Comment by hakcermani

Everything Gardiner is saying is true :-( As an indian and also an immigrant here in the US, i can only be ashamed. it is hard to defend India when such simple things taken for granted everywhere else is a luxury. India is a mystery. How do things even work? (Try an evening commute in a suburban train in Mumbai) How can people (that too 1.2 B) even live in such conditions ? (Are the conditions because of the 1.2B?). But the country has a strange resilience. It is a country steeped in tradition on one side and trying hard to catch up with the rest of the world in modernization on the other. There are sparks of brilliance everywhere. Like lotus in a mucky pond. (http://www.thebetterindia.com/25026/gatimaan-express-10-inte...). My only wish is a little less corruption, and basic amenities for all within 5 years. The problem is huge, and unlike software humanity cannot be just rewritten from scratch :-(