The relationship between these two countries must be pretty awkward. The former colonizer is now a failing nation, while the colonized has the future.
India consciously inherited the draconian colonial system of the past century, with all its inherent builtin cruelties, and has shown neither intent, nor any inclinations of changing this. It clearly serves the elite well to have this setup with a meek and famished population.
Take one simple metric: the literacy remains < 80%. China has near 100%, despite the complexity of the writing system. India thinks the issue is with its native languages (that its people actually understand) and now plans to 'leap-frog' China by teaching people everything in English.
India is set to create an entire generation of people who are skilled neither in their mother tongues, nor in the "progressive foreign language"; neither are they civilized in Indian traditions, nor in Western ones. A country with such mental handicap will go more in the way of sub-saharan Africa with all its meaningless violence.
Once the candles of the old civilization are finally extinguished, I expect a lot more violence. If anything India will end up as another basket case, and require a lot more humanitarian aid.
Also, your assertion that Indians don't actually understand English is stupid to say the least and justifies your creation of an anonymous account.
This could not be farther away form the truth.
India has one of the most aggressive affirmative action policies in the world. It is also quite socialistic in its setup with a huge among of social welfare, as compared to the taxes the Govt. collects.
As for the inherited bureaucracy, one thing Modi has done is reduce the power of the bureaucracy and try to move things into free markets. However, every attempt of such a thing leads either to international outrage (farmers protests) or internal protests led by the opposition.
> A country with such mental handicap will go more in the way of sub-saharan Africa with all its meaningless violence. Once the candles of the old civilization are finally extinguished, I expect a lot more violence. If anything India will end up as another basket case, and require a lot more humanitarian aid.
That's quite the leap of logic there.
India has a 1 billion people problem. Everything has a ton of inertia. It takes a lot to get the ball rolling here, but on the flip side, the flywheel effect keeps the momentum going even when faced with small bumps.
That being said, no amount of momentum can avoid a ditch like Demonetization.
Things may change quickly and surprise me, but even my 90% estimate for the U.K. is Brexit-related incompetence (as opposed to COVID-related, so yes things can go sideways for new and exciting reasons at short notice) is that the U.K. as a whole ends up at least as strong as Wales is now, and Wales is doing about 13 times better by GDP than India. And yes, I know GDP isn’t everything, and I know that hypothetically the whole of the U.K. getting into internal conflicts equal to The Troubles in Northern Ireland (my gut says 5% chance of that) could be utterly devastating to the entire fabric of the nation… but that hasn’t happened yet, 5% isn’t very likely, and the more likely internal conflicts within the U.K. are highly regional.
If I had to guess, I'd say the conflict is much much likelier to come back post-Brexit. Now that we're out of the EU, the "open movement" hack made possible by mutual EU membership no longer works without knock-on effects (customs checks, blah blah). I can't see Boris Johnson falling on the sword to safekeep the peace in NI, so if the push comes to shove, NI is more likely to be left to fend for themselves.
The thing I’m saying is p ~= 0.05 is P(The Troubles | scaled up from NI to whole UK), which would be ~123,500 dead and ~1,662,500 injured.
This is one of several reasons why I no longer live in the U.K.