Jayant Bhandari Doubles Down on His Contrarian Outlook for India’s Economy 

5 years later his statements hold true!

Part of his comments are true... Only thing stopping india from being prosperous is indians themselves... We can't take criticism at all...

What Jayant said is unfortunately very true. I am very glad that I left for good. Will not return and won’t miss it.

These are the peoples who truly care about India

Jayant Bhandari is the most honest and humble Indian that I have ever seen. You can rest assured that he is not a scammer.💯

The way Indians behave and react to Jayant's pessimistic views is the same way Chinese behave and react to criticism during the Qing Dynasty. It only took 2 Opium Wars, multiple mass rebellions, dozens of unequal treaties, and foreign invasion for Chinese people to wake up. China learns from its own and as well as others' mistakes. Indians can't take criticism. Small difference, huge impact.

TRUTH IS BITTER ,WHAT HE SAYS IS TRUE ,WE INDIANS SHOULD LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES 😵

😂India will continue to be poor for 100 years

When ever has the IMF or the world bank be right in anything?

Poverty is good. It gives you more pride.

One word 'HONEST PERSON'..... reality never change..... point of view as comman person.....

China should train Indian China should employee indian China should help poor Indians

I dont want to hear bad about my country... but in reality its a fact.

India prefer poverty. Because they are more concerned about Religion. Obsessed with this Hindutva. As long as we have this govt. We have no hope.

Modi will surely ban you from setting foot in India. lol

3 years later CAA NRC he was correct

I think deep down he loves his country India, he truly wants this country to progress, thats why he points out the fallacies, this is positive criticism, we have to seriously consider his expert opinions and take necessary strategic actions..

5:53 Jayant Bhandari is right, Indian do not want to do business with China, Modi has no long-term vision, why build the train with Japan standard, India should build the train system by using Chinese standard so that they can connect to Nepal and China in the future, and send goods to China by train and many Chinese businesses would like to go to India set up factories and bring "make in India" to China. If you use Japan standard on the railway, the distance between the two rails by Japan's code is different from that of China's code, consequently, Indian train unable to run in China. India becomes a landlocked country. Also, if India sincerely makes friend with China it can get a good relationship with Pakistan so that Indian can build a railway all the way from India, through Pakistan, to Europe, and send "make in India" to Europen countries efficiently, ...., becoming part of "one belt one road" system, unfortunately ------------------------ Modi has no vision. Nobody wants to build a factory in India (for exporting) if India can't deliver goods to Europen countries or China efficiently.

It would be interesting to see modi vs this guy... 😂😂😂

Bhandari saab, first of all thanks a bunch for such a valuable stats. Its eye opening...however, when I discussed the same with my old college friend. He turned out to be a blind bhakt. We are no more friends. But I'd rather live with truth than stay friends with superstition, irrationalism and mythology believers.

Brutal and true!

It all ture what you said about indian..but 1. this guy probably has lot of buisness in china and have to praise china because of that. China's own people can't speak against china who is this guy . 2. If you search funny teacher on RU-vid your gonna find funny videos. Search funny Chinese people. It's not this guy's fault. the moment he speaks against china the next day he is on the road. 3. Join with china like Pakistan did.. well we all know the Pakistan and shrilanka's situation right now.

What this guy say is politically incorrect and suicidal in India but it is the hard true that India is facing. US or Europe is not going to move their manufacturing to India because of automation and their people want to bring back factories, in fact reason why Vietnam is doing well is because Chinese factories are moving to Vietnam as wages increase in China...

This man is 100 pc right.

What he said is correct.

It's March 2024. Let's see how his "Contrarian Bet" has fared since then: 2019: SSE Index (China) - 3021 BSE Sensex (India) - 38024 2024: SSE Index (China) - 3043 BSE Sensex (India) - 72761 For All those poor investors who bought into Jayant's Bullshit, they made total returns of 0.73% over 5 years. For those who bought into the India story, like me, have made 91.63%

He is right with reasons 👍

Well Jayan, I agree with you what you saying but my beef is what are your remedies? There are no perfect models out there but China model still is the best for a nation like India.

Very bold Indian, very strong courage of conviction. India needs people like him, not Modi.

India in Current Political format can not even dream to compete with China , till end of Humanity

Maybe what he said about economy and education is true but I do not support his idea of opening borders for China ,it's like after British people you want to be slave of Chinese.

