一位印度人眼中的中国：一对比就彻底输了！

We should calibrate our nationalist bombast to our actual achievements.

我们要根据国家的真正情况，不要说大话。

We Indians， all of us—secularists， communalists， Hindus， Muslims， all put together—are irrelevant in that sense. That is what experiencing the world will teach those of us who can afford to travel and haven’t allowed our minds to be shut by our fierce nationalism.

印度人，包括世袭主义者、共产主义者、印度教教徒、msl，其实都是毫无关系的。世界教会我们的是如何不让自己的思维被禁锢，不要被我们激烈的民族主义影响

The truth is we have few achievements. We squabble daily over idiotic things—ban Maggi！ ban Uber！—while other nations have lifted themselves.

事实上，我们成功甚少。我们每天都在为愚蠢的事情争吵。禁止MAGGI，禁止UBER！在其他国家进步的时候。

ailing to see the Three Gorges dam， my map showed 45 bridges across that patch of the Yangtze river and its tributaries. The entire Brahmaputra has how many？ Two？ A single Chinese city， Chongqing， a place few Indians have heard of， has likely seen more industrial development in the last decade than all India’s cities combined. Comparisons are embarrassing， and meaningless.

Anyway， even the Chinese are not there yet， not a fully developed nation with economic and political freedom and without everyday corruption， like Europe， like Japan. But you can see their path. Three more decades of this growth and they are there. Political freedom will come automatically in one way or another.

去看三峡大坝，我的地图上显示45座大桥横跨长江及其支流。整个雅鲁赞布江上有多少呢？2？一个中国城市，重庆，很多印度人都没有听过，但是他们在上个世纪的工业发展就超过了整个印度国家。比较令人尴尬，且无意义。不过，中国也还需进步，他们也还没有像欧洲和日本一样在经济和政治自由方面发展完全，还存在腐败。但你可以看见他们的进步。再有一个世纪的进步他们就完成了。政治自由总会自动或以其他方式到来。