Becoming? They were always unliveable. The difference is that the dysfunction is a lot more visible than before, and even then it was a disaster. The problem is that in India things tend to get very visibly worse before they get _much_ better, and then there are other things that pop up which are also visibly bad; the cycle goes on. It is highly likely of our current problems will get solved in the next 20 years, only to be replaced with other problems of a similar magnitude, and thus the country will keep getting tagged as unlivable even though efforts do get made.
This is primarily because most of the problems have their roots in the very flexible mindset Indians tend to adopt; it's basically the antithesis of the "Deutsche Bahn" issue pointed out in another HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970.
This is primarily because most of the problems have their roots in the very flexible mindset Indians tend to adopt; it's basically the antithesis of the "Deutsche Bahn" issue pointed out in another HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970.