@ultermotive An even better way to say it is that from a libertarian POV of the father(which I don't believe in), the ability to disagree, make your own mistakes and still coexist in a discourse which is becoming rare these days
@ScribblinSprrow People in our state give a lot of slack to the centre for not sanctioning new metro routes but look at how badly it is governed, with at max 3 coaches and profit being made a dirty word perfectly for the govt to acquire it at the same time having trans district travel free.
@HQuarterma43504 Not full on Milton Friedman free markets or centralized economy, but a mix of both with state control over critical sectors is needed in this era
so you’re saying you were making 2-3bn in profits every year for ~10 yrs
>yes dave
and after a decade of profits… you still couldn’t fund serious research with billions on the balance sheet
>that’s correct dave
The real black pill is not electoral politics but institutional continuity. Twelve years of a non-Congress government could do little to dislodge the Congress-Babu ecosystem. This near invincible permanent bureaucracy and its patronage networks explains much of India’s policy inertia, administrative inefficiency, and reform deficit.
Talked to a friend who works there and felt like Raag Darbari had come alive inside India’s highest executive offices. The same pettiness, insecurity, mediocrity, and performative status games you find in the average dehat. It’s just that they operate at a scale where the consequences directly affect millions like us.
the West pushes pro-capitalist free market policies in every other developing country, but in India they do the opposite and want the "70% street sh*tting" pre-2014 leftists to remain in power.
is it because they do not want to repeat the 'China mistake' of 'allowing China' to do free market reforms + state-incentivized industrialization?
also funny to see @suhasinih and other pre-2014 Indian regime propagandists push "journalism is in danger" narratives.
@ScribblinSprrow AP has this golden chance of building a city from scratch and for this political will, patience would be crucial,other wise it would become just another half good half crap cities we now have in our country