Leezah:
Where in India are you?

Haryana

rossniti:
Stop talking rubbish. In the decades WHEN India officially had the highest number of poor people of any country, did you see any Indians smearing their country as the "poverty capital of the world"?

A BIG FAT NO IS THE ANSWER. They never made it an issue to broadcast to the whole world, like some of you dumb and thoughtless Nigerians. Because they knew that such bad press was counterproductive to investment, national income, and development.

Sure, they criticised their national shortcomings, but it was never done with the vile self hate, and blanket denunciation of their entire country the way some of you do.

Quite who you're hoping to impress with that approach of endless self flagellation, no one knows. You just sound repetitive, unimaginative, and unintelligent.

Not really, such people are in every country. I hope you read entire message. This is a psychological thing which greatly depends upon political environment of your country also. That's why rich Italians cry but poor Brazilians are happy.

"Highest number of poor people" has not really been cared about in India as people always knew we had very large population. Even if today you go and tell them that Nigeria and Congo have more poor people than India and China, Indians won't believe you. But they won't cry as they know their population.

Poverty also was barely an issue in India. Money was not a part of culture and government defined development in term of education and healthcare only from 1950s to 70s. Business consciousness and affluence only rose after 80s. But poverty had started to decline to great degree from then.

It is not that Indians don't say bad about their country's illness. They don't bcelebrateeing better than world's worst countries (Africa/Afghan/Pak/Bangladesh) nor have any interest in that but they get immediately ashamed when they are told that these countries are equal to or better than India.
Here you are trolling Nigerians, Kenyans, Rwandans and South Africans because your politics is connected with countries like yours.

But Indians on internet interact with and are insulted by Americans, Chinese, Japanese Turks, Canadians and Europeans which are much richer than our country. So go to Indian channels and see whom they compare with.

Why US, China and Japan produce more cars than India is a great issue in India that Indians don't celebrate producing many times more than entire Africa. They are more upset about how US, Russia and China managed to land on moon before India than telling other countries in world that India is ahead of them in space.

Same here, In a TV debate:
A government party politician will say, "India has just 3% extreme poverty left and will start using new higher standards of poverty". The journalist will rebuke him saying, "China has just 0.5%, what is big deal?"

In past decade, India's GDP per capita was behind Africa, became equal and higher in 2017 and by 2030, will be double. Still Indians will not troll Africans. But they will still cry because China and western world still remain ahead of India. But they will insult Pakistan for sure which is also falling behind.

Because Indian politics is connected to China, West and Pakistan etc. but not Africa. I hope you understand.

You will see Indians calling India a failed third world democratic experiment or world's new Nazi Germany a lot. They are not worst. But just not being worst can't make you happy. Nigeria is having just its bad times for a while.

Leezah:
Where in India are you?

Right now in Haryana.

Lazyyouth4u:

India is a very corrupt country. You can’t get anything done in India without cutting corners, bribing or using contacts in high places. Don’t say they learn these things in Naija. They are ogbologbos in their country and just blend naturally in Naija as everything in Naija is as it is in India. Have you ever been to India?

Try to be here in India, you'd never which government official would have called police upon you and gets you beaten. Indians are relatively content than being self-centered like Africans.

Omonaijablog:
the way from New Delhi, the capital city of India, the home of Bollywood

Old Mumbai and not New Delhi is the home of Bollywood.

Omonaijablog:
that is the second largest movie industry in the world just behind Hollywood

Bollywood is larger than Hollywood in films produced and viewership. It only ranks behind Hollywood in box office revenue and that too not really. But because Bollywood tickets are cheaper than those of Hollywood.

Badonasty:


lol...Israel can have nuclear weapons ,India can have nuclear weapons, Pakistan can have but not Iran....nawa ooo

Nobody allowed these countries to have nukes.

India secretly developed nukes in 1960s and was sanctioned for decades when it revealed them. Pakistan was provided with nuclear weapons by world powers to balance India.
Israel is a close US ally.

rossniti:


Donkey, the British built railroads that boosted internal trade, plus massive factories, in the US, not to mention mass education, and invested heavily in power plants and education in India. They built universities and engineering institutes across India and the US. The university of Calcutta was established by them in 1857.


Then the university of Mumbai was built the same year, followed by others in quick succession. None of this was done in Nigeria or black Africa.

WE had to start from ZERO in the 1960s.

I mean, your ignorance stinks to high heavens.

Most of India's modern institutions responsible for SciTech in India today were built after independence. British built universities are only known "humanities" subjects and hosting communist movements in India.

"British brought tech to India" is a completely bullshit if you compare inventions and as well as tech accessibility in India before and independence. Trains weren't some sort of alien technology that was a big deal even in early 20th century.

