I think India will succeed in its space ambitions. I hope this one makes it! But aviation in general, not as much. China doesn’t have the ability to make engine

I think India will succeed in its space ambitions. I hope this one makes it! But aviation in general, not as much. China doesn’t have the ability to make engines for its own commercial airliners yet. India doesn’t have the industrial capacity to build the airliners themselves right now. HAL can build a few but India still depends on Russian jets. Air India going private isn’t a sign of success in the industry. The government ran in into the ground, it got purchased without much of that debt, and the Tatas have limits to how quickly they can remove the tenured “government job” bureaucrats from the system. The government is still doing air India major favors by heavily restricting access to Indian passengers by foreign airlines (just this year they denied emirates an upgrade from 50000/seats a week, and denied a United/emirates codeshare agreement). This ends up hurting them too since they are limited to 50000/seats a week. One place I will give Indian aviation major credit is the air traffic upgrades they’ve done over the past 20 years. They are almost as safe as American airspace with some of the busiest airports in the world. I think India has a lot of potential though, especially in medical fields, I mean 2/3 of the world already has Indian vaccines don’t they?