Tamil Nadu now generates more wealth than Pakistan, despite less than a third of its population. The founder of Info Edge, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, made the comparison on X, using it to offer a striking reprimand to military and political leaders in Pakistan.
“Focus on education, infrastructure and economic development. Forget this obsession for militant Islam, cashmere and anti-Indian,” Bikhchandani published on Wednesday. “Stop supporting terrorist groups. The inhabitants of Pakistan will be better off. ”
The figures support him. The economy of Tamil Nadu, powered by high value industries, has crossed $ 341 billion – on Pakistan’s GDP. Once rejected as a provincial state, Tamil Nadu is today the industrial avant-garde of India, leading to sectors such as cars, electric vehicles, electronics, software and renewable energies.
Chennai, the capital, has turned into a global computer center, while cities like Coimbatore and Tiruppur lead exports to textiles, engineering and leather. The state is also the largest exporter of electronic products in India and leads the transition from renewable energies.
Bikhchandani’s position is not only compared to savings – it has formulated them as choices. Tamil Nadu has built factories, technological parks and energy networks. Pakistan, he argued, chose weapons, wars of proxy and religious extremism.
His criticism went beyond economic data to question Pakistan’s national priorities. “Tamil Nadu shows what is possible when a company invests in its people instead of grievances,” he wrote.
The post has affected a nerve in the geopolitical landscape responsible for South Asia, where comparisons between the booming states of India and the economy in difficulty of Pakistan often trigger animated reactions. For Bikhchandani, the lesson was frank: prosperity is a choice of policy – and Pakistan is still the wrong.