British got benefited from India and not vice versa. Indian forces acted as self funded killing machines taking over entire middle east. Soon as India got independence, Britain stopped being a major power and eventually fell into irrelevancy.

India was almost zero if not zero in 1947. And we even suffered more because US & UK were directly hostile to us till 80s. We had world's largest hungry population, no money, had two hostile neighbors (China and Pakistan) and over that US, UK & Soviet Union were after India's Kashmir. It was a nightmare. Things are better a million times now and hopefully keep improving.

And no, British didn't built any "massive" infrastructure in India. They just built a couple of routes for their transports most of which are closed now.

India built world's second largest road network and fourth largest train network after independence.

theenchanter:
never will Ind*a be mentioned without Goel popping out.

May be

Lightangel65:
Now I know why Chinese hates blacks stealing their ladies,
And India is like that cause the mostly raped and killed most of their women

China and India have low fertility rates and slow growths of population as compared to other developing countries. Females naturally have a lower probability of getting born than males because of patterns concentration of X & Y chromosomes. This is purely biological.

As for Chinese and Indians, blacks aren't even considered attractive in China. Chinese hate whites, blacks, browns, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese etc. all and openly discriminate or harass them. If you call them racist in their country, they will harass you even more. They even wiped out other races in their own country and only Hans live there now.

For Indians, no, African countries have much higher rape rates and female mortalities than India. Such things are a problem for India but routine for Africa.

ArabicBerber:


Long debunked misinformation. India does have a better poverty ratio than Nigeria, but its large population of over a billion still leaves hundreds of millions in extreme and nominal poverty making this fake news such a ridiculously obvious lie only actually believed by those of low IQ and or prejudice.

An updated version than being fake, China is heading towards being a developed country from a middle income, and India is heading towards being a middle income country from a lower middle one. So, their poverty ratio this time has reduced so much that their poor populations are smaller than Nigeria.

India has reduced 70% of its poverty poverty in just 8 years, 21% to 5.5%.

puremaker7:
so u actually believe india can stand China if it turn to full blown war?

Yes, since 1962, China has not been able to gain in any single India China conflict. Nathu La Cho La clash to Doklam. China has captured what it could 50 years. Mountains are a hell for them to move ahead.
Over that, India has a high firepower.

Over it, India's mountain force is much larger than Russia & China, which was much smaller in 1962 when India lost.

tamdun:

I think China is too big for them, imagine Microwave tech fa

Lol really? Both China & India have microwave and laser weapons. They are not used to kill people but irritate and dismantle mobs.

India left a cliff after negotiations after China agreed to step back on another. And stupid British and Chinese tabloids started talking of microwave weapons for gloating, don't even know how microwave weapons work.

Rosskivvy:


Shut up, fool. You indians have ALWAYS been racist against black people. Even your rotten, barbaric culture considers the black 'Dalits' as 'untouchables'.

Discrimination against Dalits wasn't pan India. Hinduism has any branches.

As for blacks, they have been racist about Indians for more than a 100 years. Hell, we are hated by Latinos, blacks, Whites and East Asians. Unlike Africans, Indians grapsed the system of these countries and became one of richest communities from Africa to Europe and Americas instead of crying racism. And knowledge we gained we used to uplift the technological and economic aspects of our own country which is now heading ahead economically and militarily to compete with world powers.
Complaining about oppression hurts our egos but you guys do it at diplomatic level too.

Rosskivvy:

India was founded and civilized by BLACK Africans, whom you call Dravidians, and all your old gods like Krishna, Vishnu, Brahma, and the rest were originally depicted as black, till racism entered your dumb, stupid heads, and you started painting them white.

Entire human race has single origin in Africa. It doesn't change the fact the community which migrated to India is better than which stayed in Africa.

And skin color is relatively a stupid concept to judge India and only shows how little you know. In 90s and 2000s, a fair skin was considered a symbol of beauty. It was never nothing more than that and became faded in 2010s and now facial features serve as that symbol. Indian Gods are painted in various colors as we didn't know which color they had.

I used used to quite fair in my childhood, became very dark in my teenage and am brown in my adults.
Race and ethnicity are mostly stupid concept in India. We have discrimination in our society also but on caste. And if you believe it is otherwise, you have failed to understand anything about India.

Racism means nothing more than calling each other with stupid names and jokes in India. And we don't make an issue out of it unlike blacks who run movements against this too.
Obviously it's not about right or wrong but because words of an idiot have little impact on my life.

Rosskivvy:
Now you are racist to the core against blacks, and even against your own dark-skinned Indians.

This is not racism. This is judgement of national trait.
A black citizen of US or Europe will be treated in India with due respect. Suspections are if person is Nigerian, Ghanian or Kenyan.

