Is it safe to say that China is at least 30 years ahead of India?

Never understood what it meant, but now in the winter of my years, I now realize what that means. 😁

Maybe I should Poka Yoke and Nemawashi my writings as well. 😂😂

What is the experience of an ordinary salaried family to living in this bee-hive?

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Some Examples

High rise in China below:

Look instead at Pockets of Comfort created within your immediate environs.

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Before Desi eyes go somber and tearful, let me explain.

Not many will agree with Zeno, because he is a Mlechha Yavana Barbarian.😂😂after all.

Any Bank in an urban setting, used to be the equivalent of the famous play by Samuel Becket “Waiting for Godot”, except back then in India, decades ago.

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Instead of giving GDP numbers, GDP/Capita and all those Statistics to make you feel good or bad, I decided to answer Nagarajan Sir’s question in the form of a long meandering discourse.

Peace and good luck to all.

This so-called race is in my opinion, a Phantasm, that only exists in people’s mind and I would wager that this Phantasm chiefly exists, it seems in India- which is looking at China with a mixture of envy and jealousy.

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These Airports are an Ecosystem, where I’m far more ‘comfortable” and have a more ‘pleasurable experience’ than at La Guardia Airport or JFK Airport in New York $hitty. (misspelled intentionally).

Also, what does “Ahead” and “Behind” really mean?

Let us assume that the Polity called “Dung Poo Pew ” is ahead of the Polity called “Vishwa Parihasa” in some mythical race.

Do opposites attract? How often do you see weird couples like a guy/girl dating someone who is boring with no sense of humor ?

So what I’m suggesting is that rather than constantly comparing and tearing one’s clothes in agony, employ what the Japanese call “Nemawashi” and Poka Yoke

Not true in many other areas of the country. 🙄

Nemawashi: Small incremental improvements, that make your daily experiences better in whatever “Ecosystem”, you have to interact with.

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The model that prompts such a question is based on a “Circus Maximus” model in which Chariot races were run in ancient Rome, where Individual Nations in this example, are run like Chariots. Some are ahead, while some are behind and we are all spectators here.

Another Eco System, where you don’t have to apologize. 👏👏👏

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Traffic on Roads. Well, experiences in India. 🙄

They, in turn, have eyes only for the Good Ole USA.

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AQI (Air Quality Index) Delhi and Beijing… stinks to high heavens. Equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes/day even for the non-smoker.

And it does not matter, if the technology was invented in Timbuktoo, Africa. Copy Paste, Repeat.

Look at each individual Eco-system within your immediate environs, that works in your land, in your local Area and if you are not discomfited, then all is fine. “Experience” is the key here.

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Hippomenes won the hand in marriage of Atalanta following a running race by distracting her by tossing “golden apples” whenever, he thought, she was gaining on him.

Beyond that how logical would it be for one to pick a number based on the number of trips, the Planet Earth makes around the Sun?

You were “Waiting for your “Dough”

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Brevity is the soul of wit, but what can I say… Verbosity is the soul of a Twit. And I admit to being Verbose.

Petty Corruption. My mainland Chinese American friends, who travel back and forth to China assure me that petty Corruption is well and alive in China and the ranking by Transparency International, which monitors ‘perception of corruption’ in nations, ranks both India and China about equal. So that seems about right. 🙄

China is a polity; India is a polity. So far so good.

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ECOSYSTEMS where the citizens experiences need to improve.

Give yourselves a round of applause. 👏👏👏

Many lost their heads, as they looked behind to see if Atalanta was gaining on them . Hippomenes was given a head start by Atalanta.

Now for some areas of discomfort.

Hippomenes distracting the speedy Atalanta to win the race and also her hand in marriage

I’ve heard this proverb before: Fools build Houses and Wise Men live in them.

What is it that you folks wants to ‘Catch up” here??? Just asking not telling.

But is this what we want to emulate? I don’t know the answer to that?

Malls and Cineplexes in the US are dying… and descrepit (Thank you Amazon and Netfix) … So experience wise, you folks have it good. 👏👏👏

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Poka Yoke: Make the design of the systems, so that even “village idiots” (there are many) won’t be able to make things worse in the Eco-system and ruin your experiences.

