Re: The difference between India and China
wow!! you guys are amazing....yeah yeah India is far far behind China...but that doesnt mean India will not pay PR agencies or on its own not get articles in media about whatever little good that happens...thats the way you create some positive buzz to attract investment (all mktg works that way, riht..you may not have the best of product - it may even be faulty but you sell it like it works perfectly).
I mean what are you guys telling Indians about the reality in India..they face it and and suffer coz of it everyday...but it still is a vibrant democarcy and at least one can be optimistic that Modi could one day be found guilty unlike China where there is just no scope of anything of the sorts...
Comparing Mumbai to HK is certainly silly...but not coz it "sunk" in those monsoons...those were the worst of monsoons and HK wold not have done much better...but its a silly comparison on lots of other counts.
And if you did read that article posted by Abdali, what you may realise is that you will love the China model as long as YOU do not suffer coz of any of the excesses that the state commits for the sake of all the progress...if YOU personally were being forced out of a place unfairly without adequate compensation etc...you may prefer that you at least have a say in the matters like the Narmada dam issue in India...But of course, if YOU are sitting outside your country living a cozy life or even the rich ones in your own country, that YOU would only be concerned about all the infrastructure projects and evey other development indicators zooming like they have been doing in China's case...YOU in that case will of course only regret all the slow progress
Guess India will have to live the slow life, face all the protests, the left and labour unions, swadeshi movements etc and see what best can be done to move ahead (China is a role model indeed but not a comprehensive one...Pakistan of course is a role model as well albeit in a different sense...)