1)How are India’s people handling the country’s transition into a growing world economic power?
2)Do they feel any change in their status in the world?
3)Is there more economic equity among the people as India’s economic performance grows?

It is a very hard question for me to answare because of three reasons. First of all I have not been in India long enough for me to see Indias different systems and fully understand their way of thinking. My answares are mainly seen in a swedish perspective and way of thinking.
Second, the people of India are unbelivably many and I can not possibly speak for all of them. I have only seen a really small part of India’s biggest city, which is home for around 18 million people. For me that too is an unbelivable figure.
Third, I belive there is different answares to the questions depending on who’s perspective it is seen through. The answares will differ depending on if it is seen through the people of the upper class or the poor and homeless.
I will definiatly try to answare as good as I possibly can. I will mainly speak for what feeling I have gotten through conversations and observations I have had the first two weeks in Mumbai.

1)They seem to handle it well. They think it is good and they want to become a powerful country. I feel that they lack of sustainable thinking. There is education avaliable for everybody but some familys can not afford to buy books and therefor their kids do not attend school. Things like these can in the long run cause many problems if the transition keeps the same high pace.

2)Some have said that they would like to see India be compared to powerful nations like the United states one day and they belive they are heading that way.

3)The economic equity is improving in really small baby steps. The wealthy are very wealthy and the poorest are very poor. But i believe the middle class is growing. It will probably be a long process and I believe they also need to improve the standard of living. These two things might be a few of the most important in India’s process of becoming a world economic power.