Is India overated?

[singh598]

It's important to remember that India has only been autonomous and sovereign since 1947

India has two major problems

1. It's defense spending due to tensions and wars with Pakistan 

2. Government corruption 

[Preeet]

3 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

gorey like India because they can reliver the raj experience they reckon ... also their money goes further but even so they take the mick
 

 

 

 

omg, i feel so bad for the aunty..  some peoples hankar is too much.. Not to mention some of the people like to go to lalacha locals to convert in India.

[Big_Tera]

4 hours ago, simran345 said:

I’m not being picky, and being brown has nothing to do with it. Like I said I wouldn’t go back for the relatives but to visit as a tourist instead. Nothing wrong in that, nobody can force anybody to stay with anybody they don’t like or have been treated badly by. 

Indian relatives can be the worst. I do intend on going back to india as a tourist also. Which will be alot more fun then spending time with money greedy relatives. I have  mostly distant relations there also anyway on the nanake side. 

[Big_Tera]

18 hours ago, Ranjeet01 said:

I always feel that India is a place where being a sociopath is the norm.

It is a country which prides itself on it's cunning. 

The country is a dump because no one cares, there is no value of life and they can be very indifferent to a lot of the problems.

There is no rule of law because everyone seems to be trying to cut corners all the time. 

This is the reason why it takes a big shittar or danda to keep everyone in line. It is the only thing these people seem to respond to.

What i noticed is that many people lack decent morals. Its all about money and status. The poor are treated badly and abused. 

[Big_Tera]

22 hours ago, MrDoaba said:

Are you really basing your view on a whole subcontinent after visiting one sh!tty city?

You were in Delhi, why didn't you go? It's not far.

Dehli was so bad. It put me off the whole of india. It just seemed like one big garbage tip.Made me appreciate being born in the uk. 

Im sure Punjab is better though.

[Dsinghd]

Punjab is the best. The birthplace of Sikhism and where Sikhi grew up.

You are fortunate to come from Amritsar.

[jkvlondon]

17 minutes ago, Big_Tera said:

What i noticed is that many people lack decent morals. Its all about money and status. The poor are treated badly and abused. 

that's what you get when you have corrupt 'brahmins' who wouldn't know Akal Purakh from a barn door running the whole show , apparentely the whole system is for their benefit, the worker castes make things, do the dirty work in the fields and elswhere, the kings amass the territories and riches , the soldiers protect it and the brahmins preach but yet do not contribute, eat yet do not honour effort, amass riches yet do no toil, point out enemies yet do not defend . What is their value ? JACK

however if we are talking true brahmin according to Gurbani, then that would be a treasure indeed ...a person who heals the wounded hearts of the people , who motivate with divine inspiration , who sees Akaal Purakh in all , who is humble

The poor are basically slaves , and slaves have no status in the eyes of the owners of the country's wealth , that's why their deaths in 2017 over demonetisation farce didn't even register in the news media...and will not matter in the case of cancer , drugs, crime etc etc

[Ranjeet01]

1 hour ago, Big_Tera said:

What i noticed is that many people lack decent morals. Its all about money and status. The poor are treated badly and abused. 

The irony is that if the poor got richer, they will behave in the same way.

The country is rotten from top to bottom.

[proactive]

On 1/14/2018 at 6:20 PM, MisterrSingh said:

I wonder how much of the West's wilful misrepresentation of India - partly, I'm certain, as a misguided form of political correctness - has lead to naive Westerners making their way over there, only to realise the reality does not mesh with the Indian tourist board fantasies projected to people over here. Funnily enough, all pretences of India being a society that doesn't teeter on the edge of poverty and injustice is abandoned when reports of a gang rape or two make international headlines. That's when the finger wagging begins.

Apart from the PC there is also the fact that the west knows that Indians especially the ruling classes are very insecure and need endless amounts of flattery in order to get them to do the west's bidding. The west needs India to buy it's goods and services and to use India's cheap labour. In essence India is still a colony of the west as the west like the British rulers before 1947 use India as a supplier of raw materials (and labour) and then sell the value added goods and services to the Indian consumer.   India's population at the moment is it's biggest advantage as the west needs India's consumers for its goods and services, But wait a few decades or even less than that when the impact of AI and robotics replace million of jobs around the world. Western countries are already considering things like universal basic income.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/31/finland-universal-basic-income

The west can afford such innovative ways of paying people to do nothing because their jobs have been replaced by robots and AI. What will happen to countries like India? When the west does not need it's cheap labour. When the millions of cybercoolies manning it's call centres become unemployed as AI replaces their jobs? 

 

 

[GurjantGnostic]

4 minutes ago, proactive said:

Apart from the PC there is also the fact that the west knows that Indians especially the ruling classes are very insecure and need endless amounts of flattery in order to get them to do the west's bidding. The west needs India to buy it's goods and services and to use India's cheap labour. In essence India is still a colony of the west as the west like the British rulers before 1947 use India as a supplier of raw materials (and labour) and then sell the value added goods and services to the Indian consumer.   India's population at the moment is it's biggest advantage as the west needs India's consumers for its goods and services, But wait a few decades or even less than that when the impact of AI and robotics replace million of jobs around the world. Western countries are already considering things like universal basic income.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/31/finland-universal-basic-income

The west can afford such innovative ways of paying people to do nothing because their jobs have been replaced by robots and AI. What will happen to countries like India? When the west does not need it's cheap labour. When the millions of cybercoolies manning it's call centres become unemployed as AI replaces their jobs? 

 

 

If properly represented in government, I think there is room for sustainable, manpower driven, economies.  But it requires that people have access to land and are able to use it.  Population increasing as automation also increases is a scary concept though.