India successfully launches first mission to the Moon
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India successfully launches first mission to the Moon
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#2Kudos to India... I said this before when China shot a man around the Earth, and I'm going to say it again; I hope they spur another healthy space race.
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#3India becomes the 4th country after USSR, USA and Japan. It is a great moment for the developing nation.
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#4India becomes the 4th country after USSR, USA and Japan. It is a great moment for the developing nation.
India has nuclear power (and weapons) and aircraft carriers. To all intents and purposes, it's a developed nation. Underestimating India on the assumption that it is "developing" or "poor" is a mistake that will bite competitor nations on the arse if they're not careful.
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#5Kudos to India... I said this before when China shot a man around the Earth, and I'm going to say it again; I hope they spur another healthy space race.
The next space race will be spurred on by applications that are not purely symbolic or scientific in nature. We are seeing this today with the rise of the private commercial space industry, and I fear that the military will be close behind.
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#6India becomes the 4th country after USSR, USA and Japan. It is a great moment for the developing nation.
India has nuclear power (and weapons) and aircraft carriers. To all intents and purposes, it's a developed nation. Underestimating India on the assumption that it is "developing" or "poor" is a mistake that will bite competitor nations on the arse if they're not careful.
"Poverty is still there, 80% of the population live on 20 rupees (25p) a day, according to a survey, but a large well off group has also emerged. Some 250 million are reckoned to be very well off, many of them very rich."
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#7India becomes the 4th country after USSR, USA and Japan. It is a great moment for the developing nation.
India has nuclear power (and weapons) and aircraft carriers. To all intents and purposes, it's a developed nation. Underestimating India on the assumption that it is "developing" or "poor" is a mistake that will bite competitor nations on the arse if they're not careful.
While India is booming in many ways, it still cannot be called developed. There is still a huge divide between the rich and poor and poverty is still a major roadblock.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
India has nuclear power (and weapons) and aircraft carriers. To all intents and purposes, it's a developed nation. Underestimating India on the assumption that it is "developing" or "poor" is a mistake that will bite competitor nations on the arse if they're not careful.
While India is booming in many ways, it still cannot be called developed. There is still a huge divide between the rich and poor and poverty is still a major roadblock.
So it's a developed nation with a huge underclass.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
India has nuclear power (and weapons) and aircraft carriers. To all intents and purposes, it's a developed nation. Underestimating India on the assumption that it is "developing" or "poor" is a mistake that will bite competitor nations on the arse if they're not careful.
While India is booming in many ways, it still cannot be called developed. There is still a huge divide between the rich and poor and poverty is still a major roadblock.
But doesn't every developed country depend on a large pool of cheap labour (i.e. poor people, working for low wages)?
You could look at is as Europe and the US just outsourcing their cheap labour, whereas India keeps it in-house?
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