Bill Gates calls India 'a laboratory to try things'

So:

   India is an example of a country where there's plenty of things that are difficult there -- the health, education, nutrition is improving and they are stable enough and generating their own government revenue enough that it's very likely that 20 years from now people will be dramatically better off and it's kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places

Interpreted as:

   Bill Gates says he uses India as a laboratory for testing new drugs on us. And our govt allows this evil man & his foundations to use us as guinea pigs! Shocking and shameful!

Not trying to defend Gates, but that's extremely taken out of context.

He is right that India is super interesting, cuz if you look at their neighborhood every single country is either on IMF life support or a failed state.

And if you look at their Central and State govt spending, there is hardly any capex available for anything. Yet they somehow keep growing, and haven't collapsed. Its such a large system, even if parts of it implode there are other parts that seem to compensate. This is possibly why they don't look like their neighborhood or Africa.

If India implodes the world will be a much more chaotic place.