Ranjit Bajaj had to mortgage his wife's jewellery to fund the U-14 Indian football team's trip to Europe. they achieved a historic treble and team scored 295 goals in 23 matches. It's high time we start supporting our own players ๐ฎ๐ณ
This speech will not go viral
Because Sadanandan Master of BJP is not a fashionable liberal with designer bag
Communists in Kerala attacked him and cut off both his legs
But our intellectual class considers Communists as guardians of democracy
๐ฏ agree with him. His analysis is good.
I will also add that China's faster rise is because it slept with the west, literally and figuratively. Though it always likes to blame India as doing the things it does.
It allied with the US, helped it against the USSR, got rewarded with trade, IP, and WTO. Bribed its way into elite circles of the west, compromised them, made them enable its stealing and copying. And using authoritarianism at home was able to fast forward development with an iron hand selectively.
But it never reached that far ahead of India. It is still far behind the US or even a democratic Taiwan, and much behind some advanced European countries.
And how long can this last? A section of the west wakes up eventually. A person like Trump comes along. And can end everything by destroying the corrupted elites of the west and forcing the rest of the west to align with the US.
This is what is happening. So it doesn't matter the US wins or loses this battle. Eventually China will pay a price and India will pull ahead. And in my view, it's going to happen in 2040s itself, not even in 50 years. And if there's a collapse of the CCP, it may happen in 2030s itself.