7 years later still true

What he is saying is absolutely right but his choice of reporter and context is totally wrong

Jayant Bhandari as a Analyst is to the point as a Professionalism 😂❤🎉.

A brilliant person.

The way Rachel said.." oh really "...i was just swept off my feet...

Well he's right about demonetization. Inspite of his claims that teachers can't spell their names, still we see that some of the top ceo's of the topmost companies are originally from India! Don't forget he's indian as well. He want's india to succumb to china, could be a paid guy like most people who speak for China. Why would you enemy (china) want your good. Many SEA countries have their conflicts with china, why isn't he speaking about that.

The only smart person left is jayant bhandari. Stop just cursing india mr. Bhandari but start doing something for your own country. India is growing and will. It's a strong democracy. There's always pros and cons of everything if it's democracy or communism

Some of Jayant Bhandari's comments are true, some thought-provoking and some do not make sense!

He's saying 5 times than India ..USA used to say same about china 25 years ago ....but now it's second largest ....

50% Agreed...🙏

You are the most intelligent person

Just say that it is the Trumpian Fasonationalist world now. Indians cannot blindly follow the China model, but have to beat their own Indo path. Rich caste Indians can do their bits now to uplift trillions of downtrodden Dalits and other economic pariahs first, instead of jetting thousands of elites to their wedding parties.

India has much to offfer but democracy destroys this wonderful ancient people.

Jayant should be Prime minister of india.

Have you factored the debt?

Truth prevails

Love this dude !! At least some one has pointed out the issue with our Excessive population !! Also he is right about Indians generally living with a "POVERTARIAN" mentality ! One of the major reasons why people of India voted Modi back to power in 2019 thinking foolishly that he had managed to deal a fatal blow to Illicit money circulating in India !!

This man is 1000%right.I can not agree more what He sad about IMF...

Same couple again . He lots all his argument when he said most people struggle to write their names. Any way what’s my name 🤗

India is the fastest growing large economy of the world now. India become the 5th largest Economy of the world with around 4 Trillion $ which was 11th around 2 trillion position when Modi took over.Will soon become 3rd largest Economy in few years. Modi has made large scale infrastructure development in India which is for everyone to see. record number of highways , airports , railways . metros being built and this guy spewing nonsense on India and Modi. Let his continue to do this while India continues to develop and prosper . China developed with large scale investment from the West and Exports. India is not China and the times are also different regarding peoples perceptions of globalisation. But India is still growing with all these challenges.

I agree with most of the part of what u said (but open board with china never going to happen not even in 1000 year.)

Hinduism has no connection with economy...some facts are right not every words are correct and factually right...we should stop complaining and start doing.

I do agree that India would never become the next China, at least in the near future. But having China controlling the strategic locations in our homeland is not something we want here. There are so many things that we as a nation needs to work upon to build a strong and sustainable economy. But trusting China(or I should rather say, CCP) is something that we cannot afford.

But china too has major problems and its economy shrunk by 25% since COVID CRISIS also he constantly states East Asia is the only hope... but they also have social problems and their ferility rate is far worse than the west, about 1.0 to 1.3.... west is 1.8-2.0... The positive is they are still culturally cohesive and for the moment have not caught the multi culti marxist disease.... that said I think due to globalist socio-economics and politics the whole world is screwed....

He is smart then IMF and World Bank put together and Rachel is starting to believe him. It's the large consumer base and meddle class that the IMF is talking about. This enistines will go in drain soon. Not 5% are so called Hindu nationalist. People in India Vote based on choise not Nationalism. With the same logic if India grows by 10 % it will beat Japan and Germany hands down. We will take our time and grow at our own phase what's the hurry.

This guy have seriou issues with India...

You are right Jayant. But remember Hambantota is an example for indians to not open the border with china.

Out of thousands of language on earth this man chose to speaks faxxx 🗿

Hey Jayant please let me be poor. Iam happy in India with Hinduism , eating masala dosa rather than eating bats and dogs with 10000dollar capita income.

What does it mean by train Indians ? Do you want to colonize India ?like you are doing in Pakistan and Sri Lanka

He speaks no sense and doesn't really show any intellect. But this channel seems to love his negativity, best of luck to them...LOL

He is paid by isi

Its so true , India should have to go more faster , and Muslim rasissum is also big issue , its give negative image of India.

