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Research in India? Have yo done it? Do you have any idea about what it takes, what we have in India and what we need to develop?The problem with your approach is India will always be 50 years behind in tech. I'd rather not waste time. We are a much stronger economy now and can afford research, something that came at a premium earlier.
Regarding the Civic, I did not ask you to give me specs, but since you like to blatantly mislead let me state it loud and clear for you. The Indian 12 lac Civic is an automatic tranny, leather upholstry, front and rear disc, alloy wheeled elegant machine. The 18K Civic you quoted is a manual tranny, fabric upholstry, plastic wheeled, rear drum break peice of crap. When you match the specs, you end up paying $26K for the same machine. a small matter of Rs 1 lac. go figure.
I have done research in India for 8 years before coming to the USA (yes, my PhD is from a premier Indian Research Institute). I have since worked in the USA for ~8 years - if you had any idea about what the difference is you would not even make naive statements like these ... problem is people from IT sector think that since India is doing better in IT (supposedly, don;t get me started there too), India is doing better in other engineering or Science areas. The truth is far far from it. Actually, in the last 120 years (since the time of J C Bose, C V Raman etc), India has consistently lagged behind. So so much so that the gap is indeed 50 years or so. To bridge that gap, you need more tahn just GDP growth - far less PPP growth. you need wholesale infrastructure changes - as well as political mind set changes and social changes. In my last 2-3 visits I have since NOTHING like this going on in India, including IIT, CCMB and a few other places I have visited.
As for the specs - you clearly do not read the specs - now do you? IT guy - RTDM?
The specs were for BOTH auto and manual tranny - 5 speed. Everything else put together it is still considerably cheaper in the USA. The fact of the mater is, civic is considered an entry-level car in the USA, hence all the "options". In India it is still a "luxury car", hence all the bells and whistles. But then you would not know would you? For you India's PPP is the great white mountain that we have climbed. here's anotehr curveball - have you looked at Indian per capita GDP? PPP or real? Compare it to a smaller and weaker economy like say, Malayasia? What do you see there?
For a country who have not been able to produce a decent assault rifle in 60 years, you do have BIG claims - eh mate?
Here's the deal - India is still developing - the economy is going well, and let's all hope it stays that way. Also let's hope that we buy tech from the west more often since they definitely have the edge in technology. I also hope that in my lifetime India will become a developed nation.
OT rant over - no more comments about F-35. For that matter I am out of this thread ...