&gt;  India just got free from a colonial power which had sneaked in with trade as a excuse and then ruined pretty much everything for the next 3 centuries. &lt;<p>It&#x27;s funny though West Germany, which was completely ruined by WW2 emerged as a lot more prosperous country than what India did for the first 40 years. Do you have any idea how badly Germany was bombed.<p>If you say things like &quot;But Germany is an exception because X&quot;, then think why East Germany couldn&#x27;t be as rich. East Germany was about as poor as West Germany after WW2.<p>Similarly, Korean split was another one of those examples. You may say that economics doesn&#x27;t matter, but the fact is that it does. 1990s onwards we have made our lives so much better, and the shit didn&#x27;t have to be so bad for our forefathers and parents.<p>All Indians do is give excuses for why India was poor, but nearly all their excuses can be best represented by the biggest excuse of them all &#x27;Hindu rate of growth&#x27;.