A New World Order

[FairAndUnbiased]

Unfortunately, the liabilities will remain for years to come - misgovernance and social inequality. Do we have any statesmen of caliber? We will probably never have a Chanakya to turn things around and there lies the rub. The present lot of politicians have made politics into a family business with no concern for the country. We are saddled with parliamentarians who are not law makers but law breakers.

As of May 2011, approximately 30 percent parliamentarians have serious criminal cases pending against them !! And these include extortion, murder, attempt to murder, rape, corruption, cheating, land grabbing, illegal hawala transactions, money laundering, massive tax evasion, graft running into thousands of crores, and numerous scams!

And we hope for 'Good Governance'? Forget it. Our netas don't have the bl00dy time for our benighted country.

The mantra of our netas is: "Make hay while the sun shines"!

We must understand that bad governance is all relative.

India is doing as well as it can given the economic reality. Same for China.

Do we remember 1900's-1970's US? Back then, corruption was the norm. The US army was frequently called in to suppress riots, strikes, protests, etc. Looking back, the US was very ruthless with its dissidents when it was industrializing and even after it industrialized. And from the outside looking back, the US army and pol ice were just protecting the rich oligarchs.

The modern US (with "human rights" and all) only came into being in the late 1980's. Before the 80's, the US was a very different place, filled with racism, pollution, corruption, violence, unemployment and crisis. After the collapse of the USSR, the US got full license to exploit the rest of the world's resources, and could "afford" clean government.

 

[Punjabbi Munda]

In short, India wants to be the new Britain. I guess it's typical for the slave to want to be the master - but what India wants may not be what they get.

Sad...Even at current growth rate India is set to overtake UK in coming few years(GDP).

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

We have huge problems on our hand.
The recent FDI is an example of policy paralysis in central govt.

Its best said "Indian economy grows inspite of goverment no due to government."

 

[HongWu]

WOW
we used to be the largest economy before 1700!!!
damn those brits

Yes, Islamic India was a great empire. They built the Taj Mahal.

One day Pakistan will reclaim the glory of Mughals.

 

[Arian]

I smell the thread is turning into a dick-measuring contest.

 

[gpit]

"In the emerging world order, the India-US partnership will be as pivotal as the Anglo-US axis was for most of the 20th century."

No wonder so many people talking about Indian "inferiority complex".

It seems true.

I admire powerful British education/brainwash of elite Indians.