‘We Indians have had it far easier’: Sridhar Vembu urges India to match China’s will to rise

To compete with China, SRIDHAR VEMBU says India must revive its civilization, not just GDP. In a post on X, VEMBU says the real transformation begins when the nation sees itself as an economy, but as a preparation ready to rise again.

“The Chinese not only thought of” developing the economy. “They thought about their national project as” reviving their great civilization “, as it drew parallel with the arches of Japan and Korea, both of which underwent their cultural and economic residence before they took the world stage.

He said this is the only idea that India must absorb urgently.

“It is very easy to miss this decisive point in purely economic discourse. It relates to cultural culture and mentality as much as technology and industry.”

In order for India to evolve really, its people must believe that they are at the beginning of a civilized revival – not just another expansion cycle in GDP. “We are not only growing gross domestic product and meeting quarterly numbers, although it is important in the short term,” Vembu wrote.

He said that the history of hegemony and looting in India for 1000 years-what the Chinese indicates as “100 years of national humiliation”-left a deep psychological scar. “We must look further, as it is difficult,” he added. Only then the nation can maintain the morale and endure the necessary transformation in the long run.

He also urged readers to understand what China endured to reach where it is today. “Please read the history of China, during the past hundred years,” he wrote. “The era of the great jump was studied forward 1958-1962, when Mao asked the poor farmers to make steel in their rear techniques, and when about 30 million people perished during the killing of real estate owners, thinkers and the poor to death.”

He went on to describe the cultural revolution that lasted a decade from 1966 to 1976, when schools and colleges were closed, and national citizens were condemned as owners, intellectuals, or “capitalist Roders”-who were persecuted or killed. “A lot of sadness and sadness,” he wrote.

However, she revived China. He added: “They survived all of this and somehow returned their nation,” noting that even Deng Xiaoping “was not easy at all” and barely survived three cleansing operations.

“We have made the Indians much easier,” he said. “I do not say” easy “in terms of absolute, but compared to what the Chinese hold, it was much easier. We need to maintain this perspective. The Chinese story is an inspiration.”

VEMBU believes that this shift in thinking also changes how citizens respond to the regime. “We will not complain about this shortcomings or the bad tax policy. We will not even complain about much of the corruption of our falling political system.”

He referred to China again, where entrepreneurs faced all the same challenges – in addition to the risk of disappearance if they fell from the political form – yet it remained on the path.

“Let’s solve ourselves that what we are doing is no less than reviving our great civilization,” he wrote.