> a sizeable English-speaking population, and the world’s largest democracy. Only the latter turned out to be a bug, not a feature.
Actually both of them are bugs. No country has done well by relying on brain-drain and mass labour export for its forex earnings (India's balance of trade is negative; education is restricted to English speakers). Democracies too typically work well once the pains of industrialization are worked out.
These issues should be treasure troves for radical new research, but "Indian" researchers, are often more interested in pleasing their American peers than in solving problems in India (which ironically is itself the result of the first bug). Inevitably this results in BS 'social-justice' narratives, which are in vogue in the land of the free.
Tragedy is that India is the prototypical example of how to ruin a grand civilization. Little wonder too. The Chinese speak of hundred year of humiliation; but Indians celebrate all the rapists and looters who ruined the nation over the past millennia. I imagine, it'll take a repeat of Europe (another 2 millennia of darkness), before they wake up.
Actually both of them are bugs. No country has done well by relying on brain-drain and mass labour export for its forex earnings (India's balance of trade is negative; education is restricted to English speakers). Democracies too typically work well once the pains of industrialization are worked out.
These issues should be treasure troves for radical new research, but "Indian" researchers, are often more interested in pleasing their American peers than in solving problems in India (which ironically is itself the result of the first bug). Inevitably this results in BS 'social-justice' narratives, which are in vogue in the land of the free.
Tragedy is that India is the prototypical example of how to ruin a grand civilization. Little wonder too. The Chinese speak of hundred year of humiliation; but Indians celebrate all the rapists and looters who ruined the nation over the past millennia. I imagine, it'll take a repeat of Europe (another 2 millennia of darkness), before they wake up.