[nalbyuites]

Worry not! Despite the "crazy nationalist streak" that you see online, Indians are actually one of the most critical of their government. Ask literally any Indian on the street about governance and hear the expletives fly.

So they are more than aware of corruption and poor governance. Except - they have tired of the doomsday predictions heard since 1947. The down votes are probably because the 'cancer' symptoms are brought up ad nauseum in Western outlets as reasons India (as if its a simple monolith) failed.

Like pg said for startups: If you feel that you will fail, you stop working and then that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think this applies to a country's psyche too, like it does to founders.