Is India overated?

[Ranjeet01]

18 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The west can afford such innovative ways of paying people to do nothing because their jobs have been replaced by robots and AI.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? 

 

 

A very restless population. These cyber coolies have been sold a dream and they realise that they have been lied to.

If you are poor and you have been screwed over then you don't any better. If you are poor, get an improved standard of living and then you get pushed back into poverty again , this means trouble. 

[MisterrSingh]

4 hours 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...

Very true. The Indian middle-to-upper classes have an over inflated opinion of themselves and their standing in society, which isn't surprising considering that's true in western countries, too. The problem as it manifests in India is the insidious propaganda peddled by the Indian state in its education system from a very young age: Mera Bharat Mahan, etc., when even the most apparently upwardly mobile and sophisticated Indian urban dwellers struggle to comprehend how thoroughly they've brainwashed by the state. Like certain Pakistanis they cannot tolerate any criticism of their homeland and its past. The Indians aren't above rewriting their own history in order paint a fantasy picture of their achievements, whilst undermining the minority cultures and faiths that make up India who they consider to be a thorn in their side, a prime example being Sikhs. We've buckled, if Punjab is any indication. It's a shame, because if the events of the 80's had been handled slightly differently by those who were at the vanguard of change, we could've had India on the ropes at minimum.

[Big_Tera]

On 15/01/2018 at 9:26 PM, Dsinghdp said:

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

You are fortunate to come from Amritsar.

Having visited dehli. I am glad I do not come from this sh1thole of a city. Yes makes me appreciate being from Punjab. 

 

[Big_Tera]

On 15/01/2018 at 11:03 PM, Ranjeet01 said:

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

The country is rotten from top to bottom.

I used to think India was more better then the uk. But the fact is there is hardly any open space. Each house is like a hotel. And they are all tightly built against one another. But I guess this is not the fault of the people. with the population so high. there is no room anywhere. People are living like sardines in a can. The entire infrastructer is crumbling. pollution congestion its a nightmare for everyone. No wonder many indians want to leavr and move to the west. 

Yet we Indians in the uk take for granted everything we have.

[InderjitS]

3 hours ago, Big_Tera said:

Having visited dehli. I am glad I do not come from this sh1thole of a city

What makes Delhi a s1thole of a city are the very people who choose to forget that their family members were butchered in '84, yet they side with the perpetrators and blame Sant Ji.