He is not correct. The Indians in this section are not optimistic ones and they resemble with him. He said businesses will get out of India while we are constantly improving our business index ranking. Every year hundreds of successful startups are launched. Today we have replaced Russia on 4 th place having maximum foreign reserves. Agricultural sector is booming. IT sector is expanding. Electric cars are on the road to become a common reality. What Hindutva he is speaking about? Hindus accept modern science with open arms.

These two super-lower country did not kept their promise as a result they cannot be good friend.

Don't listen to pessimistic worry live well

Where on earth is China a :Communist" ? - Dictator accepted !! - China accepted free market policies !

Poor us... damm we didn't give access to China belt and road and Pakistan stole this opportunity right from under noses. It is working so well for them they have become so rich now... lucky them :/

I don't understand why he is doing such a basic mistake, let me explain- GDP of china now - 16 trillion GDP of usa now - 22 trillion (I am comparing nominal, not PPP, if I compare PPP China has already passed USA) GDP of china 1990 - 400 billion GDP of usa 1990 - 6 trillion Imagine using his logic in 1990, china can never catch up to USA as their gdp is 12x. If they just grow their gdp by 2% they have gdp growth per capita of 1000 USD. But China even if they grow by 9% they only grow their per capita GDP by 360 USD. This is very stupid comparison, as it is comparing already developed USA with developing china. China, since they embraced good economic policies, was able to achieve high economic growth. Same way, comparing Indias current GDP to China's right now is silly. It's like comparing a student with Sundar Pichai. What you should compare is what Sundar Pichai was doing when he was a student, with the student. Compare chinas GDP of when it was in India's stage currently. That is compare china in 1990 with india now. Because that is where India is positioned right now, China in 1990 had startup boom, with large foreign investments, and rapid change in business culture, which is what India is experiencing right now. Even China in 1990 didn't have good education, and very low English speaking population, with large population working in agriculture. Make fair comparisons, comparing China right now to India is silly, compare with what it has done in past and see if India is on same track.

Jayant, agree with you on most of your observations on India but do you think that India should work with China ?....China would help India reach its potential ???....I rather doubt it and i am sure you know it as well. Name one nation which has prospered at China's benevolence and i would come over to your side. You mentioned that Chinese system is better than democratic setup but i beg to differ with you on this. The Chinese consider nobody as their peer and have no notion of liberty, equality and fraternity among the comity of nations....Pakistan is a great example of disastrous client state. It takes only a committed leadership ( democratic or otherwise ) to fuel the growth of a nation but agree that India lacks visionary and honest leadership and that mainly drags India down.

WoW....this guy is saying World Bank, IMF are wrong and he is correct...I cann't stop laughing....:-) let him think about us like that....That's why i always say 'You can get education but how you educate yourself is up to you" and this guy shows how much he is educated...

well India name are ridiculously Long that is part of the reason .

He is right

Kadva sach

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

To all indian, I know this is the truth but instead of criticizing your country and leaving it, try to become the change for your country, if you think government is so bad then join the government and change its system.

Jayant Bhatia who cares your words Indians are young and willing to work we'll come forward. ### we are hard working people. I want Indians to abandon English language and to be thought everything in regional languages then 60 percentage of Indians willl be engineers and doctors.

Such a hater he always talks about the poor India as a stereotype for whole of India .

Mr. Bhandari, you are just concentrating in numbers and estimates, but what you Don't understand is that in order for China, the ( CCP) to achieve such an economic power in the last 30 years, they did it by not keeping their word and promises to the United States. The USA, is the country that saved China, starting with Presidents Nixon, Carter, Clinton,who pushed for them to enter the WTO and Obama who by looking the other way, also helped, while the CCP did not keep their part of the agreement, which was for the China to make changes in their government system and institute reforms. Reforms in their policies regarding Human Rights, freedom for Chinese people, and be transparent when dealing with all the countries around the world. Instead they hid their main agenda which was just to benefit from the Capitalism system and knowledge of the United States. China under the ruling of the CCP, have stolen, copy, deceive, lied and misinformed the United States and in the present has continued to take advantage from countries all over the world, using the same tactics. So my question to you Mr. Bahandari is, do you agree that a country should behave and act in the way that the Chinese government has acted, in order to achieve their economic goals,? And how would you feel as an Indian citizen, if the Indian government has acted in the same way as the Chinese government did, in order for India to show the impressive economic numbers and projections that you are so proud and impressed to point out about the Chinese government.? Don't critise your country instead find the proper venue to express your observations without disrespecting and offending your country fellow citizens.

