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At a risk of downvote oblivion, this is what comes to mind to me. Keep in mind that this is just what I perceive about India through all the media I've consumed so it can come across as a bit prejudiced. I'm sure there's more nuance.
The good:
The bad:
I feel combining this with @[email protected] likely creates a fairly accurate sense for the place.
India is, well...despite their historical advances in medicine and continued strong cultural fascination with academia, at some point they became nothing but call centers, distribution points, and scam centers. There is certainly more to India, though when I think of hacking, I think of China and Russia. When I think of scams, unfortunately India is top of the list.
India is big in software. Hardware has to be imported from China / Korea / Taiwan, and we have to pay them what they demand.