It really is difficult to create a significant change when the leaders whose job is to enforce policies and to build a sustainable framework for its constituents are doing nothing. Poor governing, anywhere in the world will just bring populations to the edge of environmental crisis.
Is there anything else that can be done? Cases like this sound so hopeless.
india is broken in multiple ways, it would need a brutal comunist revolution, similar like maoism, to fix their long therm development,
but i doubt thats possible, simply give religion for the poor (hinduism) , so they calm down, and use them as money earning cattle like the rich indians do.
oh and forget the western teachings about enlightenment or humanism, you cant live in india like that, you have to affix your mind according to the cast sytem, dont humanise the poor, you have to consider them like animals.
sounds hard but its true....
top indians, secretely think only the gods can help the poor they cannot, i wonder myself how long it will take till india might absorb some form of maoist communism.
regards