Every single one of the points are a real problem.
But your understanding is broken, let me explain. :)
Norway has 55 lakh people. Total. That’s smaller than the population of Pune. Their entire country has fewer citizens than India’s 25 smallest cities individually. Norway also has 1.2 trillion dollars in sovereign wealth from oil reserves, accumulated over 50 years.
They have $250,000 per citizen sitting in the fund. India has roughly $3,400 per citizen in forex reserves.
Norway is what you get when a small population sits on top of one of the largest per-capita oil discoveries in human history.
The right comparison is other low-income, high-population, post-colonial democracies. Brazil. Indonesia. Nigeria. Bangladesh. Pakistan. Egypt. Mexico. South Africa. Vietnam. Philippines.
Compare on these and India isn’t doing badly. It’s doing better than most.
UPI is the world’s largest real-time payments system.
Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric identity system.
We absorbed the global pandemic, the Ukraine war, the West Asia conflict, Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and a rupee fall without going into recession.
Most of those countries above did. Pakistan went to the IMF 24 times. Sri Lanka collapsed. Bangladesh is unstable. Egypt needed emergency Gulf bailouts. Argentina has 60% inflation. We stayed standing.
India is the only country in human history to add a trillion dollars of GDP every 18 months. We added our first trillion in 2007. Our second in 2017. Our third in 2024. Our fourth coming in 2026.
The problems you mentioned exist in every large, low-income, high-density country on earth.
Mexico City’s pollution is worse than Delhi’s.
Manila’s traffic is worse than Mumbai’s.
Lagos has worse road quality than Delhi.
Jakarta has worse air than Delhi.
Cairo has worse adulteration.
Karachi has more corruption.
Hanoi has higher pollution.
None of these countries are run by Modi. They’re all dealing with the same impossible math.
Industrialising a country of 145 crore people during a global energy transition, with limited natural resources, while keeping democracy intact, is the single hardest governance challenge in human history.
> China did it without democracy.
> South Korea did it with a population one-tenth our size.
> Japan did it with no major religious or linguistic diversity.
> Singapore did it with 50 lakh people total.
Nobody has done it at India’s scale, with our diversity, in democratic conditions.
So when someone asks “why hasn’t Modi built one city like Norway,” the answer is because building one Norway requires not having 144.5 crore other Indians to look after.
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@JoelWebbon@alexstein99 Pls stick to ur existing lane of stupidity than trying new avenues like this.
If this is your take on Hinduism, then both ur sources & the time u spend on them are obnoxious enuf that u need special asylum.
Or u are well funded with an agenda, that u need to be investigated.
I would recommend India's dairy industry to be vigilant, audit and improve safety standards, and monitor chemical adulteration & sabotage. This advise especially goes to @Amul_Coop, given its Gujarat connection and big success in India and abroad.
Reasoning:
Isn't it interesting that right after India rejected both US and EU dairy entry which was pressed on us, some organizations have suddenly, after decades and decades of co-operative milk farming in India, tested their milk to declare there's "high levels" of bacteria in them?
Also, the quality of scare mongering graphics and PR material being shared on SM and whatsapp looks foreign organized propaganda material. Not like it was done by one or two "activist" orgs in India.
But the issue for them is, this scare mongering is bound to fail. Indians have been drinking raw milk and milk coming in half cleaned tankers for decades before. Indians always boil milk and drink. So this campaign will pass.
That's why I'm worried. I feel this is just the trailer. They will try to use the deranged insider front in India, programmed via SM, to physically sabotage at least a batch of milk supplied to Indian dairy industry. It will be tested for cancer causing chemicals and what not.
This will be the real scare to hit - India's dairy industry locally, its exports, the GoI credibility and stability pinning blame on them, and pave the way for imports through public demand. As I always say, when there are more than one mango to be hit with a stone, the adversaries will always act. This fits such a bill.
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@CMShehbaz After killing Hindus in Pahalgam, wishing Hindus on Diwali. Shameless Pakistan. They have systematically killed and converted Hindus, Christian and Sikh community in Pakistan. And Ahmediyas are discriminated and killed every week. Most third class terror country in the world.
Shame on you @ANI for the loaded headlines - you should have shown last year’s clip for reference and appreciated the monumental effort of BJP Govt led by @gupta_rekha ji
Nevertheless, let me show it so people will applaud a job well done
Crazy that Vijay's @X account has been suspended even though the Court explicitly ordered removal of only those posts that called Malabar Gold a "sympathiser of Pakistan". Vijay had merely said Malabar Gold used a Pakistani influencer for promotion.
I stand with @vijaygajera.
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