Developed country sir, look at how the jhaals and jhopar patees are. See how Dalits live. Sir if you would not have listened to Britain and annexed Kashmir both countries would have been really developed countries. But your complex of being ruled for centuries had to come out. Unfortunately Pakistan has more corrupt Politicians otherwise you would be not trying to bask in the glory of space programmes at the cost of peoples and familes living their lives on pavements in Mumbai. You know that thousands of families in India live on foot paths?
Sir, I live in India, i know how my country is doing, i do agree last 10 yrs has not been very good due to a coalition government, but you might want to recheck after '15. A huge startup segment has woken up, this jan 21-23 we are even having a google organised govt funded startup campaign. I have seen families moving from bikes to cars. In my this many yrs of life, let me tell you, no matter how much you try to be little India, a huge growth for india have taken place. It might not be very fast to visibly see, but if you see the graph rendition of our country, you will realize slowly where we are heading.
P.S dalits are only limited to UP and Bihar. You hear about them, just like muslim communities, because they are used as vote bank just like blacks in states.
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In 2000, there was just a single metro transit system in India. In 15 years, we now have 7 metro systems in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Jaipur and Gurgaon and another 7 more to open within 2 years. There were 0 expressways. Now, there are 23 and 22 more to come in the next couple of years. Less than 3 people out of every 100 had a phone and those three were likely urban rich. Now, almost every family has phones.
Not just the technology. 4 more years have been added to an Indian's life with growing life expectancy, while the fertility ratio (# of children per woman) has fallen to a healthy 2.3 from over 3. Only about 40% of females over 15 were literate back in 2000 (
Country Profiles). Now, it is over 60%. Enrollment in pre-primary education has more than doubled. There is a massive drop especially in young female illiteracy.
All in a little more than a decade. When someone says India is not developing, they have their eyes tightly shut. We have a long way to go, but we are on track.
Why don't Indian poor people start a revolution?
As of 2015, India along with Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia, Turkey, South Africa and China has already graduated to the next stage from a developing country. It is no longer considered developing by the IMF, but a
Newly industrialized country - just one below the developed. This is a big step since 1947. It is also a part of
G-20 major economies - influential economies in the world and becoming a key base for many for world's leading corporations. Even in the 1970s, India found itself ranked only with economic basketcases.
There is not just the economic growth. In military, Indian firepower has already jumped to the 4th place (
Global Firepower Military Powers Ranked for 2015) and that means India no longer is pushed around like it was in your grandpa's time. It has been decades since India fought a full war and that is because we have enough firepower to defend against aggression.
In space, we have already become among a major power coming to ranks with the developed world. In computing, nuclear energy and other areas of high technology, it is closing the ranks with the developed world.
A lot of these developments happened in just 20 years. In my own short lifetime, I have seen India grow from a nuclear pariah to a defacto nuclear power. From an ignored economy to a major economic power. From a nation playing with crude technology to a nation on the cutting edge of a number of sectors. From a nation sending amateur rockets to finding water on moon & sending objects to Mars. I have seen cities grow from rubbish to ones with skyscrapers, metro railsystems and freeways.
Different View of India: Pictures of Indian cities you don't see in overseas media.
If I extrapolate the changes I have observed in the last 20 years, I'm fairly confident that I will see a developed India before I die.
source: quora.
