Kinda interesting to see this sort of "the grass is greener" type thinking. Strong institutions are a big juicy target for a broad spectrum of people and group

Kinda interesting to see this sort of "the grass is greener" type thinking. Strong institutions are a big juicy target for a broad spectrum of people and groups with self interest who will try to further those interests at the expense of everybody else. Given too long without serious negative consequences or given too long with blind buy-in from the population institutions often go down absurd paths that are not in the medium or long term best interests of just about anybody. There's very much a balance to be struck. I personally think that by being very tepid about building strong institutions India is going to avoid a lot of expensive blunders because the lack of buy in curtails the ability of the institutions it does have to do dumb things or at least to do them thoroughly in the same way that a (smart) king who's kingdom is facing external threats doesn't usually kneecap the home front with bad policy.