What’s one thing India does better than the “developed” countries everyone worships?

We spend all day here ranting about everything wrong with India (some of it fair). But flip it for a second.
I’ll go first: UPI. I can split a ₹30 chai bill with a friend instantly, for free, by scanning a QR code. People in the US are still mailing each other cheques and paying $30 wire fees. We genuinely leapfrogged the West on payments and nobody there believes me when I say it’s free.
So what else? What’s something where you’ve actually thought “wait, we do this better than [rich country]”? Could be anything — food, trains, jugaad, family stuff, whatever.

Posted Jun 23, 2026, 10:31 AM UTC

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