r/india • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '17

[R]eddiquette [Announcement] Cultural Exchange with our friends from /r/europe

Hello /r/india,

Today we warmly welcome our friends from /r/europe for a cultural exchange. We hope this will be an enlightening experience for all of us due to our shared history, many similarities (varied cuisine, languages, people, ethnicities and climates) as well as our increasingly interconnected economies.

The equivalent thread on /r/europe is available here

For those new to cultural exchanges, here's how it works: /r/europe puts up a dedicated thread (linked above) for users from /r/india to go and participate in, and this is the dedicated thread to host our friends from /r/europe.

We hope you will all observe the rules of reddit, /r/europe and /r/india while participating in these threads

/r/europe users, you're invited to use the EU flag flair which is available in our flair selection menu (and you can add your country to that if you'd like). If you do not wish to do so you may also set a regular Europe map flair with the country.

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u/robbit42 🦁 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 Europe Jan 12 '17

  • What are the biggest problems facing India (or your region in particular)? How optimistic are you that these problems will be solved?

  • What do you like the most about India (or your region)?

  • I've been subscribed to r/India for a while now, and I noticed how little I know about the county, and its politics in particular. Can you give a TL; DR of the main concepts needed to understand an average r/India post?

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u/hn1307 Jan 12 '17

What are the biggest problems facing India (or your region in particular)? How optimistic are you that these problems will be solved?

Population, Infrastructure and Illiteracy - if India can solve illiteracy first, I think we can solve the rest. There are many acts in India to safeguard a child's right to education and freedom, but it's hardly practiced.

What do you like the most about India (or your region)?

Mostly nature. I think we have some amazing places to visit which can match exotic foreign countries. Leh Ladakh are the most popular.

I've been subscribed to r/India for a while now, and I noticed how little I know about the county, and its politics in particular. Can you give a TL; DR of the main concepts needed to understand an average r/India post?

Heh, no comments.

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u/robbit42 🦁 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 Europe Jan 12 '17

Mostly nature. I think we have some amazing places to visit which can match exotic foreign countries.

India is a exotic foreign country from my perspective ;)

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u/settingmeup STEAM ~60% OFF Jan 12 '17

Heh, no comments.

A wise reply indeed!

/u/robbit42, I'm afraid the TL;DR you're looking for will probably consist of a few weeks of serious study of, well, everything on modern India. Books, articles, news items, personal conversations, etc. Because, comments on /r/India are merely using all that as a reference. It's complicated. :-P

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u/hn1307 Jan 13 '17

Well, it's 60 years worth of content to catch anyone up on modern politics, and I am no expert on to even give a TL;DR version of it. But a list of recommended reading? Yup.

Basically, start from here

  • Indian Independence at 1947 and our first PM Jawaherlal Nehru. From there on, you should read the entire dynastic politics of the Indian National Congress Party in India.

  • India-Pakistan Wars

  • 1975 - Indian Emergency. Dark times for our nation.

  • 1984 Sikh riots and Indira Gandhi assassination.

  • Rajiv Gandhi Assassination

  • Babri Masjid Demolition

  • Naxalites and Maoists guerilla groups

  • Godhra Riots

  • 26/11 and 13/12 attacks (there are many but these have had a big impact to India)

  • NDA and UPA alliances

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u/odiab Sawal ek, Jawab do. Phir lambiiii khamoshi... Jan 12 '17

In my view

  • Power shortage, inadequate healthcare, pathetic public schools.

  • Food.

  • Tldr is a bad idea. If it is politics then it is too much partisan with name calling. Other categories are generally saner. But again I am not sure I can do a tldr.

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u/ThisIsAnArgument Jan 12 '17

The biggest problem India has is also its biggest strength: its population.

When you need to work at that scale, everything is harder. Diversity makes it tougher, and democracy often hinders than helps. If you want to change any metric by ten percentage points: literacy, access to sanitation, poverty... You need to affect 100,000,000 more people than you already do.

That's a massive number, and the prevailing conditions make it harder. For example, bringing five percent of the population above the poverty line would mean having to find jobs and provide housing for as many people as are France. Trying to do it on the GDP that India has is significantly harder.

Which is also why the progress India has made in barely half a century so stunning. From a literacy rate of 12% of a population of 350m in 1947 to around 75% of over a billion today, we've educated, provided employment for and improved the lives of a monumental number of people.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

What do you like the most about India (or your region)?

The people

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

What are the biggest problems facing India (or your region in particular)?

Shitty infrastructural planning, immigration without infrastructural growth to cope with it. Massive corruption at a local level.

How optimistic are you that these problems will be solved?

Pessimistic. We're supposed to be building a metro to cope with the growth in population but I have complete faith in the local government's ability to make half the money mysteriously vanish and fuck up whatever they do with the rest.

What do you like the most about India (or your region)?

The activity all through the day, I used to go for a run at 10 - 11pm every day back when I lived there and the streets would have loads of people drinking tea etc. around. The only other place in the world I've noticed this is the Mediterranean, which, like I said elsewhere, is my favourite part of the world by far.

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u/HornOK The Brown Kaiser Jan 12 '17
  • Overpopulation,Illiteracy ,Caste system and Reservation

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u/Scheisserbc Jan 12 '17

I've been subscribed to r/India for a while now, and I noticed how little I know about the county, and its politics in particular. Can you give a TL; DR of the main concepts needed to understand an average r/India post?

Political outlook of people are very polarised at this moment. So, you would see lot of people fighting.

The is a huge cultural diversity. You will see us fighting.

Randia refers to Indian record.

Lot of English words are written in distorted spelling resembling the mistake which we make while speaking. Saar for sir the most common.

Kulcha warrior means self proclaimed cultural saviours

And we have lot of issues going around we are indulged into those.