Some of 1st world countries you’ve cited do have a variety of meal options, parents are required to submit dietary preferences including allergies and religious reasons and kids are served accordingly.
And she is right, it is indeed a logistical challenge at India’s 3rd world budgets and incomparable scale.
A tiny, rich, homogeneous society ranking #1 is cute. Norway has a reason to be happy, grateful and proud. But at the same time, comparison with a country 250+ times larger and more complex is plain silly.
You don’t need a pseudoscientific ranking system to tell that India needs to improve. However, the Indian system is constantly stress tested by mass poverty, insurgency/separatism, vast linguistic fragmentation, hostile borders, extreme religious/ethnic conflict, billion-person democratic chaos. It still works. We know that it won’t become like Norway anytime soon. And we’ll never know whether Norway’s system would ever be able to withstand such stresses.
Many years ago, I gave two presentations on how China builds its industrial and technological ecosystem—one for an Indian audience and one for a Vietnamese audience. Although the content was largely the same and went into many details that were rarely mentioned in other settings, the feedback from the Vietnamese and Indian participants was strikingly different.
When I discussed the gaps between Vietnam and China, my Vietnamese friends listened very attentively to my analysis of Vietnam’s weaknesses. They even proactively acknowledged Vietnam’s deficiencies and asked me to analyze more specific issues in greater detail.
However, when I compared China and India, many Indian friends became quite argumentative. They tried to compete with or challenge the Chinese perspective on almost every point, to the point where I could barely develop my analysis. As a result, they might have won the debate, but missed a valuable opportunity to have a meaningful exchange.
So, I came to know which country would be the real winner for "China+1" many years beforehand.
The hallmark of civilisations have been long periods of peace where humankind has flourished interrupted by short but intense periods of conflict. The path to peace was and is, through negotiations to arrive at a just settlement that meets the aspirations of the people. Jai Hind
@GabbbarSingh Lindsey Graham, Trump’s attack dog, The same guy was barking at India over Russian oil a couple months ago. Might just be a pressure tactic. Take it with tanker of salt.
Lol😅 wrong. A boring uncharming guy can say all the “nice” things and you still won’t like him. But a real charmer can playfully challenge you, make you laugh, and you’ll happily go along with it.
Charm, humor, presence, and social intelligence aren’t the same as being a yes-man or pushover