Give yourself an applause here. 👏👏👏

So no harm for Indians to “copy” the technology obtained by sweat and tears and expense of billions of dollars or rubles over decades by the big Two.

China did that and still does that too. And I can’t understand complaints by the US and Russians here.

Zeno’s answer: NEVER.😫

It is the same situation, when I learn Newton’s Laws or Calculus. I can freely learn it without breaking much of a sweat. Use some else’s Gyanodayam for literally free.

So, here is my proposition.

And the plummeting birth rate in China and the aversion to marriage in China and even sex, among the young is increasing exponentially, seems to point to that.

But I thought, I would include it just for kicks and clicks. 😏

There is no shame, if one wants to repeat the technology, that was developed by the pioneers such as Russia and the US. The guide book and protocols are all there to emulate (Copy).

Any suitor, who wanted to win speedy Atalanta’s hand would have to beat her in a race and if they lose, they would lose their heads.

Coming back to Greek Philosophy this time.

How long would it take for “Vishwa Parihasa ” to catch up with “Dung Po Pew”.

Now, it is an experience that is just as good or not as good as any Bank Office in the US or China or any where else.

D-Marts etc.

Another Example from Greek Mythology: Hippomenes and Atalanta race. [This is a warning to my country, the USA, really]

Here it is an Eco-system where both Dung and Vishwa seem to be competing for the race to the bottom of the well. 🙄

Malls and Cinema Metroplexes

Your Corner D-Marts gave me the same “experience” as any that I had in Japan, China or Korea.

Housing: When I land in Hyderabad and travel through Cyber City, I feel like I’m in China.

Excellent staff from all over India. Amazing competence and professionalism shown by all from Doctors to Nurses to technicians, even the lift staff. 👏👏👏

That is all that matters really.

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Afterall, Whatsapp, FB, mobile smart phones, have all helped us interact as well as avoid pesky and nosy neighbors and relatives.

Again, in any urban setting in India, the Malls are an eco-system as good as any experience in China.

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I don’t know. I know that if I were young, my sex drive would plummet, Viagra or not.

I land at Hyderabad or Bangalore Airports. The airports are spotless, well maintained, orderly and the people follow all the rules, the security is run smoothly like clockwork. The Uber and Taxi System is excellent and smoothly run. So is the Baggage Carousel, Immigration, Customs, etc. etc. WOW!

Airports: ECO-SYSTEM.

This begs the question.

There is the Greek Philosopher Zeno’s paradox.

Well for starters, “Vishwa Parihasa ” must run at a ‘faster’ pace than “Dung Po Pew ”.

Would that be logical? Yes!

India has a space program that seeks to reap military as well as civilian benefits in this so-called race which there is none.

Anyone, who looks behind to see who’s on their heel. will befall the same fate as all the suitors of the lovely Atalanta in Greek Mythology, who was the fastest runner in the world.

Viswa Parihasa and Dung Poo Pew Parodox per Zeno

Space race- Technology in general.

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This paradox argues that Viswa Parihasa, a swifter than Dung runner, can never overtake the slower Dung Poo Pew, who has a head start by the way, because by the time Viswa Parihasa reaches the Dung's starting point, Dung will have moved forward, and Viswa must then catch up to that new position, repeating this process… ad infinitum.

Not the distant unheard of thunder from climes and places, thousands of miles away.

Don’t compare, Don’t Complain.

I generally don’t place a time scale on who is ahead or who is behind and by how many years in this “Game of Nations”.

Don’t constantly engage in below the navel gazing, if you know what I mean and most of all Don’t Complain; or at least not so much.

Zeno of Elea, born c. 495 BC—died c. 430 BC

I will even wager one of my shares in JD. Com ( a Chinese MNC) that most Chinese are not even bothered to see, if India is “lagging” behind them.

The other factor is TIME. This is where the paradox comes in.

So, if China were at all worried, like Hippomenes, that India would overtake them in this “race” that they are not worried about, then they will like Hippomenes toss some thorny crab apples* to distract the nattering classes in India.