--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Indeed, I was most surprised in one instance, about > ten days ago, that India was not placed in > the same league as China by a commentator who had > placed them both on an equal footing only some two > months earlier. > Mario responds: > On the other hand, I was not at all surprised IN SEVERAL INSTANCES over several months to see SEVERAL commentators place India above China in the longer term, mainly because of the greater freedoms in India and the growing relationship with the United States which will do it's utmost to help India to not be overshadowed by China. The rest is up to India. > Cornel writes: > > I hope you are right in this instance and that I am > wrong. I do want India to make it big in my > lifetime--in what's left of it. I'm sure you also > wish India well in your life-time too. > Mario responds: > It is you who is the cynical pessimist. There is no doubt about where I stand. For me India made it big and set the stage for the great things most of us "uneducated" people are seeing already - but apparently not your "educated" friends - when Manmohan Singh was able to shed the destructive socialism of the Nehru legacy and begin the process of "liberalization" which is India's euphemism for shedding socialism. > The only things slowing India down right now are a) the bureaucratic remnants of 50 years of the old destructive system, b) the presence of Communists in the coalition, c) the lagging infrastructure, and d) the lack of civic sense and consideration for others among many in the citizenry. > These will all improve with time and the acceleration of economic progress. >
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