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India’s 79-Year Answer to Predictions of Collapse
NDTV’s opinion piece argues that India has endured 79 years after predictions that the country would collapse. It presents that endurance as an answer to those forecasts, while warning that survival alone…
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NDTV’s opinion piece argues that India has endured 79 years after predictions that the country would collapse. It presents that endurance as an answer to those forecasts, while warning that survival alone is not enough.
The article says young Indians are rightly impatient for progress. It argues that genuine development cannot take place amid communal friction, political polarisation or majoritarian triumphalism. The piece therefore links India’s future progress to a political climate that allows development to move beyond social and political conflict.
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The lazy narrative is that India’s survival settles every argument, while the opposite claim treats communal friction and polarisation as proof of inevitable failure. Neither follows. Endurance is real, but so is the cost of conflict when young Indians seek jobs, opportunity and better public services. The useful test is concrete: can progress continue while political competition respects equal citizenship?
Source: ndtv.com
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