The rhetoric in India over the last decade has successfully turned two communities (Hindus, Muslims) against each other to the point where public calls for violence and economic boycott are an everyday occurrence.
Hard to thrive in that environment
Also, how is the social strife actually reflecting itself?
The U.S. has a homicide rate that is more than double that of India. That indicates that the U.S. has far more social strife than India.
This is an excellent article
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/world/asia/india-region-m...
that talks about how India’s “social strife” in your terms has impacted its relationships with its neighbors. It’s useful, because (1) it has no data, which is quite typical of such articles, and (2) it uses the claim of social strife to predict a specific result. Worsening relationships with neighbors.
So we can test the results. And turns out, little more than a year later, India’s relationships with its neighbors (outside Pakistan, for obvious reasons), has never been better.
India, as an extremely young, diverse, and massive democracy has a lot of issues. Its very hard to see in actual numbers and data that those issues, including “social strife” have actually worsened over the past few years, beyond the impact of the pandemic.
Objectively speaking, regardless of your political leanings or religious views, I can’t see how leaving out 1/5th of your people will help everyone progress.
Oppression and economic prosperity are not mutually exclusive.
There are 1.3 billion people here. There are fewer incidents than what we see coming out of Portland OR alone. Or France and Sweden in December end.
The problem is that the current government does not listen to the West any more. Pfizer etc were shown the door. Russian gas imports have increased massively since April 2022.
There's an election coming up and the current government is likely to continue.
Hence the coordinated attacks by the BBC and this short-seller.
If you think that the current govenrment doesnt listen to the West then you dont really understand the balance of economic power in the world. Virtually all of the growth that India as achieved in the last 20 years comes from selling to the West. If we shut you down like we did with Russia, how long do you think your economy would last. India is only as big as the UK or France in economic terms, they have a good growth story, but dont think you're in anyway big enough to cause the west any problems or big enough to ignore what they want.
The self-entitled arrogance
We're much stronger now, economically and otherwise.
If attempted, see how it accelerates de-dollarisation. R5 has already been announced. The moment OPEC switches away from the dollar, the US economy is done for.
Just Brahman things