We are a symbol of liberal democracy in east like America is in west. Our textbooks, our parents' teachings and our movies in general are quite progressive, they teach harmony and equality and Africans are generally taught as our "brothers" who suffered in hands of colonialists just like us.

Problem has arosen in recent days when we started to interact with Africans. Obviously, they offering me hashish, shooting on streets and hitting my car with his after drink and drive and will complaint of racism when I smash him.

Only Africans in India are responsible community for their bad image in India right now.
Nothing is going to help you guys till you continue to try to protect criminals in garb of racism.

Rosskivvy:
Yet you are the first to cry racism when whites do the same to you.

Fcking idiots.

We don't. Even if some Indians do, these incidents are very very small in numbers as compared to blacks.


When we got independence, Africans had more than three time of our GDP per capita. We had lot of enemies and faced international sanctions, no natural resources and still came about better than you.

Only reflects how useless your stupid countries are. Africans in West Indies are civilised and best in the world. But Africans in Africa are worst savages.

Next day, they will again be arrested for trafficking drugs or doing gangwars on streets on Delhi and African Union will accuse of India of racism.
Unlike racist whites, Indians had a relatively good image of Africans until they started to come here.

Ogaonos:
am tired of replying iignorance pple on nairaland.go and Google tiananmen square protest in 1989 on china and how it change china .

How ignorant someone can be. These were Deng Xiaoping's industrial drive started much earlier which turned China into an economic power, not ruckus by angry youths.
Revolutions only destroy existing system, they never build a new one. Nigeria too underwent a civil war but still is incompetent. India and Southeast Asia caught up to growth path without even conflicts in meantime.

Tabasco23:
explain

There is a lot I've made in long posts. In case you make your opinion by watching TV and not going with statistics, you most certainly are misguided.

Ogaonos:
I will give them examples of china and USA govt being govt DT scared of their youths.also make them undastand that the India govt have no fear of their youths and the youths have no VOICE to control the political system.though India have the same population human resource and vibrant youth like china but not developed like china because of these reason.

Stupid post by a far cry. China neither has liberties for youths nor much youths itself. Democracy is only for accountability against corruption and not a reason for performance. US, China & India have their own different administrative and historical reasons for their current situations.

Revolva:


You are a very big slowpoke..why won't I compare it or am I d only one that have seen d statistics of India ..

What am saying is India has a high rape case than nigeria so deal wit it and stop crying rape all the time

Not every thing you attribute to rape ok

Can you provide stats for that. India is generally having lower crime rates and one of lowest rape rates in world. But media coverage is high because of activism.

Nigeria is relatively backward with even weaker legal and statistical system that we don't even have correct data for Nigeria.

Tabasco23:
yes but women's rights in India, it's like they don't even have rights

Then you don't know anything about India.

Tabasco23:
stop saying all of Asia, women rights suck in India(some places are exceptional) but as for north Korea NO. Only these two countries can't think of any other places in asia

Women rights even in India can't be compared to those situations in Africa. At best, you can say women and men equally suffer in some African countries.

tylann:

What about infrastructure

Resources part plays a great role here too.

samsard:
Which one is official cyber crime? We are talking of criminals and you're mentioning official ones. What makes you think those countries are too big to have internet fraudsters?

I didn't say they are too big to have fraudsters. I said they do espionage on government basis and their systems are good enough to prevent as much fraudsters internally on civilian basis.

Tabasco23:
stop saying all of Asia, women rights suck in India(some places are exceptional) but as for north Korea NO. Only these two countries can't think of any other places in asia

Yes, even in North Korea and India. Nothing compares their state in Africa where everyone suffers less or more equally.

Cousin9999:
The entire continent of Asia. Easily.

Yes really lol.This article is a piece of shit. Or list me any 5-8 African countries where women have equality better than any country in Asia except middle east.

tylann:

Many countries have done economic reforms including India why have they not achieve China like growth

China had a head start from having a powerful empire at end of world power, got technology transfers from US & USSR and enjoyed very friendly diplomatic relations at trade hence at that time when India was isolated and treated like North Korea is being today. So, China got benefits directly from them when Indians didn't have money for international trade and used to exchange rice directly to import shoes.

Over it, China has world's largest reserves of various kind of natural resources which is worth $22 trillions. Without resources, China's per capita GDP (PPP) will fall same as that of India despite all historical advantages.

Schrodinger1:
Imagine embassies being shut down even though our Covid-19 cases were not as severe as that of India or some other countries where they've been in full operation since July 15.

With your current level of testing, your cases can't near US, Brazil, India or Russia by a long shot.

samsard:
Which one is official cyber crime? We are talking of criminals and you're mentioning official ones. What makes you think those countries are too big to have internet fraudsters?

