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> the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole There is lot of misguided guilt-tripping that goes on in India. Misguided
by hos234 7y ago
> the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole
There is lot of misguided guilt-tripping that goes on in India. Misguided because it doesn't produce any outcomes.
I feel India is massive and most people including Indians don't realize how massive.
I worked on project a few years back, which required traveling around/studying just one district. That district alone had a population larger than Norway. And India has 700+ districts. Just think about that for a moment.
We might as well be talking about 700 countries when we talk about India. There are many districts doing really well and healthy and many on the other end of the spectrum. Whenever people talk about "India" as a whole they don't know what they are talking about. Get them to be specific about a district and the conversation gets much more productive.
- sifar 7y agoYes India is a very diverse country and that is why policies which treat it as a single homogeneous entity won't work. They might work in tiny countries with similar populace but not when you scale it up to something like India. People fail to realize this.
- addicted 7y agoThis is true. But when discussing the economy, the Indian economy is extremely interconnected. Arguably, the Indian economy is far more integrated and 1 corner of the country is far more affected by impacts from another corner than in Norway, because the lower population numbers mean that people in Norway simply don’t rely on other Norwegians as much as they do on foreigners, which is far less true of India.