>>213442149 (OP)Due to recent events, I will no longer shy away from shilling India. I've traveled to dozens and dozens and dozens of countries. Of these, India has always been my favorite, to the point that I ended up living there for a fair few years.
Your question is too meme-able and generalized for an answer. If you're middle-class or upper-middle-class in India, the quality of life isn't really that bad, particularly once you start getting toward the higher ends of the income scale. Someone making the equivalent of $30,000 per year, especially as a single man or woman, has six-figure spending power in the domestic market and can often afford to travel to nearby destinations and countries on a regular basis. It isn't a wholly bad place to be.
The universal downsides of India relate to general efficiency: you have to bribe or cut through a lot of red tape to accomplish certain routine processes, trains and buses don't usually run on time, and a lot of people don't have civic sense (because they've been raised in a sociocultural environment that redirects their priorities elsewhere). All in all, it's just hard to obtain much in terms of upward mobility if you're born at the bottom of the totem pole, so to speak, but it's far from being the hellscape morons here think that it is.