One would be hard pressed to find a country of these many people and this size without any issues of its own. The grass is always greener on the other side and it's really easy to proclaim something as dramatic as "The Indian State is slowly disintegrating" .. Yeah of course there is poverty and corruption and bureaucracy and what not .. but the situation is not as bad as the commentor potrays it to be. As shabda says, the situation is certainly improving, be it infrastructure or standard of living in terms of factors such as literacy, female infanticide, child mortality, access to better medical facilities, and so on and so forth.