Hindu Fanaticism, promoted by Modi, is a major obstacle to India's growth.

Mr jayant just a day before I appreciated your overall view about the present state of affairs in India after watching your interview on RU-vid…little I was knowing that you are full of venom against your own country after watching this second video of yours. Today you have cut your umbilical cord with your mother land. Enjoy your lonely trip in the space because nobody cares about your personal opinion… you are a looser and non participant henceforth. We as a nation are limping and bleeding today … but will learn to stand on our feet very soon. The world bank’s and certain bureaucrats opinion is bit emotional but it is based on certain level of research and facts. It will take time but will happen. Stop being a Chinese spokesperson. It doesn’t matches with your level of intelligence. Just a friendly advice and a warning from a fellow Indian.

He is so prejudiced. He doesn't even deserve an opposing comment. He himself is not a rational person. Indians prefer poverty??-WHAT THE.... Who in the world says that. And you all are just encouraging your own slavish mindset by encouraging these views. Have a sense of responsibility to contribute in taking India out of the post colonial identity crisis. And manier times this is state sponsored propaganda also. Don't get hoodwinked into these views/comments so easily.

Continuous

I seriously agree with him on most of the things but still.... I will not agree that we should open the borders for China and start trading and learning with them , it's not about being prejudice and nationalist. He said that Pakistan allowed them to make the corridor but it wasn't for free, Pakistan had to take loans from them, China is exploiting them and till the time they realise it, everything will be almost destroyed. There can be ways that we can save our economy. We should stay hopeful.

Mr. Bhandari gives a static comparison of China versus India which does not give any context as to the difference over time. Economies are not static over time; they grow or decline. Of course, he seems to like the controversy he rakes through his views, tempting the responses he then complaints about. Just to fill in the blanks he left, both India and China were approximately at par economically by the early 1980s, when the economic graph began to diverge significantly. What were the reasons? Well, in China'a case, after the tens of millions of Chinese who wilted away under Mao's experiments (something Mr Bhandari dare not mention!), Deng Xiaoping and some other Chinese leaders wisely decided to chuck away communism and experiment with state capitalism. India, avowedly socialist, decided to trod the beaten path and continue as before. First a trickle, then a deluge, the differences in economic approach began delivering massive results by the turn of the century. China's economy really took after 2001, when they joined WTO. Two things worked in their favour - they tinkered with their currency, keeping it artificially low so their exports would be cheap. Secondly, they flooded markets with low-cost goods. They adopted the Singapore model of assembly manufacturing, where for instance, they would import a semiconductor plate that was 70% done, make it 100% then sell it as Made in China. India, thanks to her stupidly rigid labour laws and plant setup laws at the time, completely missed the boat. She still continues to do so, even when manufacturing in China is shifting to Vietnam. Also, the Chinese played to their strengths - they did not go for high-skilled professional tasks at first; rather they went for mass low-cost assembly manufacturing; and they still struggle with the international language, English. Indians used this advantage to compete, and you have Bangalore. India really missed the boat on low-cost assembly manufacturing, concerned as she was with the Middle East (and her domestic communal vote banks). The Look East Policy, then Act East Policy, have all come too late for India. Is it any surprise our SE Asian partners look at us with a sense of amused bewilderment when we approach them? Where was India when Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan were doing their thing? All these countries are on the verge of becoming developed nations. And all of them have a full 20-year lead on India. While India was busy dealing with Pakistan and her own secular circus, East Asian countries were busy improving incomes. The economy was never a priority in India except for the occasional hue and cry over the price of onions. But Mr Bhandari is right on the state of the Indian educational system - it is true that the vast majority of graduates being churned out from the country's educational institutions that are not IITs or IIMs are incapable of basic tasks. I happened to meet a business graduate from Hyderabad who did not know accounting. Well, how do you run a business without knowledge of accounts? Widespread state interference in the educational system, together with the debilitating influence of reservations and affirmative action - disadvantaging merit and talent for the sake of diversity, has wreaked havoc on the quality of India's universities. The degrees being handed out are barely worth the paper its printed on. For a free country, Indian graduates are inadequately sceptical and inadequately innovative, as a result. They are programmed to obey, not inquire respectfully and question everything. Strangely enough, this is against the very tenets of India's own ancient philosophical discourse, which prizes scepticism and argument over everything else. There is no systematic method of appraising apprenticeships and technical training in India's various workshops. So much value, generated in hitherto informal industries such as sculptures, painting, machine repairs, tradesmanship and craftsmanship are not formally captured because of the lack of a formalised register for recording training and experience. There ought to be more Indian students who study abroad, not just in the West, but also in the leading of Asia such as Hong Kong, Singapore, KL, Bangkok, Shanghai and Manila, just to see what other countries have done to improve their economies. Mr Bhandari blaming India's lethargy in economics on Hindu/Indian nationalism is misplaced, treating it as if it were unique to India, and giving us an insight on his political leanings. Wonder what happens in China when Shinzo Abe pays respects at the Yasukuni Shrine Bhandari? And wonder what the Uyghurs have to go through these days? Yup, nationalism of the worst kind exists, indeed thrives in China. If anything, Indians need more nationalism, not the type where enemies are sought to be destroyed (like in China; and sadly in India, the anti-Pakistan type), but one that can cultivate optimism, resilience and self-confidence. What one hears typically from an Indian today is "Yeah, we can't do it like the Chinese or the Japanese" then proceeds to give a shopping list of reasons why, rather than seriously questioning why, and making improvements. Indians in India make USD 1,800 on average a year. The same Indians outside India make USD 50,000 on average a year. They are the richest ethnic group in whichever society they find themselves in. If anyone said Indians cannot make it, they ought to be kidding. The Indians outside India number about 30 million. They'd be one of the richest countries if taken as a unit. Mr Bhandari's admonition of India in not buying into China's OBOR plan is also flawed. The OBOR is a fanciful Chinese idea to dump their excess manufacturing capacity on the rest of the world, and partners such as Pakistan are already reeling under the burden of the loans raised to support these projects, mostly of questionable financial merit. Even to the casual eye, it seems foolish to build a railway over the tallest mountains in the world to reach the sea over India, when ocean trade is a hundred times more efficient, and cheaper. Try selling that to another gullible schmuck Bhandari!

