India suffers from a widespread yes-man culture. Nobody asks questions, everyone claims to understand everything, the reality is they have no clue. Everything that happens, happens for kowtowing and ritual reasons, not because of understanding of what needs to be done and why.
India is largely a cargo cult. Not to the same extent of removedness from reality, but much more widespread and commoditized.
> Nobody asks questions, everyone claims to understand everything, the reality is they have no clue.
India is so big that, you can not claim this for everyone in India. Counterexamples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha