Is India really a great country?

印度真的是一个伟大的国家吗？

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Ambarish, lives in India

India is not a great country, its just an average country. What made me say this statement? I have heard enough and everday hear boasting messages about India.

1. They say India has 3rd largest standing army. What so special in that for a 120 crore people's country?
2. They say India is world's largest de ocracy. Whats big deal about that, when so called elected members never actually represent common people.
3. What India does is just an average thing. Average in sports, art, science, technology, IT etc. Indians are average in everything and average person cannot achieve medal in Olympics. An average person cannot achieve Nobel prize. Average films cant achieve Oscar...
4. They say India has Ayurveda. I say India had Ayurveda. There is nothing like mediocrity in Ayurveda. What we see today are average ayurvedic practitioners. Sometimes their medicines work sometimes not. This is not Ayurveda.
5. They say India has Yoga. What we see are the western style gyms. India had the yoga.
6. They say India has the family system world is looking for. But India has most repressed children. Indian children excel in non indian society. They are mediocre in India.

ASSUMING INDIA TO BE GREAT COUNTRY IS KILLING ITS GROWTH TO GREATNESS.

India was great but today's India is just an average country. If we accept it, we may become better otherwise we will kill our own way towards perfection.

印度不是伟大的国家，只是个普通国家。我怎么会说这种话？我已经听够了，每天都能听到吹捧印度的话。

1.他们说印度有第三大常备军。对于一个拥有1.2亿人口的国家来说，这很正常。

2.他们说印度是世界上最大的民*国家。这有什么了不起呢，所谓的民选议员实际上并没有代表普通民众。

3.印度的表现都很普通。在体育、艺术、科学、技术、IT等方面都普普通通。印度人在任何事情上都很平庸，普通人不可能在奥运会上获得奖牌。普通人不可能获得诺贝尔奖。普通电影无法获得奥斯卡奖…

4.他们说印度有阿育吠陀。我说印度确实有阿育吠陀。阿育吠陀很优秀。我们今天看到的是普通的阿育吠陀从业者。他们的药有时有效，有时无效。这不叫阿育吠陀。

5.他们说印度有瑜伽。我们看到的是西式健身房。印度以前是有瑜伽。

6.他们说，印度拥有全世界都向往的家庭制。但印度的儿童最为压抑。印度儿童在非印度社会中表现优异，但在印度却表现平平。

意淫印度是一个伟大的国家，会扼杀它的发展。

印度曾经是伟大的，但今天的印度只是一个普通的国家。如果我们接受这一点，我们可能会变得更好，否则我们会自绝后路。

Sundar

India was a great country. Travelling back in time we could see India as one of the most developed countries in the world. The way we built up civilizations, food, science, technology, medicine, fitness, education, art was something the Europeans and the Americans never dreamt of.

Now if we are gonna put on a question “From where did the downfall start?”

When British invaded.

You might think, it was only because they invaded, we are developed. Really? Better take a closer look. was never invaded by the British. Every European country feared to conquer the mighty kingdom of . The only Emperor cum Commander who succeeded in conquering and almost the whole of Europe was Genghis Khan, The Mongolian Monster. is more developed than India. So saying India wouldn't have developed if not for British is complete bullshit. They took away everhthing from us. Robbed us from perfect textile materials, spices, jewels, messed up our forests. Not exaggeraring but in their 200 year rule, they robbed us of more than a trillion dollars. They capitalized on the Indians not being united. Every ruler just wanted to take care of their region and not India as a whole. If we were united at that time, we could've sent those English slothfaced poopheads back to England by throwing stones at them. This is one of the major points as to why India fell

印度曾经是一个伟大的国家。如果我们回到过去，可以发现印度是世界上最发达的国家之一。我们建立文明、食品、科学、技术、医学、健身、教育和艺术的方式是欧洲人和美国人不曾想过的。

现在我们要问一个问题"从合适开始衰败的? "

从英国开始入侵印度的时候。

你可能会想，正是因为他们的入侵，我们才得以发展。真的吗？最好仔细看看。从来没有被英国侵略过。每个欧洲国家都害怕征服强大的。唯一成功征服和几乎整个欧洲的皇帝和指挥官是成吉思汗，蒙古魔头。比印度更发达。所以说，如果没有英国，印度就不会发展，完全是一派胡言。他们夺走了我们的一切。掠夺了我们的纺织材料，香料，珠宝，破坏了我们的森林。毫不夸张地说，在他们200年的统治中，他们抢走了我们1万多亿美元。他们利用印度人的不团结。每个统治者只想着自己的领地，没有全局观。如果我们当时团结起来，可以把那些英国懒汉们赶回英国。这是印度衰落的主要原因之一。

Srinu Poluparthy, Article Assistant at Lodha & Co. (2014-present)

Yes It is a great Country.

