Comment on How India’s power crisis is self-made & why we could face another crunch during the monsoon
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years agoAs you know, I post about India a lot. I am fascinated with the place and also find that their local English language news coverage is just terrific, so I am drawn to it. The Print is a great resource.
How often do you go to India? Do you speak any Indian language or anything? I am aware that you are full or partly Indian descent.
One of my best dissident right buds is of Indian descent as well.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I am fully of Indian descent, but my parents moved when I was young and I grew up as a teenager in Europe. English is the national language, because India was a british colony for 200 years, just like the US. But in practice, the spoken English is annoyingly bad. Written English is quite excellent in media.
The Indians have a envious supply of natural resources - 3/4 coastlines, 40% free hydro power, a large english speaking population with median age in 20s, world's biggest mountains protecting them from China. If India developed 50% wind + solar, like the UK did, they would be fully renewable, with hydro as the base load, negating all needs for battery storage. They have a shitload of minerals, just like China and Russia. Just not enough oil, but I feel that's partly because they have been held back by politics and activists.
They have diverse military training environments - desert in the west, Himalayas in the north, ocean all around, flat plains as well as rainforests. Its why the US and other countries like to hold joint trainings with India, because they can get a lot of use from the geography.
So why with all these gifts, is India a giant shithole ? Centralized power. Huge, incompetent, inefficient, corrupt buereacracy kills potential. Indians would have been far more prosperous if the country was split into a hundred smaller nations that would be more accountable to their people.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Do you think change is on the way?
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
No. They are in a semi-stable situation like the US. With strong political and regional divides. Its not so bad, that there will be a revolution. But they are grossly underperforming to what they could achieve. Some regions like the south, do spectacularly well though. High per capita $ and literacy.
By ease of business rankings, India is one of the worst countries globally to do business in, due to red tape. I would not set up shop there.
All their success is despite their bad governance. Its not going to change
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Very cool information, thanks
Usually whenever the elites have a lot of power, the whole system is set up to throttle the competition. Capitalism just won't exist.