Agreed with most of your points except the part of "no quality of life" in India. Yes, it's not as developed as 1st World countries but it is amongst the top powers across various dimensions be it GDP, nuclear strength, defence etc. Also when I moved here, except for big cities, most of the mid-sized cities and towns were not comparable to the things we have back at home, I am not sure which city/town in India you're from but in quite a few places India is doing well. But I agree with majority of your other points.
India does have great GDP, nuclear strength, and defence. But it doesn’t really come down to a normal person’s quality of life. Our population still is too high for GDP to effectively do anything. That brings us to a country with extremely low gdp per capita. Canada’s small towns are great. For sure they don’t match India’s small towns because small towns in India are still big, but I love small towns here for the laidback quality of life. Perth and Smith Falls for example are my favorite. Great towns. India does have great potential. For me, quality of life boils down to what a country has to offer besides big economy. Healthcare in India is bad. There are great private hospitals, but think about it. How mant people can afford those private hospital? Growing up in Punjab, I always wondered what if we had a fire, or my parents had a medical emergency, there’s no system in place to call anyone. Millions of people die across India because they are so far from nearby hospitals and there is no emergency system. Also, we had a road construction thing back home. Out of 26 crores, only 2 crore went into the construction. The road broke within a week. Rest of 24 crores went to politicians. Here, almost all small towns unless they are in north, have their own hospitals and ER and surgical departments. If ambulance can’t reach u on time, helicopter will. Again no country is perfect tbh. But Canada does a really good job in providing one of the best standards of living. What I absolutely hate about India is that our country is democratic just on paper. In real, it’s an autocratic country. People can’t for fuck sakes stop fighting over stupid religions. Every law seems to take a religion into account completely dismissing a person’s freedom of choice. Violence and prejudice against women is what drives me nuts. Recently, a sexual offender in Kerala was acquitted because the woman was wearing provocative clothes. Really? If this is happening in the most educated state, what’s happening at other places? Corruption is so bad in India. Police services are the worst. Infrastructure investments are bad. Besides few good areas, our entire country has no infrastructure. Roads are downright bad. Sewage is non-existent. Ignorance towards environment is baffling. There’s no system in place to tackle the amount of pollution an average Indian produces. What blew my mind here in Ottawa is that how the city sends a notice to people when there is a road construction close by. They mentioned a link to a pdf, almost 200 pages where the whole road design was detailed and they explained how they are using world class technology to construct this road and how professionally written that pdf was with diagrams and what not. That’s another level of a functioning society. Canada was rated as the most fiscally responsible country in the world besides Australia. In India, when we do have the money, there’s no fiscal accountability. Our government is downright bad and nationalistic turning a nation with huge potential into a communist country. The hate against minorities is so bad. Muslim girls get so much sexual violence and nothing is done. Majority of our country can’t take criticism against India. For them, it’s the best. What makes me mad is, we need to accept that India has huge problems and not get mad when foreigners point it out. Recent promotional videos from BJP hiring bollywood to effectively advertise India on social media was maddening. All these problems have a single toot cause….corrupt government with no real leaders who can advocate for human rights and fiscal economy and progressive views. As the largest democracy, we should be showing the world how to protect human rights regardless of sex and sexual orientation and religion etc. but we don’t. Because so many people don’t have human rights in India. Anyway, for me, quality of life boils down to healthcare, education, freedom of living, keeping religion in your personal life and not forcing it into somebody’s ass, not bringing god into every fucking thing you could imagine, progressive views, infrastructure, less corruption, people should be free to marry and love whoever they want out of their religions and cultures, no violence against anyone especially women, etc. Canada wins in that. As much as I love India, our own govt. and people have destroyed it. It’s not India’s problem, it’s the people living inside it who refuse to educate themselves and progress and change their ways of living. Only thing they can blame for their own failure now is British people. If UK can go from a heavily conservative and religious nation to a progressive nation with far better human rights record than India, why can’t we? It’s all our stupid government regardless of there parties. It’s same across the board. Uneducated politicians who still think that they are in 1970. Modi govt. recently banned all his members to support freedom of marriage act that could have given people the freedom to marry whoever they love regardless of their sexual orientation. No, apparently, India’s cultural values don’t align with that. Like what the hell is culture? What cultural values are they talking about? We are supposed to be a democracy. Why so many guys and girls face violence and honor killings from their families if they have interracial love? Etc etc etc. i just am happy for every single woman that has gone abroad to Canada, UK, Australia etc. good for them. So many Indian guys here in Canada are like “girls forget their cultural values here” like what? Are they mad because they can’t control women here like they did back home? Anyway that’s my rant. I love India, but not the govt. and majority of these people for which our nation has to suffer. Great country with great culture but only if for once our people and govt. unite together and make it a true democracy free of corruption and responsible govt. that’s when India will unlock it’s potential. Oh, also, I hope india passes a law to separate law and religion completely. Religion should be a personal choice, it shouldn’t come into laws for a country as diverse as India. One and equal law and human rights should always have the utmost power over any religion or whatever a religious book says…ciao