[enupten]

Oh come on. The issues that are constantly being dredged out by NyT and Wpost, tend predominantly to be endemic to North India. Why ? Because the governance in North India has historically been in a much worse state and consequently its economic situation is much worse than that of the South.

The public schools in India are in a pathetic state, they can't get a degree from a university in their own mother tongues. In the rare case that they do, they never get a job...

This suggests that poverty brings many social problems. It also suggests that governance is a big part of the problem.

Colonialism should also be assigned a big part of the blame, since such egregious an aberration does leave a very deep scar on the society.

Indeed Angus Madison notes how India's GDP fell from 25% of World's GDP to ~1-2% in less than 2 centuries of British rule. The scorched-earth policies which economically destroyed foundries to textiles, which prevented mechanization, which destroyed widespread schooling & killed off scholarly traditions, which left many of the Jati's economically weakened, which killed of millions in famines...

The irony is that the fears of Luddites came true in India & China (with military help of course).

You have a very shallow understanding of societies (and arguably of history too). This goes back to my comment about class war - the anglicized urbanites have no tangible connection or understanding of "Bharata", the poor disenfranchised India.