What's ahead of South Asia?

[roy]

I worry India will become not habitable land

india Bangladesh are already not habitable and as an indian myself life feels like i am living in a cage of animals without any air

 

[SecularNationalist]

funniest part is pretending that putting India in the same sentence as Pakistan & Bangladesh somehow makes the comparison intellectually meaningful. Three neighboring countries ≠ three identical development trajectories lol.

Bro India only have a population and big geographical area advantage. In essence it's just another third world country.
You indians really need to wake up and smell some coffee.
The type of ideology,media and politics ruling over you since 2013 has made the IQ level of all indians lower than room temperature.

 

[SecularNationalist]

A populace that values cow life more than a human or people who want to lynch a person because random Arabic text was written on their attire .. want to be, like to be, and will always be subdued by morally corrupt and incompetent individuals and hence live like in conditions as that of sewer rats and behave like animal herd. Their tragedy is they want to protect their "Gods" .. exposure, openness, acceptance and free thinking is an alien concept in these societies and every free thinker will always end up being killed or exiled.

They do not teach and school their children for sake of learning, they spend and worry about securing a good job .. that is the biggest aim of all in these societies. Slave insecure mentality and tunnel vision cannot bring progress.



They do not need to be modern in Western ways but they surely do need to get out of their insecure slave mentality first. May be a catastrophic war is the only option left to break this cycle.

In my opinion it's gonna take decades to implement education, population and civic sense in the people of subcontinent.
Here indians need civic sense education more than anyone else on planet.

 

[Hazard]

"Will India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ever truly become advanced, developed nations, or are they trapped in permanent stagnation? Despite boasting booming tech sectors and massive economic potential, all three countries remain heavily weighed down by deep-rooted issues like corruption, weak infrastructure, political instability, and poverty. Do you think these structural hurdles and regional rivalries will permanently stunt South Asia's growth, or can these nations actually transition into fully modern societies ever?

I remember a geography lesson back in secondary school 20 odd years ago where my teacher referred to South Asian countries as 'Developing' nations - 20 years on, and most would agree that they're still 'developing'.

I don't see any significant improvements in short to medium term. Western world has now moved on to Artificial Intelligence, and we're yet to have a fully functioning sewerage system.

 

[Sam6536]

I remember a geography lesson back in secondary school 20 odd years ago where my teacher referred to South Asian countries as 'Developing' nations - 20 years on, and most would agree that they're still 'developing'.

I don't see any significant improvements in short to medium term. Western world has now moved on to Artificial Intelligence, and we're yet to have a fully functioning sewerage system.

Developing to developed bracket is a big one. China is still regarded as a developing nation.

Most of the world is an open market economy, it is a western oriented market model forced by the USA after WW2. Either you find a place in that supply chain or be self sufficient (latter is almost not possible for most nations, you'll have to import something or the other)

What would work for South Asia is socialism mixed with capitalism. Currently it's mostly capitalism, development parameters are for the affluent living in gated communities. I can say that India has experimented with socialism and nationalisation during the 1967s-1980s, while it does work to an extent but again you'll lose the efficiency + FDI of a free market economy.

Anyways it's not that nothing improved in the past decades, Qualify of life and healthcare has seen considerable improvements.

 

[Pakistani Dragon]

"Will India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ever truly become advanced, developed nations, or are they trapped in permanent stagnation? ...

Yes. I believe AI is ushering in a new era for the developing world—one where countries could potentially compress decades of technological and economic development into a remarkably short period of time.

That's my opinion, based on how rapidly AI and other technologies are advancing and spreading around the world.

I'm not alone in thinking this. According to the World Bank, AI is offering developing countries the possibility of accessing expertise “on a very compressed timetable,” and it says AI could potentially do in a decade what might otherwise take a century.

 

[peagle]

"Will India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ever truly become advanced, developed nations, or are they trapped in permanent stagnation? Despite boasting booming tech sectors and massive economic potential, all three countries remain heavily weighed down by deep-rooted issues like corruption, weak infrastructure, political instability, and poverty. Do you think these structural hurdles and regional rivalries will permanently stunt South Asia's growth, or can these nations actually transition into fully modern societies ever?

You have the answer in the bulk of the replies in this thread.

There exists a hate-filled nation obsessed with negativity and misplaced hubris. So, until India changes her mind and learns to behave in a civil manner this neighbourhood will remain as it is.