“Science converts information into knowledge. Engineering converts knowledge into utility. Design converts utility into cultural behavior in context. Art takes that cultural behavior and questions our
perception of the world.”
-@NeriOxman
It wasn’t.
With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.
And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.
Harman, there are plenty in India too, Punjab and inside the Hari-Mandir premise! These are adding up by day and night. I have even witnessed such freaks in the gurudwara in the Gwalior fort.
@JasonWilde108 You can differentiate them with thr gaze at you and thr Arrogance. (the same applies to Palestine supporters and Pakistanis)
PM Narendra Modi did not inherit a launchpad. He inherited the burden of delayed decisions, weak infrastructure, policy paralysis, broken confidence and a country that had forgotten how to think big.
Since Independence, under multiple Congress governments, India crawled to a $2 trillion economy.
PM Modi’s 12 years: India has crossed $4 trillion. In 12 years, India has moved from hesitation to acceleration. From UPI to ports, from digital infrastructure to defence production, a new India has been unleashed.
And that is a political chargesheet against Congress.
For decades, Congress sold India poverty management as governance, entitlement as economics, and slow growth as destiny. Then they have the audacity to compare India with China, after wasting decades when China was building factories, ports, highways, scale and national ambition.
The China comparison is useless unless Congress first answers one question:
What exactly were you doing for 67 years?
Congress mocked ambition because it never had any.
@narendramodi converted ambition into national policy.
That is the difference.
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic:
"The next transition is coming this year."
2023: you wrote the code.
2024: you prompted Claude to write the code.
2025: you wrote loops that prompted Claude.
2026: you build the harness that runs the loops.
Each transition, the engineers who understood the new abstraction first moved ahead permanently.
The ones who waited caught up eventually — but never all the way.
Harness engineering is the 2026 abstraction.
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(1) PISA - India has taken only once, that too only two states.
(2) China has taken it multiple times, but only its wealthiest regions.
(3) Recent research shows Indian entrepreneurs are outperforming or at least matching returning diaspora ones.
(4) More and more of the best talent is staying in India.
(5) Indian democracy is doing well in its human capital push; much more is to be done. But China also has large parts where even basic deworming has not reached.