It is interesting that you've mentioned 50. if you expand that to 80, that would be almost every country in the world.

Our biggest worry is climate change in the near future. Especially water scarcity.

We're in for a bad time in the coming two decades unless we go on a militant drive to conserve water.

Unfortunately I don't see that happening. Agriculture is our biggest consumer of water by a huge margin, but telling farmers to not grow water reliant but lucrative crops like sugarcane is political suicide.

UP is water scarce, yet it is also one of the biggest producers of sugarcane. Go figure.

Both of them being nuclear powers further complicates our security situation.

We fought with China, not the other way around.

> We fought with China, not the other way around.

That is not true.

From Wikipedia [0]: Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3,225 kilometre- (2,000 mile-) long Himalayan border,[10] the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

Not that I am a big fan of SCMP, but this fact is well known that India provoked the war[1]. There was even an opportunity to call off the war but we (our government) denied it.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2102555/i...

To each their own, but I'll stay with relatively neutral media, such as Wikipedia, as my source of information.

Anyway, we're digressing from the main topic of this post.

Sorry to say but Wikipedia is far from a neutral source.

I don't think that is all that relevant in this context (see Israel).

I tend to agree with you that Israel, as a country of its size and kind of neighbors its surrounded with, is not placed very pleasantly. But it is a country far more homogeneous than India in all the respects that make a nation ( religious, social, demographically and economy wise ).

As GP pointed out that India has the potential to self-implode given the inequality and poverty that has been bred for a long time ( hundreds of years ) by various rulers of the land.

The self destruction reaction might just fasten up if a catalyst is provided by anyone of the hostile neighbors.

Israel is very far from being homogeneous. It's made up of people who immigrated there from all over Europe and the Middle East. There is a big cultural divide between the people from European backgrounds and people from Middle Eastern backgrounds. It also has a significant Muslim population (17%).

Not sure about your overall points but Israel is far from homogenous with a large part of the country literally controlled by another government (Palestine).

Israel's neighbors don't have nukes. In India's case, on one side you have a known sponsor of terror(where Osama was found) and on another side we have One Party Communist China. And the fact that they both are partnering isn't helping.