[Thread] Happy Independence Day! 🇮🇳 How far have we come since you were born?

My birth year was a year of Hindi-Muslim conflict, so is this year. Sadly, I've only seen it increase since the last 10-15 years or so. I don't know what to make of scientific progress when our mentality, morality and common sense is devolving. Women and children aren't safer. Roads still suck in metro cities. RTI applications don't mean shit. Corruption happens openly now. Education still hasn't improved much. People still leaving India for abroad (record numbers in the last 5 years). Definitely have a long way to go still.

We got nukes under vajpayee. Everyone keeps forgetting the most important moment. Also we need better freedom memes. Like a tiger wearing aviators with a tricolour in the background with the words freedom in ALL CAPS, like muricans do with the bald eagle.

I was born on the borderline; I can’t call myself a 90’s kid, no matter how much I don’t fit in this shitty genz’ cringe!

Worked in Gulf for 3 years but then decided to move back to India. Took a huge paycut. The most important reason was my son's education and his social interaction. Children who grew up in the gulf are anything but street smart. Social interactions are artificial. People hang out with each other becoz they have to. I still hang out with my friends I met 20-25 years ago, becoz we want to and not bcoz we have to. Also, there is no freedom to switch jobs. If you hate your job / boss you have to stick with it or go back to India. Felt suffocating after a few years.

My father could easily buy a independent house 🏠 with a garden , I can barely afford a flat. My father used to get manageable treatment in gov hospital but I have to be on mercy of corporate insurance My father could afford to take care of family of 7 members (2 parents + 3kids + wife ), I hardly see people having more than 1 kid My father retirement was secured , he gets monthly pension of 42k, I highly doubt 8 could afford to have that much saving so my retirement is secured My father never had to thought about which stock or MF to choose , the fd /pf rates were around 9/11pct. I have to take lot of market risk and still not sure of the return He got all this with a grade 3 job with just a graduate degree I even after graduating from a tier 2 college getting around 40lpa can't afford the same quality of life By income figures , I am in top 0.001 pct but seeing my lifestyle doesn't look so Not sure whether are we progressing or what

9-11% FD rate. Inflation rate 8-12%. So real return was 0-2% . It is same as present day in real terms.The other point you mentioned remains true even in developed countries like USA ( ie relatively higher cost of living).

1. Importing expensive luxury items to manufacturing some of them in India. 2. Reduction in terrorist attacks but increase in communal violence 3. Democratisation of knowledge through free medium 4. Information overload(makes it hard what to believe and what not) 5. I remember during my school days, cost of 1kg salt was 4 rupees. Now, it’s 28(7 times inflation in 2 decades). Used to pay 850 for 3 months school fees. Now, it’s in lakhs for a year. 6. Technological advancement(this is generic throughout the world) - went from watching movies on VCRs to DVDs to torrent to OTT. I remember watching my first film on theatre “Lost World”. 7. Cigarette prices went up from 5 to 18(went from chain smoker to non smoker now). This is nothing to do with rise in cigarette price.