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> India lacks both cheap "skilled" labour and mineral resources. They do have low and unskilled labour in high numbers though Skills do not develop in a vacuum

> India lacks both cheap "skilled" labour and mineral resources. They do have low and unskilled labour in high numbers though Skills do not develop in a vacuum. You need to have requirements for a particular skill before you can spend resources to train workers in those skills. And the lack of large resources is also not that big of a problem. Unlike some countries, India tends to start and maintain friendly relations with countries that have mineral wealth like Australia, etc. And the Indian navy has enough heft to open and secure those supply lines in case someone decides to start a war. > Also India is just about as democratic as Putins Russia. Um, no. India has democratic elections whose results are accepted by all the political parties involved. No political party has mounted an actual challenge against any result or vote count or claimed large scale election rigging. You might not like Modi. That's acceptable. But to go around claiming that democracy does not exist because your favorite lost the elections is frankly disingenuous.

pankajdoharey 6y ago
>Skills do not develop in a vacuum. You need to have requirements for a particular skill before you can spend resources to train workers in those skills. Yes for that you need Education, Indias effort at education are abysmal at best, much of the unskilled labour is either not educated or educated in humanities. > You might not like Modi. That's acceptable. But to go around claiming that democracy does not exist because your favorite lost the elections is frankly disingenuous. I was never referring to elections, Democracy is more than elections. It is about public participation, India is run very much like a authoritarian regime with highly corrupt officials.
harichinnan 6y ago
Parliamentary republic with brute majority would feel like a dictatorship. There's no real seperation of legislative and executive branches. Judiciary largely plays to win post retirement careers. But that usually gets fixed after an election or two. Democracies are often compared to China or Singapore on how they are inefficient in addressing long term issues. A parliamentary republic is a fair compromise between an autocracy and a gridlocked presidential republic like in US. If a brute majority mandate is used well, a party can bring along revolutionary changes in short notice.
- pankajdoharey 6y ago
  I agree, but if the brute majority is not used well or if it is used to further individuals motives than the collective then they are not good.To practice Democracy, is the ability to question the usage of funds. Also dilution of institutions is quite worrisome even the supreme court judges have said this.

pankajdoharey 6y ago

>Skills do not develop in a vacuum. You need to have requirements for a particular skill before you can spend resources to train workers in those skills. Yes for that you need Education, Indias effort at education are abysmal at best, much of the unskilled labour is either not educated or educated in humanities. > You might not like Modi. That's acceptable. But to go around claiming that democracy does not exist because your favorite lost the elections is frankly disingenuous. I was never referring to elections, Democracy is more than elections. It is about public participation, India is run very much like a authoritarian regime with highly corrupt officials.

harichinnan 6y ago

Parliamentary republic with brute majority would feel like a dictatorship. There's no real seperation of legislative and executive branches. Judiciary largely plays to win post retirement careers. But that usually gets fixed after an election or two. Democracies are often compared to China or Singapore on how they are inefficient in addressing long term issues. A parliamentary republic is a fair compromise between an autocracy and a gridlocked presidential republic like in US. If a brute majority mandate is used well, a party can bring along revolutionary changes in short notice.

pankajdoharey 6y ago
I agree, but if the brute majority is not used well or if it is used to further individuals motives than the collective then they are not good.To practice Democracy, is the ability to question the usage of funds. Also dilution of institutions is quite worrisome even the supreme court judges have said this.