Is India competing for world power positions? Has the country also changed its name? What new self-image and global ambitions does the fact that the world's most populous country wants to change its name from colonial times reflect? How much domestic political debate is stirred up by the name change and the country's strategy? Will the name India, given by the British colonialists, be replaced by Bharat, which looks back to its ancient roots? What are the official languages ​​of India? In addition to English, which is a legacy of the colonial era and is used by the elite, what are the main languages? In addition to Hindi and Urdu, used by Muslims, what are the other 20 languages ​​in total? How unified is India, and to what extent is it a federal union of culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse provinces? How decisive are the differences in religions, languages ​​and castes today? To what extent does the public administration inherited from the British help in unified governance? Does India have ambitions to become a world power? What is the relationship between the United States and India? What does the status of a “non-aligned” state mean from a geopolitical and military perspective after the Cold War? What does the policy of strategic autonomy mean for India? What is India’s position on the Russo-Ukrainian war? How did India become one of the largest buyers of Russian oil? What are the Sino-Indian relations? In what ways are the two most populous states in the world, both members of the BRICS economic group, rivals and allies? Does the memory of the 1969 Sino-Indian border war still affect the relationship? How does India relate to China’s “Belt and Road” initiative? Will it enter into economic competition with China? How does the American effort to separate China from Western technology affect India? Does the Indian government believe in the liberal world led by the United States, or does it want to be an independent world power? How did India become a nuclear world power and how did the United States help it? What are the Indian-Iranian relations like? How did the world's fourth country manage to launch a successful Moon mission? How big and how developed is the Indian economy, which is the world's 5th largest economy? When can the Indian economy reach the top? What is the level of development of India's scientific community and IT capacity? What is the engine of economic growth ahead of China's? What is the role of IT and the internal market in economic development? Is rapid demographic growth an advantage or a disadvantage? What is the proportion of dependents compared to Europe or China? Where is the middle class developing? What are the social inequalities? How decisive is the caste system today? What are the roots of the caste system? How much of India's population is urban? How sustainable are the multi-million megacities, where sacred cows graze at the foot of high-tech tower blocks? How long does it take, and is it possible, for villages to catch up and integrate? How different are the operations and economic path of China, which lives in a one-party system, and India, considered the world's largest democracy? To what extent does violence permeate democracy? How can a unified legal system be created in a country with a Hindu majority but a rapidly growing Muslim population? What is the relationship between religion, law and politics? What are the driving sectors of the economy? How big is the economy's demand for raw materials and energy? How does climate change affect Indian agriculture? What infrastructural and educational changes are taking place? How can one of the world's leading university sectors be built on a backward and regionally uneven public education? How decisive is cricket as a national sport? László Csicsmann, Middle East and India expert, professor at Széchenyi István University in Győr, in the Inforádió Aréna program on 2023.09.15. Podcast. Subscribe to InfoRádió's YouTube channel and be informed first-hand about the latest uploads! Follow us on the internet: http://infostart.hu/ Follow us on Facebook: / infor%c3%a1di%c3%b3-118703541479581 Inforádió. Hungary's news radio. The news radio.