India does not have great leaders to lift it up, only talkers and braggers that have nothing to their credits

Bigger population for a richer but smaller country like Germany or Japan might sound more realistic for dividend reaping. Having said that, both Germany and Japan are now sliding down the economic ladder too, so it is difficult to be generalizing. Circumstances can change.

For a poor country like India, it is a big liability to say the least, by having a large expanding population. India has not solved its poverty problem by any stretch of the imagination, so adding more people will test its employment and job creation agenda. Jobs, and I mean good paying jobs must be created in order to lift people out of poverty. If not, children born into poverty will never rise beyond the situation of their parents. This is a chicken and egg problem for India, and I think one solution is keeping the population increase as low as possible. But who am I to say such things when the experts have different views?

India does have great thinkers in the ancient past, and recent past as well, but most have either migrated and what is left are bottom crawlers from inside the barrel that has led India into what it is today. Just look at the state of its ministers, from top to bottom, that are hardly worthy of mention.

I have been thinking about how India could produce such profound philosophers like Siddhartha Gautama (the spiritual teacher who later became Shakyamuni Buddha) that Indians themselves refused to acknowledge for all his brilliance. It was left to the Chinese, Japanese and South-East Asians to realize the brilliance of the Buddha's teaching.

Even Albert Eistein thinks that Buddhism is the only scientific 'religion' in the world, and its teachings stand up to dissection and scrutiny that other religions failed to do so. In actual fact. With due respect to Einstein, Buddhism is not a religion in the true sense, with no God, but a philosophy.


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