This is NOT the India I grew up in

//This is not the India I grew up in, where there was some trust left between religious communities and people were mostly tolerant of each other.

This narrative is as fake as that of Rahul Gandhi 's sincerity during his temple visits before elections. This PEW survey, done as recently as 2021, has 98% Muslims SELF-REPORTING that they are FREE TO PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION in India, with virtually no one answering "not at all free". 24% say there is "a lot of discrimination" against Muslims, compared to 72% who say "not a lot" (with the remaining 4% answering "Don't know"). To put these figures in perspective, when Pew put the exact same question to Americans, 80% of AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 46% of HISPANIC AMERICANS, and 42% of ASIAN AMERICANS said they face "a lot of discrimination" in the U.S. And USA is supposedly the greatest multicultural, liberal and free space there is, scoring much above India in democracy indices always.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/06/29/religion-in-india-tolerance-and-segregation/

I have NOT MENTIONED Islam or Muslim anywhere in my post above. Why do you come butting in with your bigoted naked communalism peddling fake propaganda? Insecure much?

//This is not the India I grew up in. Democratic institutions were fairly independent

LMAO! Hateful bigots like you need to read up on how Indira Gandhi and PN Haskar (her chief bureaucrat and strategist) assumed control of all institutions through a Committed Judiciary, Committed Bureaucracy and Pliant journalism. Later on academic control was ceded to the Marxists in a convenient arrangement. Since then, the whole of Academia, Judiciary and Bureaucracy have been within the firm grasp of the Congress led secular-left-liberal ecosystem.

But "Modi is taking over all institutions" just because darbari propagandists like Ravish Kumar say it, so it must be tr00 bruh!

What makes you believe that it is we, who did it?

1. We are not the ones who escalated this matter .

2. As a democratic nation which is a victim of religious terrorism 1000 years and counting, and given Canada's own pronouncements to rule of law, why have they given shelter to Khalistani terrorism who are openly targeting Indian state assets in their soil?

3. What makes you think we are suspending bilateral trading relations?

4. They stand to lose out on much more than us. India is the best bet to export disinflation to the West after decoupling from China.

5. Not everything can be measured in terms of $$, nahin toh maa ko bechke bhi kha sakte hain.

As I said doesn't matter who is wrong or right. At the end it impacts the average guy if prices increase due to worsening bilateral trades. Yes religious terrorism is bad but we can only request countries to do something about it but usually they don't give a f. And well..... Pretty sure our politicians and rich people will sell their mothers and motherland to make more monnies.

03-08 FED (and Beyond) interest rates were at their historical LOWEST even at the peak of Subprime (look up your shared link) Don't really know where you are trying to get at BUT Correlation does NOT equal causation. Just because money is available cheaply does NOT mean investments are bound to come my way, economic fundamentals matter. A Zimbabwe did not get funds flowing in their direction just because ZIRP.
So, drop the cocky pretensions and read on as I SCHOOL you.

03-08 was a GOLDEN RUN for the GLOBAL economy. The US had growth rates of 3.5-4%, even a PAKISTAN had high growth rates of close to 7%. China ofc was the runaway winner. This was brought about by a deluge of developed world capital flowing into Emerging Markets. What Congress led UPA gov did was taking this as granted and OVERSPENDING after taking massive loans on inefficient "Right to Xs" thereby HEATING the economy up to dizzying levels. The 03-08 period growth had NOTHING to do with socialistic Congress/UPA but more to do with this ONCE IN SEVERAL DECADES global liquidity glut + BJP ABV reforms effecting with a lag.

Don't go by my word for though: Here is Ruchir Sharma

https://m.economictimes.com/opinion/interviews/pre-2003-growth-rates-to-be-new-normal-for-indian-economy-ruchir-sharma-morgan-stanley/articleshow/14004922.cms

Following this, the world NEVER came back to these levels of growth. The US peak growth halved more or less from 4% to 2-2.5%. So sustaining 8-10% growth for India also became infeasible. As Ruchir says, given India's fundamentals during UPA we would only average 4-4.5 going forth. The double whammy of inflation, lack of growth, and over leveraged banking sector (where Congi friendly bizmen got cheap loans but the conditions to make repay the loans were no longer there owing to slowing growth) led to fall in consumption as well as investment. This meant we were in DOLDRUMS. The whole economic mess lasted well into 2018 (BANK NPA).

Adding to the above:

Since global growth halved from the UPA-2 peak of 03-08, BJP still did great by sustaining 6-7 average growth till the pandemic happened. The inherent imbalances of NPA leading to lack of private investments, overheating took a few years into Modi's term to sort out. BUT, we are back now.

//Indira Gandhi tore Pakistan into 2 Of what use is it, when we could not even bargain for PoK in return for Bangladesh. In fact, Bangladesh has infiltrated many more Bangladeshis 1.5-2 crore in WB and Assam than Pak could have ever hoped for. Under a nuclear overhang things have changed A LOT.

//India-China Trade deficit touched USD 70 billion.

Who ballooned the Indo-China trade and made India rely upon Chinese imports to the detriment of industry? Look at the figure of 04 Indo-China trade vis-a-vis 2014. Yes the answer is CONGI.

//Pakistan is no longer relevant to US

Is that why the US removing them from FATF blacklist, giving them plum weapons package and/or initiating an Army led regime change coup against Imran Khan?

Now SIT DOWN.

Very interesting. He was killed by US drone strikes in Afghanistan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_of_Bhausaheb_Maruti_Talekar

Got killed in US aerial attack yes!

-Are you sure none of these happened earlier? -Are you of the opinion that industrialization should not happen since it requires land acquisition? And did all such industrial land acquisition only happen post 2014? In which case, do you choose to opt out of your job as that might require you to go to your physical office which would also have likely displaced some unprivileged sections of the society? -Were the cow thieves and smugglers, not lynched earlier too because the state failed to enforce l&o? -Did India become suddenly unsafe for women post 2014? -Were there no Muslim on Hindu or vice-versa aggression and discrimination before 2014?
-Deaths from the pandemic are hidden? A basic statistical look will dispel all such notions.

You are speaking like a Congi propagandist here. Easy to punch holes in your rhetoric without even rebutting them. Anyone unwarrantedly calling anyone 'IT Cell' is suspect.

This government was elected on the premise that things would be better. If they're not improving, they should be questioned. People don't elect governments to maintain status quo.

Women are not safer than before, it's a fact. PM still hasn't visited Manipur and conflict is still ongoing, it's a fact. They promised to curb corruption and bring back black money but haven't, it's a fact. Demonetisation was poorly planned, killed businesses and led to deaths, it's a fact. They promised lokpal and still haven't delivered, it's a fact.

There was no preparation for the second wave even though we could see death and destruction in the first wave. Utter failure of systems with destitute people running around for basic medicines and oxygen.

One just needs to look at the BJP election manifesto to see which promises are still unfulfilled 5-10 years later.