Because our start was stable.

About Pakistan, "Our major freedom anniversaries have all seen us in or near major crises," lamented Dr Niaz Murtaza in the Dawn. "In fact, soon after 1947, we became a crisis-prone state that faces a political and/or economic crisis every three to four years." "Why did a state created with huge hopes as a haven for tens of millions come to this? Both the state we broke from (India) and the one that broke from us (Bangladesh) are doing better. Why did the same DNA not deliver for us?" "Seven-and-a-half decades after the British colonialists left the subcontinent, only one successor State has been able to attain true economic autonomy. India's relative stability in an unstable neighborhood makes it a curious outlier," wrote Pramit Bhattacharya. "Despite its weaknesses, the Indian Constitution has allowed disaffected communities across the country to hold on to the 'idea of India'." Perhaps, India's stability is due to our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. At Independence, "Apart from tackling the communal violence, there were more than 550 princely states that were bargaining with the Indian state." wrote Shashi Shekhar. But, "In five years, the growth rate rose from 0.72% to 3.6%. Soon, the princely state became a thing of the past; the dream of one India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari took permanent shape." "When there were not even enough trains and roads he laid the foundations for space and nuclear institutions. Top-tier educational institutions such as IITs and AIIMS were founded. All this was achieved in a country where the literacy rate was only 12%." Today, "Painting Nehru's 17-year rule as a period of unremitting darkness is a grave injustice. Nehru strongly established parliamentary democracy and free elections in India which many leaders across the post-colonial world abandoned," wrote Sagarika Ghosh. We are in imminent danger of losing our democracy. "India's status as a free country has changed to 'partly free', according to an annual report on global political rights and liberties." BBC. "The Emergency is often regarded as a dark phase in independent India's history because this period was marked by unbridled incarceration, stifling of dissent, and government crackdown on civil liberties." HT. According to former Chief Minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav, "I laugh when some Union ministers narrate how 'bravely' they fought during the Emergency." "My colleagues and I in the steering committee didn't know many of the ministers in the [Narendra] Modi government today who talk so much about the emergency. We hadn't heard of [Narendra] Modi, [Arun] Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu during the emergency." We are suffering much worse today. If anyone dares to protest or even criticise, their homes are demolished by bulldozers, BBC, in collective punishment against women, children and the elderly. Pakistan has been lurching from crisis to crisis. India has been stable so far. For how much longer?