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No wonder it's so difficult to source good Tea in India.

What ?! Driving on undivided two-lane highways is one of scariest things one can do!

The (income) tax base in India is about 5%; they have no voice in the politics of the country unless they are big corps.

In fact, in many ways India can already be said to have UPI. "Farmers" (verified or not, typically rural) have free electricity, fertilizer subsidy, regular loan waivers, ... which were instituted as compensation for a broken market that benefit political cronyism.

This also has the 'benefit' of laundering bribes, without taxes - indeed, a joke about the family of previous Chief Minister of Karnataka (capital: Bengaluru) was that they grew gold in their farms!

Indian automakers have been faring far better here.

Tata and Mahindra's cars are increasingly top-of the pack when it comes to safety; very likely that if this continues, the Japanese car makers will enjoy the same fate as the Japanese bike makers.

Amusing that the Gandhi family's slogan at election time inevitably goes along the lines of,

"Be pleased heathens, for we allowed you plebs to own cars and computers"

Indira Gandhi is probably second only to the British in terms of the damage she did to the country [all of which are still in effect].