&gt; A good piece of writing - quite critical about the country, but also comes from a place of affection for the country.<p>I&#x27;m not sure where you&#x27;re reading &quot;affection&quot; from. Rogers has been predicting and even actively cheerleading India&#x27;s financial decline consistently for literally two decades. He even closes the article with a claim that is laughably ignorant[0] of historical facts, and just reeks of colonial apologism.<p>&gt; India really is not a rational country. The English mushed India together in the panic of independence in 1947, but little heed was given to ethnic, religious, linguistic, historic, national, or geographic considerations which is one reason India has had problems with every one of its neighbors since. India as we know it will not survive another 30 or 40 years. This of course does not have to end in disaster, but it probably will given the chauvinism of its government and the way history has always worked.<p>The reason that India has been at war is because the world&#x27;s then-largest superpower[1] (the British) <i>openly</i> declared that they wanted to start a civil war in India, and then actively funded terrorist[2] groups to ensure that it happened.<p>There are people in the US who have affection for India. Rogers is not one of them.<p>[0] No, I don&#x27;t think that Rogers is actually ignorant of history; I&#x27;m saying he chooses to ignore history.<p>[1] India&#x27;s fight for independence was just around the time that the US took over that epithet from the British<p>[2] That word didn&#x27;t exist then, but that&#x27;s absolutely what we would call them today