It took the Soviet Union less than 50 years to become a superpower.
It really didn't get much choice in the matter... it was either develop or be destroyed by Germany or the west...
But 70+ years after independence India is a laggard, no hope in site.
Yeah, you make development sound like a single path and it totally is not.
India needs to find a way that suits its culture and beliefs and standards... it can't copy the west because there are not enough third world countries to rape and pillage left.
Besides following their path will just create another America and the world couldn't handle another country that consumes like the US does with a population of over 1 billion people... it will be bad enough if China heads in that direction...
What the world needs are rather more sensible people in power and in control and pushing culture away from consumerism and more towards self sufficiency and respect.
Society divideded along various faultlines. So it's not me, it's their own history that is stating that they are doomed.
Every society on the planet has divisions... male and female, skin colour, religion, ethnicity, sports teams, smoking and non smoking... people who care about others and those who barely care for themselves and care nothing for other people...
Irregardless of what they say, west needs Russia far more than Russia needs the West.
Absolutely true, but in the same sense the influenza virus needs humans too, so it doesn't kill all humans... just the elderly and the young because that strengthens the breed and ensures a healthy stock to live in.
They are investing billions of $$ in Russia and lining up outside Russian universities to hire our top computer programmers
They are investing to make money and nothing else... most investers have no idea what they are investing in... most managed funds have a portfolio in a range of areas and countries so any problems wont effect all the investments at once, but the purpose is not to support the country the things they are investing in... the purpose is to extract money out of it for you... the investor.
I don't know how many left. You said that Indian posters left because of racists like me. There are White members too who do not seem to be posting these days.
In any case all that these Indian posters do is copy & paste URLs. I suspect they have found some other platform for that.
I am a mod... I get told lots of things in confidence that obviously I can't talk about as these comments were private... several posters who no longer post commented on my lack of action against clearly racist members and their offensive posts.
There is no rule on this forum about racism, only about offending members and mods, but I like it like that.
Not because I like racism... and I mean real racism, not PC racism which is often justified criticism like of the US or Israel which is ignored by casting the person raising the points as being racist or anti semetic.
People are racist, they can't help it and often people are racist trying to appear to not be racist. A black family might be all smiles when their daughter brings home a white man, or an asian family might also be all smiles when their son brings home a white woman, but those families might not want mixed race new family members for all the same reasons white families might not welcome a black or asian or other new addition to their family.
That is racism of course, but are you going to ban them for being afraid or just ignorant? Would the black family prefer their daughter marries a black man who beats her up instead of a white man she can smack around... am I being racist for suggesting either alternatives?
Plenty of white men hit their white wives and a few white women hit their white men, but women are too afraid to admit it most of the time as are men too ashamed too. Anger problems are not limited to men... and cross all ethnicities and colours.
Unfortunately India has not yet fully got rid of their caste system.
So? Are you saying everyone in the west is equal? Instead of caste how about race or ethnicity....
In addition many jobs that in western europe would be done by intelligent people, even if not college educated, in India are normally relegated to people with less than average capabilities.
Over time things change... these days in the west a college education means squat... everyone has one so they become meaningless for a job interview...
My lecturer told me the degree I was working on would not get me a job, it should get me to a short list and probably an interview but it was down to me to get the job... and he was right. Half the time what you learn at uni is not what is used in the real world, but they take the fact that you passed to mean you have the capacity to learn and develop and grow so they will take you on and show you what they do.
There was two computer programmes at university when I went there... information science and computer science and the difference was made clear in the last year. Both required a computer system be developed to the system proposal stage with working prototype screens and working example system. The main difference was that in the CS department you got a page list of requirements and could do it in any programming language you liked. In info sci we had to go out in to the community and find a business and create a system proposal for them.
One you sat alone and worked it all out yourself and the other you had to find a customer and evaluate their current systems and situation and determine if a computer system is needed and then develop it using their forms and data etc etc.
Basically the computer science programme creates excellent coders and hardware specialists, while info sci creates people who manage them and get them work or communicate with customers to get specs and requirements for them to build systems.
Unfortunately in modern India there is still the mentality that if you are a smart person you don't work with your hands, and so it is difficult to find capable people in roles like high specialised mechanic or Aircraft Maintenance Technician.
Shortages create demand...
It is not because in India there are not enough smart people, it is because blue collar jobs, even those normally requiring long apprenticeships, are usually despised by people with normal or better than average intelligence...
Lots of people have jobs they don't like...
India is roughly 1/6 the size of Russia but has a population that is 6x that of Russia's. To make matters even worse its per capita income is 1/10 of Russia's. Unlike China that is predominantly Hun, hindus have thousands of communities who are constantly fighting amongst each other.
China, Russia, India... all three countries have stereotypes and all three are changing and developing...
It's therefore natural they do not make much progress.
You mean like Europe during the Dark Ages when all progress was stifled by religion and petty squabbling amongst themselves?
Asian countries like China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore etc that were much backward than India about 60-70 years ago are now 60-70 years ahead of India on almost all social, economic parameters.
Which just proves change is normal and inevitable...
India should be divided into 15-16 smaller countries of around 70-80 million people. That's the only way they will make progress. Even if India grows at 8%-9% per annum it will take that country 75-80 years to become a middle income country. That's how terrible ground realities are.
Didn't you say they were already divided into thousands of separate groups by their religions?
And how many pieces should Russia be divided in to to make it better and more efficient?
Funny how Europeans claim the EU makes them strong but think everyone else needs to be broken up into smaller pieces...
Perhaps a better solution is to ban all religion and rejoin Pakistan and Bangledesh to India?
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... they are risking the lives of their astronauts using cheap obviously inferior Russian electronics and rockets just to save a few bucks and they are enormously wealthy... what a bunch of ass holes... they should man up and spend proper money on their own super technology and forget the Russians and keep their people much safer with superior euro technology...