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Originally Posted by physicsmonk
Zraver are you sure about this?i mean we have huge swathes of poverty and illetracy.Add to it strained relationships between two major communities. Add to it an indecisive polity.we have a long long way to go to even achieve developed nation criteria leave alone superpowerdom.This rhetoric of superpowerdom is all fine as long as it leads to greater aspiration and consequent economic growth.Beyond that i really dont see any merit in calling india superpower at the moment.indias time may come in future.and no i am no pinko leftist type to be this pessimistic.
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I said India is an emerging Super Power. No nation is perfect, the US is falling apart to the tune of 250 billion a yea rin needed repairs in order to catch up the Eisenhower Interstate System and Dams to current specs and we have a large percentage of our population who is functionally illiterate in our economic setting.
The 2001 American Management Association Survey on Workplace Testing found the following:
* 34.1% of applicants tested by respondent firms lacked the basic skills necessary to perform the jobs they sought in 2000
China has 40% of all new cancer cases, Russia's population is shrinking and MDR TB is rampant in thier prison systems etc. A nations power is not weighed on the aggregate of the down indicators, but of the up indicators.