1.About the People:

Greed has perished into the people in the world except for the people in India. Indian people have the desires for the needs not the greed.Desire is different from Greed. Development of ourselves is a desire but Development of ourselves only is a greed. Adolph Hitler said “Greed has perished into the people minds. The power which was taken from the people should be given back” which is not applicable to India as Indians are not greedy and always power lies with the people only. Proof of my putting this is “India does not even tried to conquer any lands other than Hindustan/Indus land”

2.Hel Hand:

We are hel hands to every person irrespective of the gender and the country to which the person belongs. We tried to help the British or Portuguese or others at the initial stages to do business in India and help the people in respective countries. As every other countries having the habit of cheating and greed of conquering the world, we have been ruled by them. Still Indians allowed them to mobilise the natural resources to their respective countries. British has become richer by looting the India’s natural resources.

是的，这是一个伟大的国家。

1.印度人:

除了印度人以外，世界上的人都已贪婪成性。印度人有需求的欲望，但没有贪欲。欲望不同于贪婪。让自己进步是一种欲望，而只让自己进步就是一种贪婪。阿道夫·希特勒说过:“人们已经贪婪成性了。从人民手中夺走的权力应该归还给人民”，这对印度是不适用的，因为印度人并不贪婪，权力永远只属于人民。我说的证据是"印度甚至没有试图征服除印度斯坦/印度河以外的任何土地"。

2.热于助人:

我们向每一个人伸出援助之手，不论性别和国别。在最初阶段，我们努力帮助英国人、葡萄牙人或其他国家的人在印度做生意，帮助他们国家的人民。这些国家都有欺骗和征服世界的恶习，我们被他们统治。可印度人还是同意他们将自然资源运送到他们的国家。英国通过掠夺印度的自然资源变得更加富有。

译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/48768.html 译者：Joyceliu

3.Business:

Lot of Indian companies are also contributing major role in the world. Looting the people of the world with inflated prices and becoming richer and then giving all the wealth to people as philanthropist is not the case of Indian Business. Indian business is value based and stick on to core values of Dharma.

4.Technology:

Coming to the technology, we are not lagging behind than any other country. Recently, we launched 104 satellites with single rocket, which is revolutionary achievement in the Rocket science technology. We do have the technology of having the ballistic missiles and atomic energy. And, moreover take success of any biggest tech company, Indians are part of it. It is not that Indians are lagging behind. Still other countries are using our knowledge and technology to grow themselves. Example, Rocket technology is being copied from Indian Brahman scientist in the era of Tippu Sultan.

5.Poverty:

Many of the reports says Majority population in India are under the poverty line. Yes, they are under the poverty line, because the foreign conquerors have looted India’s natural resources with which India might have been top country in the world with Core values. Poverty is measured with food facilities and sanitation facilities available to the people. But Indians are not under the poverty, as they are even happy with 2 meals a day by feeding others/Other nations.

3.商业：

许多印度公司也在世界上发挥着重要作用。以虚高的价格掠夺全世界的人民，然后变得越来越富有，然后化身慈善家把所有的财富捐赠给人们，印度商人不会这么做。印度的商业是基于价值的，并坚持佛法的核心价值。

4.科技：

说到科技，我们并不比其他任何国家落后。最近，我们用一枚火箭同时发射了104颗卫星，这是火箭科学技术的革命性成就。我们拥有弹道导弹和原子能技术。此外，以任何一家大型科技公司的成功为例，都能看到印度人的身影。这并不是说印度人落后了。还有一些国家利用我们的知识和技术来发展自己。例如，火箭技术就是从印度婆罗门科学家Tippu Sultan时代学习而来的。

5.贫困:

许多报告说，大多数印度人生活在贫困线以下。是的，他们生活在贫困线以下，因为外国侵略者掠夺了印度的自然资源，而印度本来可能是拥有核心价值观的世界头号国家。衡量贫困的标准是向人民提供的食品设施和卫生设施。但是印度人并不贫穷，因为他们满足于每天两顿饭，因为他们可以给其他国家提供食物。

6.Politics:

Indian politics have really been started and continued till 20th century with ethical and core values. Later, Western greed and art of cheating has entered few politicians who made the entire India to be ashamed off and who makes India downfall.

7.Illiteracy:

I don’t consider, India do have the 33% of Illiteracy. Illiteracy should not measured by checking the knowledge of reading and writing skills of English language. Previously, Indians don’t need English, since they are having the core knowledge of values, ethics and others in their local languages. Do we need to consider that as illiteracy, if Indians having the core Ethical knowledge, philosophy and society rather than writing and speaking skills in English.

