*Uh, maybe. If India can overcome the "armed unrest from the Maoist Naxalite movement, extreme Hindu religious chauvinism, the degraded quality of leadership, a trivializing media, over-consumption of resources and incoherent policy caused by political coalitions."
*Piece o' saffron cake! Jaya he, India Shining! Sky's the limit!
http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/publications/reports/SR010.aspx
"To follow the Naxalites is to plunge India into decades of civil war; to follow the Hindu right to persecute and demonise large numbers of one’s own countrymen; to follow the market fundamentalists to intensify the divisions between the consuming and the surviving classes (and to destroy the global environment in the process). Rather than nurture or act upon these Utopian fantasies, the Indian patriot must focus instead on the tasks of gradual and piecemeal reform. We need to repair, one by one, the institutions that have safeguarded our unity amidst diversity, and to forge, also one by one, the new institutions that can help us meet the fresh challenges of the twenty-first century. It will be hard, patient, slow work – that is to say, the only kind of work that is ever worth it."
(((India is already a superpower compared to everybody in the immediate neighborhood. India is surrounded by countries that should have been more or less okay, but have ended up with all of India's basic problems and more so. If you're from Sri Lanka, the Maldives or Bangladesh you've already experienced India as a major-league power, and that's not always pretty.)))
