Bragging is indicative of the need to paper/plaster over the deep humiliation and inferiority complex most Indians have - at being dead last in the world in a lot of measuring benchmarks.
Take the current topic for example. They are even behind Bangladesh in smartphone penetration. I posted the link above. By the way, that rate is half that of China. So much for Mahaan.
The day will come (soon I hope) when we exceed India in all relevant benchmarks. I do not see that as a problem. Of course relevancy means, we probably won't waste money on missiles, space exploration etc. when 50%~60% of folks go to bathroom in the open, gotta have the priorities straight.
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