Yes, you may have 33 Crore Gods, try praying to them the next time a girl has acid thrown on her face or a man is killed, or a child is thrown on a fire all due to their CASTE.
Your friends in the West have formed the habit of making skewed misrepresentations about India time and again.They make it sound like this is all India is about.Its either Poor oppressed people being thrown acid at or the pathetic sanitary conditions of which they delight in taking photographs.
There is another India that is progressive and inclusive that they'd rather not look at.There is another India with a vibrant industry and a resurgent economy that completely evades their consciousness.Either they are blind and ignorant or they just hate to see us progress as that would deny them the oppurtinity to laugh at some1.