Potential Superpower: India

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Several media publications and academics have discussed India's potential of becoming a great power or eventually a superpower. However, Daniel Lak describes India as the underdog, facing more challenges than advantages, yet it is approaching superpower status. He also mentions that despite the hardships of significant poverty, and social inequality, India is overcoming all of this.

Robyn Meredith claims that both India and China will be superpowers. However, she points out that China is decades ahead of India, and that the average Chinese person is better off than the average Indian person. Amy Chua also adds to this, stating that while India's potential for superpower is great, it still faces many problems such as "pervasive rural poverty, disease-filled urban slums, entrenched corruption, and egregious maternal mortality rates just to name a few". Also like China, India lacks the "pull" for immigrants, and Indians still continue to emigrate in large numbers. However, she notes that India has made tremendous strides to fix this, stating that some of India's achievements, such as working to dismantle the centuries old caste system and maintaining the world's largest diverse democracy is historically unprecedented.

Parag Khanna believes that India is not, and will not become a superpower for the foreseeable future, lagging decades behind China in both development and strategic appetite. Instead, he believes India will be a key swing state along with Russia. He says that India is "big but not important," has a highly successful professional class, while hundreds of millions of its citizens still live in extreme poverty. It is "almost completely third world". He also writes that it matters that China borders a dozen more countries than India and is not hemmed in by a vast ocean and the world's tallest mountains. China has a loyal diaspora twice the size of India's and enjoys a head start in Asian and African marketplaces.

However, Martin Walker leaves open optimism about the possibility for India in the future to become a superpower even with there being so much catching up with China for India to do. Part of this comes down to demographic trends, where as Walker points out: "The Chinese leadership is already coming to regret its nearly 30-year-old policy of permitting most couples to have only one child". A recent article in the The Economist further writes that as a result that the challege of an aging population and a looming pension crisis China faces there are likely to be room for India to catching up, not suffering from the same demographic issues with a growing and young work force.

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[Suds27786]

@johnmaxvan yes brother west lives in a delusion that they were born to rule while the reality is that power is never constant.... time has come for india but the educated indians shud do smthing abt dese bloody politicians

[johnmaxvan]

@Suds27786

majority of guys who comments bad abt. INDIA's rising power are not properly educated abt. GREAT INDIA. And I will forgive foreigner's knowledge here because they are not as smart as any average Indian because we have certainly best general knowledge in all over the world .They know only those things what HOLLYWOOD shows them.

In the end just PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN ...

OUR TIME HAS COME NOW......................

[johnmaxvan]

@Suds27786

we need more indians who thinks they can make this country super strong.

till 1700 century INDIA was the undisputed king of the world .they called it THE GOLDEN BIRD.

and just over 60 years of independence INDIA is growing exponentially.

i don't care what other countries think , certainly they r afraid.

we were superpower once and soon we will be again.

[Suds27786]

so you mean i shud tell the world india cant be a superpower..... why so .... will it do any good.... it will do no good.. i believe india will be a superpower..... i kno about all the corruption, dirty roads blah blah .... u may say... but at the end of the dark tunnel there is always a ray of hope.... which i can see and u cant.... pessimism always lead to failure.... we shud work together to realise that dream instead of cribbing....

[arasandt]

@Suds27786 Typical Nationalist mentality. GO and get the difference between nationalist and Patriotic.

[Suds27786]

@arasandt yaa ppl like u are d one who just crib and do nothing for india..... first step towards success is believing dat u are d best..... n may be u cant say but i say INDIA IS BEST

[mnmdharwad]

well India's is ninth largest in nominal GDP and third/fourth in GDP (PPP), if fourth, just a fraction less than that of Japan.

[arasandt]

@souro19 Wishful thinking is not going to get us there.

[arasandt]

@souro19 : I do and I want to tell them the truth. India will not become a superpower. We do not have any ethics.

[souro19]

@arasandt JUST THINK ABOUT 1.2 BILLIONS INDIAN !