China is rich because of den jao ping and richard Nixon deal..This guy is destroying India's image.

Mr.Bhandari should apply for chinese citizenship and lead the life of an ordinary chinese for at least 10 years and then give suggestions.

Are they both couple??

Oh he saying the people who work for IMF and WORLD BANK are not smartest guy means he trying to say he is the only smartest guy on planet. In real beurocrates are so smart they manage the world.

Jayant Bhandari has analysed the problem of India accurately on basis of stats but his solutions are hilarious.He wants India to become Back office of the world India should aggressive pursue R&D and promote startups rather than waiting for West to hand over technology to our Crony Babus like Ambani and Adani so that they keep printing Huge monies.

He is bit right but largely under arrogance saying shit

His love for british Raj is understandable, he belongs to the hilly state of uttrakhand where britishers established hill stations and used to go for vacations. He must be connected to them in some way.

What about Real estate burst and loan defaults in Chinese books.

One of the stupidest analysis of an economy by him. If numbers are what puts a countries development, every mathematician will be rich, india and china were richest countries before 18th century and they both are developing towards that goal. China was growing at almost 16 percent but now it grows at 6.3 and it could go down as people grow older. Its one child policy ensured less people. But india has highest number of people in there twenties who will start working and generate more income. India will be next china as wages are rising in china, where as more people are joining the workforce in india. Indian wages are comparatively lower than china.

Who is he?

Funny think i observed in him is, he had done his Engineering in computers from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya Madhya pradesh, and Then MBA from Manchester Business School UK, and doing Finance job in Mining industry, confused about your specialization ?

lol the interviewer is just looking at him and nodding, she has no clue what he is saying XD

I recognise that there are lot of development needed for india in different domain. I challenge you to put any negative comments about chinese president or china through internet, when you are in china. China don't have free press, all internet data pass through their firewall. Our leaders and country can be constantly criticized, that is the beauty of democracy, and country and society evolves very slowly but in a steady manner. History teach us that all dictator / communist country failed miserably, by the way you had your graduation from "Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya" in madhya pradesh india, and you are able to reach in this position, then how could you tell that our educational system is very bad, instead of criticizing come back to india and teach at least 10 people, that is what true patriots do.

who appointed him as intellectual.😂🤣