Comments by "suraj s" (@surajs5913) on "Neither ‘udta’ nor ‘padhta’ Punjab. Question is how India’s no. 1 state in 2003 tumbled" video.

Northern bimaru states definitely CAN overcome southern ONDU GONDU states, when visionary leaders with a definite ideological commitment and sincerity to the people emerge. A lot of new prominent start ups are from people who are from western UP and this trend seems to only grow as development becomes more uniform and the driving force.of indian politics. Whats needed for indian growth more than anything is practical vocational based scientific education. That is not the only way for India's rapid economic development but the fastest way to ensure the same so that india is a major power within the next 2 decades. Southern ONDU GONDUs became so developed because of better education (not the best but just better than the northern areas).
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@SQUID12 man did you read the original comment? The question was how northern states can become better than southern states. It was about the future and not the present. But i guess you want the northern states to be eternally poor...
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Awwww, truth hurts doesn't it? So cute...
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@SQUID12 and yet karnataka telengana and andra pradesh are seeing rising communal politics despite being three of the fastest developing states of India. Similarly gujarats development post 2002 is another example. Caste is economically regressive in this modern age, but i find no correlation between communalism and economic development because of examples like stated above. Certainly development can happen without communalism, but i dont see communalism as an impediment to development...
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@SQUID12 look at the economy of bengal, i dont see much economic progress despite the lack of communal politics for the last 20 years... Or see orissa, why haven't these states flourished yet?
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@Crysizz the communists even took the credit of growth in my home state kerala. Kerela literacy was already 47 percent at the time of independence because of the rule under travancore kings. At independence itself kerala was more educated per capita by upto 15 percent from national average. Yet the communists have successfully brainwashed people to believe that they are the reason for keralas higher literacy while keralas economic model is to become the migrant labourers of the world. Its almost as if keralites had a nostalgia of working for a foreign master that they continued even after independence.
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@SQUID12 i used WB to illustrate that the absence of communal politics is no guarentee/prerequisite of rapid economic growth. One can argue in Orissa's case that slow economic development is also due to maoism. But again my original argument was to highlight the lack of correlation between communalism and economic growth
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@SQUID12 if by "fight" you mean "violently massacre each other in communal riots" then you are right. If by "fight" you mean "engage in forced conversions or use the established institutions to legally prosecute and make life difficult" then no you are wrong, unless your idea of development is a state where religious and social identity is just a shallow visceral thing with no actual depth or value to the individual. Such a "developed" society where values and ideals count for so little, that seems like a repulsive society that lacks both integrity and conviction to commit to anything bold or daring. I don't think that is development. I think development is when economic opportunities are more or less uniform while personal religious and social identity is allowed to exist. In such a society the rule of rationality above feelings ought to exist so that no one acts violently using "being offended" as an excuse. And in such a society the rule of rationality would apply equally to all sections of society.
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