I really love India. I have been there a few times over the years, and yes, there is desperate grinding poverty, but the people seem to me to live on regardless of whatever happens in the world. There is a spirituality about the place that I did not find in China, which struck me as grossly materialistic, like atheistic Australia. Let’s not even talk about the US. But, I recently read this article cited below written by an Indian about the state of the Indian elections, and had some of my optimism shattered, as leading Indian journalist Jayant Bhandari is saying that Indian politics is even more corrupt than the West, as hard as it is to believe, and that India is falling away into chaos.
This is a lengthy piece, but one of the most honest assessments of a person’s nation that I have ever read. Mr Bhandari debunks the media hype about India as an emerging super power, and puts the case that the place is essentially falling apart with decay everywhere, just like the West, with the same cancerous forces of destruction operating there. Hopefully, though, after the Great Collapse, India will regain its spiritual greatness and live on as it has for millennia. Or, like everything else, it will just be darkness and decline, which may be more likely. It is tragic when a great people fall, just as we in the West have fallen.
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-decline-of-india/