8.Reservation Policy:

Reservation policy is worst in India. Although, it has been started with a good intent for the limited period, it made the long term impact of making the Lazy Indians and habituated to free food.

9.Indian Judiciary System:

Indian judiciary runs with the core principle of Dharma, “ Many criminals can be escaped, but even one innocent should not be punished” while in the other countries, it is not the case to follow. If you are said that you have done a mistake, you will be hardly punished even if sometimes you are innocent. Following the aforesaid principle may lag in the Indian judiciary system, but will fetch the freedom of the innocent people. Not following this, all the innocent will be punished, and country will flourish with the criminals where whole universe will be under the trouble.

6.政治:

印度政治从20世纪开始，一直延续到现在，其核心价值观是伦理道德。后来，西方的贪婪和欺骗玷污了少数让整个印度感到羞耻和让印度衰落的政治家。

7.文盲:

我不认为，印度有33%的文盲。文盲不应该通过英语读写能力的测试来衡量。以前，印度人不需要英语，因为他们用当地语言掌握了价值观、伦理道德等核心知识。如果印度人拥有核心的伦理知识、哲学和社会常识，而非英语写作和口语技能，我们是否还要将其视为文盲？

8.预留制:

印度的预留制是最糟糕的。虽然在特定时期，它的出发点是好的，但它产生了长期的影响，使懒惰的印度人习惯了伸手索要免费的食物。

9.印度司法系统:

印度司法的核心原则是是佛法，“宁可错放一千，不可错杀一个”，但其他国家并不是这样的。有人说你犯了错，即使有时你是无心之过，你也几乎不会受到惩罚。遵循上述原则可能会令印度司法体系滞后，但会为无辜的人民带来自由。如果不这样做，所有的无辜者都将受到惩罚，整个世界都将陷入麻烦，国家将与罪犯一起繁荣昌盛。

10.Indian Army:

Indian Army has started with a good intent of getting the freedom for our country not to invade or conquer other countries. Flaws in the Indian Armed forces are immaterial and irrelevant, while our intention is not to invade or conquer other nations. Still Indian forces never do the strikes.

11.Education system:

Indian Education is more value based not diversified to value less, greedy and cheating quality etc. Education is about the behaviour in the society not limited to the statistics and marks. Indian education includes Value based education along with great quality “Samskar”, while the abroad education will stick on to solving the bookish formulae and thesis. Indians do can solve the formulae and thesis, like Srinivasa Ramanujan and other great person does. And, in addition they does with core values. India is the origin of great knowledge. Who can question the Indian Value based education and results of it, rather abroad greedy and bookish knowledge without “samskar” in it.

12.Black money:

To the full extent, Few Indians do have the lot of black money which they are kee at foreign banks. That few people, to whom the greed has already been conquered them makes the India fall and others to rise.

If we can talk about the History or Culture, it will be endless as India has such a great history and culture we developed and groomed till date.

Whether India is great or not should not be concluded with the statistics without being values in it. Achievement of statistics through greediness and by looting the other countries will not be called as Development or “Great country”

Great country will be called by their peoples attitude, culture, habits, values and Dharma’s not by achieving the statistics through greediness and by looting the other people/countries.

10.印度军队:

印度军队一直以来都希望让我们的国家无需侵略或征服其他国家就能获得自由。印度军队的缺点是无关紧要的，我们的目的不是侵略或征服其他国家。但是印度军队从来不会发动攻击。

11.教育系统:

印度的教育更多的是基于价值，而不是多样化。教育应该关乎社会行为，而不仅仅是统计和分数。印度的教育包括以价值为基础的教育，而国外的教育坚持解决书呆子式的公式和论文。印度人确实可以解决这些公式和命题，就像Srinivasa Ramanujan和其他伟人一样。除此之外，他们还有核心价值观。印度是伟大知识的发源地。谁能质疑印度以价值为基础的教育及其成果？

12.黑钱:

很少有印度人拥有大量存在外国银行的黑钱。少数被贪欲征服的人，让印度衰落，让其他国家崛起。

如果我们能谈论历史、文化，那永远也说不完，因为从古至今，印度拥有非常伟大的历史和文化。

印度是否伟大不应该用统计数据来衡量。通过贪婪和掠夺而取得的统计数字不能称之为发达或“伟大的国家”

伟大的国家应该关乎人民的态度、文化、习惯、价值观和佛法，而不是通过贪婪和掠夺其他人民/国家来获得统计数据。

Pavan Thakur, lived in India

1.INDIA has launched 100 of satellites in one rocket.Which is a world record?

