3 cases India sucks and is delusional. Now any mature person whold know it doesn't happen that way. India is not delusional but is poor and it is undergoing a natural cycle of development. We move forward seeing improvement everyday.

 

[Audio]

Lol I deleted them, still this thread is going to be a supertrool thread.

I meant the reader comments on the article page.

 

[xyxmt]

Minority appeasement??

Really thats all you can some up with?
not the fact that Indian suddenly became disillusioned with super power complex, not realizing that 15 years ago India was in the same league as Bangladesh and nepal. US untill 20 years ago was a humble super power their arrogance started with the demise of Soviet Union yet Indian all of sudden start to put themselves in the same league as US and Germany. You should try to Read Indian's comments more and justify if that infact is a reality.

 

[illusion8]

Really thats all you can some up with?
not the fact that Indian suddenly became disillusioned with super power complex, not realizing that 15 years ago India was in the same league as Bangladesh and nepal. US untill 20 years ago was a humble super power their arrogance started with the demise of Soviet Union yet Indian all of sudden start to put themselves in the same league as US and Germany. You should try to Read Indian's comments more and justify if that infact is a reality.

I have left all that for you good souls to comment on - I commented on the first thing that caught my eye.

Minority appeasement is sick especially what the Congressi's do.

 

[xyxmt]

dreams help the helpless people to stay alive and keep going.

dreaming while barely walking can make you fall in a gutter too, specially in our part of the world where manhole covers are stolen to feed the hungry

 

[Abingdonboy]

Hey, if it were easy everyone would do it, right?? No one said India was perfect or there wasn't A LOT of issues to fix by the key thing is they are being fixed.

 

[harpoon]

Why is that except for Indians everybody else is interested in India's 'superpower' status...which we are not and never will be.

 

[shuttler]

Why is that except for Indians everybody else is interested in India's 'superpower' status...which we are not and never will be.

just type "superpower" "india" the search results will jam the net! - a sizeable no of the writers are indians

Here is an example, dated back to 2005, period before the burst of usa's asset bubble and financial crash:

India welcomed as new sort of superpower
By Anand Giridharadas
Published: Thursday, July 21, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/world/asia/20iht-india.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[Yogi]

yes, we have a lot of problems, there is no denying in that respect but we r trying to solve them that is also true...

Over coming the things mentioned in the article arn't that simple in an extemely diverse country like ours n despite of lathargic beauracracy we have in our so called democracy we r still improving n most importantly there has been a shift in peoples way of thinking nowadays everybody wants their kids to study even the sweeper that comes to house to collect garbage sends her children to school now that wasn't the case a few years back....

So some serious changes r ouccuring although they might seem a bit slow but nobody got the magic wand...

N as far as the SUPER POWER BS is considered its majorly the western media n many times the Indian media who come up with this crap
But the fact remains the same that majority of normal Indians aren't living in the La La land n infact i never meet an Indian in real life claiming to be a resident of a SUPER POWER so real Indian don't live in delusion as they r facing real life problems, infliation, limited resources to meet increasing demands on a daily basis...