Man, it&#x27;s unfortunate that you have a plethora of answers with t=15 years.<p>India&#x27;s improved tons.<p>I&#x27;m not as grey bearded as I should be, I remember the 1980s.<p>India has come a damn long way.<p>Politics has improved pretty significantly. &quot;Booth capture&quot; and &quot;license raj&quot; we&#x27;re actual things, not the bogey men that most people blithely quote.<p>Vyapam is scary to <i>me</i> because it&#x27;s a throw back to those times.<p>We&#x27;ve gone through three <i>major</i> insurgencies, and multiple terror organizations which had destabilized entire states.<p>What we seem to really have a glut of now is a lot of literate people, but with very little education. (Ie - ability to apply their knowledge in new and novel ways to new and novel situations + willingness to learn more in depth)<p>The economy has shifted dramatically since the 90s. I&#x27;ve seen a period where there was a wait for phone lines (and 7 digit numbers), to a period where we have more mobiles than people.<p>India is a marvelously and infuriatingly complex country, the fact that it hasn&#x27;t imploded itself is step 1.