2.INDIA is 4th largest military power. Which never attacks any country first.

3.INDIA has 22 languages whereas European union have 24. india is like a European Union the UK and became 5th largest economy.

4.INDIA has more than5000 Years Of History.

5.When the west was hunting for food.we created worlds advanced town Mohenjo-Daro.we wrote Vedas whereas the west was wandering without clothes.

6.IT is only KING NANDA who forced ALEXANDER the great to go back without any war.

7.INDIA gave Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism ,sikhism to the world.

8.SUSHRUTA did first plastic surgery in the 6th century BC.

9.INDIA gave yoga to the world.Aryabhatta told in480A.D.that earth rounds the sun.

10.we created most advance clock known as Konark temple.

11.we built the Khajuraho temple on the basis of Kamasutra.which is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the world.

12.INDIANS never tried to kill Buddha and Mahavir because they thought opposite to Hinduism but Europian did this (hang him on the cross) with Jesus Christ.

1.印度用一枚火箭发射了100颗卫星。之前有这个世界纪录吗？

2.印度是世界第四大军事强国。它从不率先攻击任何国家。

3.印度有22种语言，而欧盟有24种。印度就像英国所在的欧盟，已成为第五大经济体。

4.印度有5000多年的历史。

5.当西方人还在以打猎为生时，我们就建造了世界先进的城镇摩亨佐-达罗。我们创作了《吠陀》，当时西方人还光着身子居无定所。

6.全世界只有南达国王迫使亚历山大大帝不战而归。

7.印度给世界带来了印度教、佛教和耆那教、锡克教。

8.公元前6世纪，苏苏塔做了第一次整形手术。

9.印度把瑜伽传播到全世界。阿雅巴塔在公元480年就称地球绕着太阳转。

10.我们创造了最先进的时钟，称为Konark庙。

11.我们根据《爱经》建造了卡久拉霍庙宇。这是世界上参观人数最多的历史古迹之一。

12.印度人从来没有因为佛陀和马哈韦尔的教义跟印度教不同而试图杀死他们，但欧洲人却把他和耶稣基督一起挂在十字架上。

13.The INDIAN election commission is one of the most trusted election body.Indian election commission participated in so many countries on behalf of UN.

14.Indians have elected 3 Muslims president which is more than any European country.

15.I agree, there are some problems in India but we are going ahead.

16.India is going to be world's largest solar energy producer.

17.IN World Happiness Index India Is InTop 122

18.INDIA is going to run worlds largest healthcare Programme( pm just declared).

13.印度选举委员会是最受信任的选举机构之一。印度选举委员会代表联合国参加了许多国家的选举。

14.印度选出的msl总统比任何欧洲国家都多。

15.我同意，印度确实存在一些问题，但我们正在前进。

16.印度将成为世界上最大的太阳能生产国。

17.在世界幸福指数排名中，印度排在122位

18.印度将实施世界上规模最大的医疗保健计划。

Subhashish Borah, lives in India

It doesn't matter , in an age of techno-scientific universalism and interdependence , globalization , and intercultural fusion , such 'nationalistic' romanticism is a great hindrance for the true psycho-spiritual potential of all humanity to grow and express. All historical political catastrophes had taken birth in this very hopeless imagination of national greatness. Gone are the days of such crap. All humanity is great , all past cultures and civilizations of the whole world were great.

这不重要，在这个科技普遍主义和相互依存、全球化和跨文化融合的时代，这种“民族主义”的浪漫主义是全人类真正的精神潜能成长和表达的巨大障碍。所有历史上的政治灾难都是在这种对国家伟大的无望想象中产生的。这种糟糕的日子一去不复返了。全人类都是伟大的，全世界过去所有的文化和文明都是伟大的。

Deyasini Dasgupta, Block Chief(Ikeda Kayokai) at Soka Gakkai International (2012-present)

India is a land of unity in diversity. Different states have different attire, food habits , festivals, culture and language. India is a de ocratic country. You will find in India people from every religion exst. So as a result india have different language, attire and festivals throughout the year. You cannot visit whole of India in one trip. Along with rich heritage and culture, landscape is very beautiful starting from sea, beaches, plain land, valleys, plateaus, hills mountain. Seasons are pleasant. And after all we Indians are all United .

印度是一个多元一体的国家。不同的邦有不同的服装、饮食习惯、节日、文化和语言。印度是一个民*国家。你会发现印度有各种宗教的信众。因此，印度全年有不同的语言、服装和节日。你不可能一次游览整个印度。伴随着丰富的遗产和文化，风景是非常美丽的开始，从大海，海滩，平原，山谷，高原，山区。季节是愉快的。毕竟我们印度人是团结的。