Kamlesh

What happened since the last 70 years

I usually don't share LinkedIn content but this one was on point

6mo ago

DaringTrain

Just like most narratives, here also facts not align with the story. All anecdotes, not a single objective fact. "More than 5 correspondents.." Amazing. What was the growth rate that decade? Or those 50 years?

Kamlesh

Stealth6mo

Buddy, you might want to look at how many Indians now run companies and hold board seats in America and other countries.

It wouldn't have been possible without a good education at the least. The post talks about presence and influence of India in the global stage despite all odds, not GDP growth. That wasn't the point.

DaringTrain

Stealth6mo

This post wants to justify how India was always at the helm of world affairs which simply isn't true. We weren't for ~50 years of our independence. Nobody knew about India, nobody cared about India. We had lost wars against one of our neighbours and were being strategically dominated by another. Our population was still meaningful, but we weren't anywhere in the discussion economically. We were probably then, the tenth most important Asian country, behind Japan, East Asian Tigers, China.. Despite all odds? What a joke! Why do think that we had poorer odds? When we got independence, we were in a great position to dominate Asia at least. See where China was, where Japan was, where Korea/Thailand/Sgp were. There's nothing to glorify about those 50 years. It's a black hole. We lost all advantage. We were in such a bad shape, we defaulted on our Int'l commitments. We had to ship gold just to pay back our loans.

Elon_Musk

X.com6mo

And yet we don't have a seat at the big boys table - UNSC We are still treated as shit across the globe even though we have expats working in nearly all big companies and institutions globally. All this romanticized bullshit sounds endearing but holds no sway. Just because some song or movie is famous worldwide doesn't mean people of that country support or respect us.