Comments on: India struggles to catch China

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:20:02 +0000

After reading comments, which spanned from 2006 to 2010, I noticed an interesting trend: the Indian commentators have become much more introspective over the years. The closer the comments got to the present time, the less cocky they became. Whereas initial comments from 2006 indicated a cocky attitude that India was certain to catch China and surpass it, the comments after 2008 seem to signal a surrendering of all hope of matching China and the sad lamenting of India’s glaring inadequacies. I wonder why the change? Is it possible that the 2008 Olympics in China finally opened the Indian eyes to the reality of how much India has fallen behind China? Is it possible the Indians have belatedly discovered that all the India Shinning slogans were just a marketing gimmick grounded in nothing but delusions and that India may never match China?

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By: justin

justin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:52:00 +0000

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“14 reasons why China and India are better off as friends”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2B_3H2kxwY

By: oohkuchi

oohkuchi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:20:58 +0000

I’ve seen India and lived in China and agree entirely with the writer. China and India at the moment are in different leagues, and the gap is likely to grow. Of all the huge differences, this one is perhaps the most important: while most rural Chinese can get easily to a city to find work and improve their living conditions, thanks to good roads and comms, most rural Indians are stuck in their villages. Chinese villages are half-empty now, but Indian ones still teem with millions stuck in nearly hopeless poverty. Indians can change their leaders, Chinese can change their lives.

By: Wu

Wu — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:40:39 +0000

All asian countries from the middle east to east asia have made tremendous progress in less than 20 years. india is the sick man of asia and cannot progress far even after 60 years.

China gets things done in building the nation. What have indians done for their people? Very little.

By: Karan

Karan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:39:16 +0000

This is a stupid comparison. Both countries have nothing in common except being large asian nations. Honestly, I am an Indian, and I am not concerned with what happens in other countries. I am just happy that India is growing the way it is, although I wish it grew faster to bring more people out of poverty. Plus I disagree with the author in passing judgement on something that may or may not happen in the future. 20 years ago people would have condescended China vis a vis the US similarly, but today many of them have been proven wrong. Who knows, maybe 10 – 15 years from today the same could happen in case of India.

People like Tatengo should grow up and stop generalizing about a billion people. In a globalized world, there’s no humiliation caused by speaking a certain language, or liking a certain culture.

By: T.C. Lim

T.C. Lim — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:21:20 +0000

I like Dr. P. Kumar’s posting better.

By: tatengo

tatengo — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:35:23 +0000

China is a great country with a great pride of its own people. India is not a great country and not a pride people. Lots of Indian have tried to get rids of Indian root by marry up to white people to have whiter skin children and more westernized. Indian are proud of speaking good English with as close as american accent as they can get, and try to forget their own native language. In highschool and university, the medium instruction is all in English. This is not right even for a small country like Philippines , where i grew up, but for India, a big country, i think it is a shame for indian to be proud of speaking good English. We fippino have not problem of English, but we still envy other asian countries of their culture background, like Chinese, Korean , Japanese, Thailand or Vietnamese. I feel that no matter how good is my English, I am still not a whtie, british person. I do not know of any Indian feel this humiliation of proud speaking English, and India is not a small country and should have its own destiny and self center as China. Even Indian in southeasia is looked down by local people. Chinese are looked up and respected over here.

By: Janak De

Janak De — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:46:42 +0000

Perhaps one should compare China in 1992 with India in 2007 to compensate the 15-year Chinese headstart.
I submit that India wins this comparision!