Our economic strength is largely based on America, we do their bitch work.

For any country to succeed, it has to innovate. Unfortunately, India has no big innovation in its name. All the best brains are already in US and no longer interested in coming back, coz research scene here is disappointing.

We as a country have failed miserably in projecting ourselves with the deeds rather than rants.

Unfortunately, irrespective of the number of Indians – contributing/ who have contributed – to the various fields of CS and other fileds, there isn’t enough quality stuff coming out of India. Majority of the times we keep patting on our own backs for the achievements of the naturalized Indians in the US.

Research output from the universities (including IITs, IISc, Central Universities, FRI etc.) is not upto the global count.

However, all said, this doesn’t give anyone the right to look down upon an ‘average’ Indian in any which way.
The so-called top 0.0001% folks come through the gruelling exams and competition, and that’s what makes them “SMARTER.” Do you have doubt’s? sure you have, I invite you to solve the entrance papers of these universities and clear them first and then start blabbering about the standards that may be. In India, calculus of variations, and Complex analysis is taught to the highschool kids even in the most backward of the states… English, well, fortunately, or unfortunately, not.

English language per se, is a compulsion, and not a choice for any nation to be heard and make a mark in the world where almost everything/everyone ‘modern’ is guaged by the proficiency and compatibility in/of the language.

Having said that, I do welcome your remarks, as this certainly gives us introspecting Indians a moment of truth and thought…
50 years, naah! come on, it’s too long a duration for any nation to evolve and emerge in applied sciences. Talk about basic sciences, philosophy, music, arts, mathematics… yes, we’ll definitely talk to the people who matter; and that too within the next 20 years, people like you would be all but an active participants on that bloody table.

As for further rants from Mike et al, well, I couldn’t care less now… Tech superpower, or NO tech superpower.

To life!

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BTW I am not taking anything away but you aren’t the only ones with brains.
You cant compare an IIT(top0.0001%) to the US average and say you are smarter.In anycase the english speaking pop is ~10% of India NOT the average.

You have a long long long way to go before you can call yourself a tech superpower that award goes only to 3 countries
1.US 2.Germany 3.Japan

BTW please don’t boast what Indians do in the US,the Gerries practically built NASA after WW 2 Werner von braun and gang but they never boast about that.

My advice keep up the good work and work hard and we’ll see you at the top table in 50 years or so.Good luck!