Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Apparently you have no idea what time-lapse photography is.

Well what do you call it when they leave the camera just sitting there exposing for an hour?

[Nubclear]

Alright, alright, let's have another one:


v.


one is Mumbai India. The other is Shenzhen, China.
Guess lol!

[KrazyHorse]

Well what do you call it when they leave the camera just sitting there exposing for an hour?

A long exposure?

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Re: Re: Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

Originally posted by aneeshm
Part of the plan is not to actually do anything until you're impotent by comparison, and until you attack.

Patience is a virtue.

I doubt India's nuclear arsenal will ever be equal to, let alone greater than, America's. Even if the balance of power shifted that way, by that time we will have moved on to other things.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Well what do you call it when they leave the camera just sitting there exposing for an hour?

A long exposure?

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Tacc

one is Mumbai India. The other is Shenzhen, China.
Guess lol!

Wait....don't we hate China anymore???

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by BeBro


Wait....don't we hate China anymore???

The Indians clearly need to get more efficient about evicting folks from slum housing, just like the Chinese.

[germanos]

Originally posted by aneeshm


lol remember that we had a total peacenik pissant for a Prime Minister (Nehru), who didn't allow the army to use the Air Force, which would have allowed us to totally pwn China LOL?????//slash???

I hate the Congress.

What's the sanskrit word for dolchstoss?

[Nubclear]

vs.


Ignore the people in the nasty water - they have to go in there as India doesn't quite believe in infrastructure yet (too communist, I suspect. Real Hindus transcend poverty!) :\

[aneeshm]

It's pretty easy to have developed cities when you throw every unemployed person out, and bulldoze all slums and poor people's housing, and force them to live on the outskirts.

Did you know that the floating population of China is about 110 million? That's right - 110 million people are destitute, without a job, without a home, and wandering between population centres for jobs. The rural health and education systems have completely broken down. The Chinese countryside is royally fvcked. But for our loyal commie here, China is teh New Hope for Communism!




Heartless, compassionless bastard.

[Asher]

Originally posted by aneeshm
It's pretty easy to have developed cities when you throw every unemployed person out, and bulldoze all slums and poor people's housing, and force them to live on the outskirts.

India.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Asher

India.

Uhh.....

I was referring to China there.

[Pekka]

Well, I guess you are living in the past if you think ICBM is a cool club, and also if you think China is communist.

Most of the modern nations are like... 2 or 3 decades further already?

[Nubclear]

Standards of living in the whole of China have risen - generally they have risen much much faster in the coasts, but they have gone up everywhere. As well, China has to deal with the largest mass migration in world history (of course, it helps that China is lifting people out of poverty faster than any country in world history - it helps when you have such a miraculous economy).

Generally everything is better in China versus India. Infrastructure is better, access to healthcare, etc. China is becoming such a prosperous nation and its people are becoming so prosperous that they are seriously being looked at as a contender again on the world stage.

To India, this is completely alien. Some areas are doing very well, of course, but for the vast majority of people life hasn't and simply will not change. The poverty in Indian cities is absolutely shocking, and it is no different if you go to the countryside. I've been very compassionate in the pictures of Indian cities that I have shown - Indian cities look ghastly and extremely ugly. Indeed, Indian cities are rivaled only by perhaps African cities in the absolutely shocking despair and utter lack of human development.

China has one advantage going for it - the Chinese government is commited to growth. Thus, you see a lot of investment in things like infrastructure and lifting people out of poverty. You don't get this with India. Why? Indian culture just isn't suited for that sort of thing - politicians in India much prefer to play on Aneeshm-like stupidity ("The muslims are out to get us!!!1") and distract the population with silly issues rather than focus on things that are actually important, like building more power plants (or cleaner power plants), providing clean water to people, a strong police force to keep order....We saw this with the BJP, and hence why they were defeated: "India Shining" is an absolute scam, and the population recognised this.

Thus, it is absolutely no surprise whatsoever that China far surpasses India on almost every indicator of development. Sure, India has "democracy" (though this is highly suspect democracy in many places), but what point is there to vote if you can't eat? Indian culture is simply too corrupt and too chaotic to really start replicating what China is doing right now.

Someday India will get over its issues, become more like the West, and then really take off. But for the moment...India remains among the worst places in the world to live, and my sympathy really must go out to the Indian people that their government has not had the balls to take the steps necessary to ensure proper economic development.

[Sandman]

You forget that India's current economic boom started around the middle of the term of the previous BJP government.

Of course, there were no reforms before that. Nor any booms.

As for investing in infrastructure: the BJP has envisaged two projects which could change the face of India beyond all imagination:

The Golden Quadrilateral + North-South corridor

and

River Linking

The GQ/NS is nearing completion, and will be finished within a few more years.

If and when the River Linking project is completed, India becomes the country which it is impossible to compete with in terms of agriculture - we will swamp the world. Say goodbye to water scarcity or floods.

Only a nationalist could be proud of a few thousand kilometres of highways and some canals.