I have often been disappointed with discussions here concerning India. Most topics and nations can be discussed here in a generally productive manner. Unfortunately it is clear that many of the posters who frequent the India threads here do so not of out any genuine interest in the status and ongoing development of India's armed forces, industry, or economy, but solely in order to mock India's (lack of) achievements, the gap between rhetoric and action. A kind of "bad faith" engagement is the rule, rather the exception, and that is regrettable.
That's completely true but it's grossly misleading to leave out the other side of the argument: Indians bring this on themselves through their rhetoric and conduct.
Real progress is being made, and in the long-term I do believe that India's achievements will be more than sufficient to disturb the established powers of this world (many of whom seem to be under the illusion, just as they were with China, that India will stay in its box forever), but surely this must be one of the ugliest races that has ever been run.
I've looked deeply into this issue for a while precisely because I want an answer to this question of India's supposed "potential." While we all have our biases, I've pressed myself to be objective about this. I can summarize my serious conclusions is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek meme format
Broke: Because India has a large population, it will automatically have a large economy.
Woke: There are several crucial structural factors that ensure India will consistently underperform - poor and irreformable governance, a caste system prohibiting full economic participation, a multiplicity of mutually unintelligible dialects and languages, strong regionalism and autonomy, lack of education and human development, democracy preventing long-term planning, pseudo-socialist laws preventing markets from functioning, perverse incentives throughout the economy, lack of government capacity to build infrastructure, etc.
Bespoke: There's no such thing as "India."
I guess the reason I am writing this, in light of how things have unfolded these past few pages, is because I do not wish to be associated with the kinds of posters who only wish to see India fail, and I regret if my recent posts have been interpreted in that vein.
Whatever your motives, your posts are usually thoughtful and in this context would be more useful than just passing scorn. As I said, I take the
possibility - as remote as it is - of a competent India seriously.
I would like to see a healthier atmosphere in discussions of Indian matters here, an atmosphere where questions and criticism are motivated by good-faith attempts at understanding, rather than by scorn and hostility, but I don't know if that is possible.
I haven't seen anything particularly toxic from any members here about India; on the contrary, the toxicity is almost always from Indian trolls. Even were that not the case, why do you think India merits any respect based on the conduct of its supporters here?
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