I don't say these countries don't have cyber fraudsters, their crime rate in general is low. Even if they lead in numbers is because internet penetration is more there.

samsard:
SARS have a role, but what they're doing is simply picking up random citizens, violating our privacies, and extorting us.

There are cyber criminals even in the US. FYI, China, Russia, and India do more damage in terms of cyber crime than Nigerians can ever dream of.

US, Russia, China, India and Japan etc. have official cyber armies. They are different things with different purpose.

Wisemfon:
Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject technology

We didn't get any technology from Brits. It's all their own propaganda after they could not get anything to malice India's image after our rise post independence.
Trains and basic automotives were not a very hard to manufacture thing. Most of small and poor independent countries had obtained this tech in early 20th century.

Indians made initial war rockets which were reverse engineered by British by name of (Congreve rockets) which eventually became basis of European missiles. We developed our Jiva and Ardhjiva system of calculus which was translated as trigonometry by British Edmund Gunter and became an integral part of advanced mathematics today.
And I'm not talking about conspiracy theories. If you will go through what British accept they got from India, list is so long. And the "technology" British love to brag about they brought India, their list won't exceed bloody trains which they brought for their VIP transport.

In fact, if you search about British inventions from 1600 to 2000, you will come to know that British themselves didn't have technologies. All their pride was to modify either German or French machines or steal some idea from Asian countries.
They do propaganda of liberating us from Muslims and unifying our country. But fact is that, Hindu Maratha empire controlled 80% of India and was moving ahead to control east pacific when British came.

Brits had to fight 6 wars with India before colonising us. They lost 5 wars with us and then made peace to stay in our country and sabotaged us from inside. Thereafter, they did pass laws to distribute separate societal structure that supports caste system and propagated about ending sati etc.. Our caste system had become dysfunctional, British revived it and spread rumours too to spread distrust among people.

Once again, our kings had banned Sati also long ago in 1500 & 1600s when Britain didn't even exist. If they wouldn't have come, India would have spanned from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia.

UK never did anything good to India nor UK was any great country in itself. They are just a bunch clever cheaters. It came as a friend but backstabbed us, stashed our money and ran away. There is no other contribution Britain has ever made to India. Anything good is just their propaganda to whitewash.

They still don't have anything and survive on America's mercy.

Omooba77:
In this wise, analysts will not be wrong to compare Nigeria with countries like Ghana, Malaysia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and a few others with whom it had some shared experience of gross poverty, inequality, dysfunctional political system and massive corruption, at some point in time.

Just poor just isnt sufficient to compare these countries to Nigeria. Nor these countries can be compared to each other. Ghana and Bangladesh etc. are more or less same as Nigeria (improved version in human development indicators due to some good efforts). Nigeria, Ghana or Bangladesh don't have any sophisticated industrial or technological eco system to go beyond a certain level. Nor they are working on it.


Out of Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia are dependent upon foreign entities and companies for push for their countries' technological upliftment. Only China, India and Brazil have indigenous capitalist class and will survive any long term crisis if countries stop helping each other.

Problems of these countries too were different if you want me to write a long list.

Khaleepha5681:
is it not true that India is second to us in term of poverty?

It is also true that India is way better in terms of poverty ratio and looking its numbers is stupidity. If Nigeria is a country, India is like an entire continent and you can compare only with ratios.
If India has same number of poor people as Nigeria, India also has 15 times population of non-poor people than Nigeria.

Khaleepha5681:
is it not true that India is better than Nigeria at all including South?

Yup, India's poorest states like Bihar are well above Nigeria as well as African average in terms of HDI.

Khaleepha5681:
Is it not true that capitalism widens gap between poor and rich,masses and elites?

Capitalism allows competent and capable people of becoming rich which are keen on doing work to get rich than unambitious normal people. They increase national wealth and when they get rich, they increase payment to their employees with which ends up making society rich in gross.
Socialism is result of envy of few idiots and keeps all people "equally poor". US has poor people but its "poor" are closer to upper middle class of Nigeria.

Khaleepha5681:
Is it not true that capitalism causes crimes?

No, it isn't.

Annabella11:
In contrast, India, the United States and other countries have a huge number of infections, and there are many hospital patients. Most people who are not serious can only be isolated and observed at home. It’s really incomprehensible that some people don’t pay attention to COVID-19. At present, the situation of COVID-19 has been suspended, but we can’t relax our vigilance until COVID-19 has completely disappeared.

United States and India have done respectively 100 million and 70 million tests respectively which is highest in world. US still is moving ahead to test 50% of its population while India wants to cross 20% to catch up developed countries.

Most of small countries have stopped or reduced testing when infection rate fell. Given that Nigeria's testing rate was already less than 10% of India, there is no comparison even if Nigeria got low number of cases.