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Interesting view!
China is "far ahead" of India is a myth. In terms of development and tech, yes they are ahead. But not "far ahead."
Most of China's tech are copies of US/European tech got by buying up companies, forced tech transfers, or outright stealing which India doesn't do.
Their fighters, engines, rockets, tanks - most are copies of Western/Russian tech. Sometimes part for part. 2000 years ago too they were good replicators, traveling thousands of kms to India to copy Indian texts on religion, science, philosophy, medicine. Commendable.
They do a good show with the robots and drones, producing them in numbers and deploying them publicly. But most of them are still behind what the US has. And all the tech was first innovated in the US/West.
They still assemble 80% of a smartphone "Made in China" from imported parts. They still rely on western tech for their chips. Yet, not a single Chinese will ever mock themselves as "only assembling." This is their strength.
Their AI models are definitely good, but most of them are distilled from western models, trained on illegally obtained sanctioned American GPUs, and lag in capabilities to frontier US models.
Their cities are definitely built to impress. But built by printing huge sums of money and taking large amounts of debt. And rebuilt from scratch razing down entire localities without any choice given to citizens.
Their development model is something a democracy like India simply cannot replicate.
When some in India compare some infra from China, as it is trend now, and mock India's, also ask them to say in the same sentence:
"Let's have a dictatorship, I am ready to go through a cultural revolution that destroys all dehati behavior including mine, I'm ready to leave my religion, and give up all I have to the govt to redevelop India."
They won't. But this is what happened in China before to get what it has now. Millions of historical books were burned, religions and local languages were destroyed, millions of dehatis killed, teachers were roasted and eaten, tanks rolled over protestors. Not a single thing I said in this para is an exaggeration.
And some of their practices like stealing tech and sabotaging others to rise, or use their women like assets to influence the weak western elites to gain from them are somethings India will never do.
Indians must get rid of this inferiority complex instilled into us by clever psyops and propaganda to disillusion us and derail our development.
India has long been the land of innovators and riches. A rich India shielded China from the worst of Islamic invasions and western colonialism.
China's "century of humiliation" they play up pales in comparison to 1000 years of oppression India faced destroying its culture, civilization, and capabilities.
Yet, India has risen up since independence, and even with a democracy where reforms can't be pushed through and no cultural revolution killing 30-40m, India has done well enough to keep up with China.
At present, if you look worldwide in developed nations where both Indians and Chinese migrate to, you will see Indians far outpace the Chinese in wealth, income, innovation, startups, leadership, politics etc. In every single nation. No exceptions.
Given similar opportunities, Indians and India will do extremely well. Indians do better than even natives while starting from scratch. And this is across castes, religions, and regions.
Come to a country like the US or take UAE - Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Malayalis, Punjabis, GCs, STs, Christians - every Indian group will have people who have excelled.
I am not saying the Chinese aren't capable or inferior. That's what they do to us trained by CCP's toxic supremacist propaganda. We don't need to be them. But every Indian must understand, India will quickly catch up and surpass China if it is allowed.
This is something many Indians do not realize themselves, but China and the US realize. They can already see an India doing wonders in development at current per capita. That's why they actively try to sabotage and slow down India.
You may be of any political ideology or religion or region in India, but you can't deny that India has been constantly attacked and sabotaged from rising up.
It was the British during Nehru, the Americans during Indira, and now China has joined them to derail, destabilize, and disillusion India during Modi.
Leave aside politics and you will see clearly outside interference and destabilization efforts on India since independence. From meddling in internal politics to creating protests to outright assassinations of our leaders and innovators.
So stop listening to these blackpillers day-in and day-out mocking India comparing it with China when it suits them. They themselves are puppets of a psyop and hence do it, but otherwise will say "India and China can't be compared. China's centuries ahead."
I agree India doesn't need to be compared with China. But not because China is centuries ahead (its more like 10 years now), but because India need not be China. India can be better and will be better.
And for that every Indian has to do their part without derailing and destabilizing everything in a fit of rage because somethings you want aren't happening soon enough and some are constantly telling you a revolution will sort out everything.
The revolution is already happening. Peacefully. The changes will happen, the country will rise, and it is inevitable if there's political stability and current pace of development, India will have much better cities, facilities, and reforms that all want.
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Muslim marriage cannot shield husband from POCSO case if wife is under 18: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that a marriage recognised under Muslim personal law does not give a husband immunity from criminal prosecution for sexual intercourse with his wife when she is below 18.
delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/sh…
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This seems to be the state of affair in all engineering departments. Most of Engineers themselves don't want to understand the code, because a. claude write quite good code, so no need to improve it b. its takes lot of time to read claude's written code as it is complex.
People have stopped thinking and started giving commands; "I want this feature, what is the best solution" and once solution looks reasonalbe, "Implement this feature". No need to think of best approach, no need to check the code.
The days are not far when all code would be black box to engineering teams and then there won't be any difference in engineer and non engineer as none of them knows what is inside and how to resolve problem and improve the code.
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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"Inheritance to halala: Uttarakhand Waqf Board's bid to recast nikahnama"
Daughters equal stakeholders in father's property after marriage. No triple talaq. No forced halala. Iddat by choice. Registered qazis. Age 18/21 with ID.
Steps in the right direction.
#UCC #Uttarakhand
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Another inovation from India!!🇮🇳
At Alteon, we are building planes that fly for more than a year without landing. Ones that would take off in 2026 and land in 2027.
We’ve raised a $2.5M pre-seed, led by @lachygroom, with participation from @shubg at @scaletogether.
We do this using a flight technique called dynamic soaring, and we just hit our biggest milestone yet toward making it a reality:
Wow, it's being built in India! So proud. 🇮🇳
Earlier, whenever I saw an exciting new product or startup, it was never from India.
Now when I see something really good and I'm 100% sure it can't be from India :) — to my pleasure, in many cases it turns out it is.
So good, so good! 🇮🇳
For generations, we've pushed the limits of what flight can do.
Yet moving goods still comes with a compromise. The sea takes weeks and flying costs too much. Somewhere along the way, the world got comfortable with waiting.
Today, we announce Eureka, our first aircraft. It takes off and lands on water, and it's designed to turn "in a few weeks" into "on the evening flight."
Break the surface.
Perfect victim and ideal offender.
Perfect victim stereotype can influence the judicial perception, like gender, age, behaviour, social background and influence judgment.
Interesting read on polygamy( which allowed for Muslim men) as Apex court is examining its constitution validity and specifically Article 14,25 and 16.
😀😀 This way, will not able to convince people to report bribes.
If complainants are identified, there is chance of there harassed.
The reason bribes.fyi shut down
The Prevention of Corruption Act requires that the IP address of the complainant (even if he is anonymous) be logged in by the website host server so the authorities can identify the complainant. Giving a bribe is also a crime !
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Apex court reinforced safeguards against arbitrary arrest in recent case in Vihaan v. state of Haryana(2025)
BCI Chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra apology letter.
BCI Chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra apologises to students after facing flak from students and civil society and being slammed by the CJI over his decision to bar the enrolment of NALSAR law graduates as advocates. The decision was later withdrawn by the BCI.
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