Nope you dont have more clout or equal clout like Japan and Germany bro. As i said earlier, India is still farrrrrrrrr behind these 2 countries in ALL FIELDS. So how can you have more clout than them? Just because Germany and Japan lost the war, reason they are more reserved/passive/non interventionists, that doesnt means you should think India is anywhere near/close to them in anything. These two countries each exports in a year more than what India can manage in 5-10 years or more, their world trade is immense, their technology in another league which India's target is to achieve it in decades from now, etc etc. The only disadvantage they have is that they lost the war, hence their low profile in most world affairs. India isnt anywhere close to them in clout or whatever. Since if Japan or Germany was to go into a major crisis or their world trade was to affected, then it will have a tremendous effect on the world/countless countries, but same cant be said about India to be honest.
India does have potential though, if it gets its act together, and follow or learn from its East Asian peers development model/experience. But that again remains to be seen if India can indeed achieve this, since we never know what the future holds, afterall most/all our analysts/economists where predicting back then that India GDP will cross the 2 trillion mark by 2011, but its just this year it did cross the $2 trillion mark(even so after a rebasing of the economy). So many things can go wrong, just like they can go right. So better we talk about the present which is known, than the future which isnt.
And no, without us i still reiterate tthat there will be NO INDIA as we know it today. By the time we came, India was a country only on paper(if at all), made of independent Kingdoms. How on earth do you think you would have crushed these kingdoms and made them part of INDIA ? We did it for you, and we even went further than that, we collected more lands which NEVER belonged to India and incorporated it into our Indian empire. Your northeastern states were never part of India to be honest, we were the ones who captured it from your eastern neighbours like Myanmar,China, etc. So before you say only the nagatives we did, you should also be bold enough to mentioned the many positives we did for your country. though i know its hard to do that when you are a ultra nationalists and kind of embarassed you were once under another foreign power. But i dont think that should be the case.
oo yaar Srilanka, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh har eek nay L pe rakha huwa hey aur chalay hain world power bananay pehlay regional power tu ban jaoo 
