I get comments like this on a regular basis. This one sums up the situation quite well, but many others are quite astute also. I am afraid that India is quite hopeless. I do not expect to see much positive change there before I die in the next 30 years or so. India reminds me of a stick in the mud. I really do not think that they want to change or that they even think they need to.
Shame on the Imperialist West for promoting this shithole as the Next Great Thing. I believe he is correct that this is all just a giant imperialist plot to contain China.
I worked in India for a few months and hated each day, each minute you could witness a dichotomy before your eyes. Arrogant professionals who thought they were specials, shopkeepers who treat you like a king and ordinary Indians like a piece of crap. What hits you first on e you move away from the new complexes is the smell, the poverty and hundreds of people living as f they are outcasts of society. Indian men have a dirty mind and are very perverse with those who had never been out of India asking about white women?
Prostitution is rife and my work colleagues weekend activity was to get drunk and hire a prostitute. Consequently I did not do much and tried hard to find another face to India so tried visiting historic sites and while I was in awe of Islamic history and the written history which I may add was always belittled by the Indian.
You soon realized they are neither a tolerant nor honorable people but a people with a massive chip on their shoulders stuck in 2 worlds one seeking westernization but trying to adapt their Hindu faith. Those who were successful were those who displayed zero practice in Hinduism and were 100% Western so much that it looked artificial.
The problem with Hinduism is that they have no real history and as a people are desperate for their own identity and blame The British and Arabs for everything yet Arabs settled not along The Ganges if anything Persian and Turkic people should be the brunt of their inferiority complex. Behind all this I suspected was a hidden fanatical teaching twisting history one that is neither secular or fair to non Hindus. For someone reading all the hysteria about India it was really all too peculiar and troubling as I sadly had nothing nice to say about Indian people and culture.
It makes you realize that India was being “marketed” as a great friend of the Western world ( previously pro communist) and from all Indians you would speak China always popped up. It makes me wonder if India was marketed and supported in the West to increase investment for the sole purpose of containing Chinese rise. If there is any truth in this I do believe a mistake has been made as I found a highly incompetent nation riddled in corruption, crime and caught between 2 worlds displayed a schizophrenic personality that would become its downfall.
Today they feel by shedding their Indian”ness” and becoming more Western is the answer, perhaps this is what India of the past did when more culturally and economically rich civilization came to conquer. If this experiment India fails I can see Indians blaming The Americans or the modern Western world for their incompetence and failure in the same way they blame The British and the Islamic Civilizations.
This is why I describe India to be a schizophrenic culture and nation, changing goal posts between culture, history depending on who they speak with.
Largely the cities are filled with a Jekyll and Hyde characteristics, backward men in suits trying to be Western and women too and it looked all a bit plastic. Adopting another’s culture was where China went wrong pre-opium wars and was the downfall of ancient Japan but also the Ottoman Empire for that matter. It is better to keep your culture and modernize from within not to replicate another but it also made me think if Indian indigenous culture is actually what holds it back and hence why the inferiority complex and schizo behavior of this nation.
I compared what India does today with China and Japan during The British Empire but This where the similarity ends because Chinese and Japanese civilization have a rich verified history and a glorious past where as the Hindus do not and direct you to unverified legends.
I see the Indian psyche as confused, bruised because of more empowering civilizations conquering them through out the ages and leaving their foreign identity / legacy behind yet they can not point to their own history.
India is trying to advance as quickly as possibly in the way it knows best through cheap labor, poor materials and in complete ignorance of the poor people living side by side tall buildings.
India is a dichotomy and it need to educate, feed and house their people and then move forwards.
It is all a bit of a muddle and a mess partly because of a confused in consistent faith and culture.
I was very disappointed with India and while the British and Islamic histories are fascinating to see and read there was no real evidence of their “supposed” great history and when questioned further a pattern emerged, the British and Muslims destroyed it yet their impact on Indian nation is comforting and It would be shocking to see what would have been if that history was not available.
A week living in India and meeting rude, unwashed, arrogant fools you soon become homesick quick.
Needless to say I did not extend my contract there.