I agree.<p>As a bangladeshi I have watched privatization and IMF destroy my own country.<p>Its rich that someone who took a vacation in India somehow figured out all its problems and knows all its solutions.<p>Strong labour laws in India prevented Indian workers from being exploited by foreigners - Unlike in my own country where my people are slaves to american consumer demands via walmart.<p>India is exactly what you end up when you institute democratic rule over a real nation.<p>The idea of self-reliance is what allowed Indians to develop their own space mission, nuclear power, submarines and unique cryogenic rockets that even the american cannot get their hands on. And now the british use our rockets.<p>I went to a rural village in west bengal where they got their first light bulb. What is cool about it is not that its basic electricity but because it was powered using a nuclear plant.<p>Its embarrassing that in the UK the electricity is generated mostly by coal. Who is the backward nation again ?<p>Indians are not interested in your fancy iphones. They have no purpose when you think about it. India is completely happy to wait for technology to catch up rather than destroy and pillage their environment and water.<p>Unlike the americans the indians didn&#x27;t have the luxury to rape and pillage an entire continent and another one. Resources are scares - water, food, land.<p>India is now developing thorium and is building power plants in the south. Sounds like they are doing perfectly fine. Slow,steady and sustainable progress.