I'm from India. I know the truth of what's happening here by virtue of the fact that I live here. And the truth is, my country will never become a developed nation. The population has gone to a point where even if you try to curb it, it'll have a steady growth. It's standing at 1.2billion now and even a sharp decrease in the birth rate will still mean that the population cannot be curbed. 'cause 1.2 billion, friends, is a _lot_.
The only ones who think India will become a developed nation[some even people a super power, heh] are loyally blind Indians and foreigners fooled by statistics of India's IT growth. We lack basic amenities lack drinking water in almost every region of even the posh areas. The air is polluted, the condition of the roads is pathetic in many place. We can't even meet our basic needs.
25% of the population lives below the poverty line; 25% of the population is unemployed. That's 250 million. More than the population of 90% of the countries in the world. It'll only increase. The percentage might go down eventually, but the number will still increase.
We Indians are mostly deluded. We do have brain power, the educational system here is rigorous, but it's more about just memorizing things and learning them rather than understand the concept thereof.
We will never become a super power.
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Man, I'm from India. If everyone starts living till they're 100 and stuff, we'll run out of space to stand.
I think he was making an awful joke, not being serious.
You got me. I'm actually pretending to be an Indian so that I could partake and offer my opinion on a topic on a nerd news site. Good job, Sherlock.
I'm from India. I know the truth of what's happening here by virtue of the fact that I live here. And the truth is, my country will never become a developed nation. The population has gone to a point where even if you try to curb it, it'll have a steady growth. It's standing at 1.2billion now and even a sharp decrease in the birth rate will still mean that the population cannot be curbed. 'cause 1.2 billion, friends, is a _lot_. The only ones who think India will become a developed nation[some even people a super power, heh] are loyally blind Indians and foreigners fooled by statistics of India's IT growth. We lack basic amenities lack drinking water in almost every region of even the posh areas. The air is polluted, the condition of the roads is pathetic in many place. We can't even meet our basic needs. 25% of the population lives below the poverty line; 25% of the population is unemployed. That's 250 million. More than the population of 90% of the countries in the world. It'll only increase. The percentage might go down eventually, but the number will still increase. We Indians are mostly deluded. We do have brain power, the educational system here is rigorous, but it's more about just memorizing things and learning them rather than understand the concept thereof. We will never become a super power.