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Only very small percentage of Indians speak good English. I have heard of very few Indians speak good English in fact.
And your source is? Obviously you have not been to India at all.

Most Indians I know speak Indianized English which is extremely heard to understand.
Don't blame them for you ot being able to comprehend them. The Americans in the US have no such problem with the Indian-American English. Its probably how poor your English is. If you mean the Indians that you speak to when you call customer service, one can only imagine the problems Americans will have if the guy picking up the phone was a mainland Chinese

Speaking English itself does not make you competitive. Speaking bilingual or more language is what needed.
Most Indians speak 3 languages. India has more languages than China so lets not discuss bilingual or trilingual. It is an accepted fact that the average Indian speaks more languages than people in most other countries in the world. If you were to take Gengis Khan and me for an example, we speak atleast 4 languages. English, German, Hindi and our native language (Kannada for me, Marathi for Gengis). Further, I also speak semi-fluent Mandarin and French. All educated Indians speak atleast two languages. This can go upto four in the citie.

At this point, Indians in general do no better than the Chinese. In fact, China mostly have the edge here since their people have good base in their onwn language.
So you're saying Indians don't know their own language as well as the Chinese know theirs? Kinda pathetic your argument, dont you think??

And service industry itself will never lift most Indians out of poverty anyways. Traditionally, countries need to develop its manufacturing sector before it develop its service sector. India took the short cut in this aspect which I think will come back to bite them.
Well it means we don't pollute our environment like you chinese are polluting yours. You are just crying sour grapes here. (I hope you understand the phrase since you're evidently Chinese). I would like you to substantiate the statement you made about which industry musr develop first and why? If India took the short-cut like you say, it also means that it choked China's chance of taking over the service sector. So we'll see how that turns out. China will become more expensive as a manufacturing sector. It is easier to shift manufacturing out of a country than services. Training people to run machines is easier than training them to offer services which is why services cost more and is a step above manufacturing.

That's a pretty sweet dream, but the reality is only Indian elites speak English. Most Indians speak their own local languages and need to rely on interpreters to speak with officials or Indians from other provinces.
There you go, contradicting yourself. First you allude that Indians don't speak their language well enough and now you say they speak only their language. Which one? Is jealousy clouding your judgement?

I get you. I have same feeling of my Indian co-workers too. Don't get me started..sign..
I don't care what you think. When we have a Chinese born and educated CEO of a firm like McKinsey or Pepsi, we can consider your argument. Even in China, most high-level managers are non-Chinese. HongKongese or Taiwanese are a majority of the chinese who head MNC's in China. Its an accepted fact, even coming from papers released by McKinsey and the likes that China is quite short of managerial talent. And its an accepte fact that managers are more valuable than underlings. Like I said, I am waiting for a Chinese global CEO of an MNC.

Actually, I do know Americans complain they can't understand what their Indian representatives are talking about.

Most Indians speak three languages like German, French, Mandarin, and English. Sure, I wonder if your face go red when you say that.

"Well it means we don't pollute our environment like you chinese are polluting yours. You are just crying sour grapes here."

Lol, oh my god, you are here starting all these insults on the Chinese and you call me sour grape. Anyways, I see Indian nationalists like you insult China all the time. I wonder what is motivation behind it? And you work in China? Smiling in front the Chinese and badmouthing them on the internet. People like you make me sick.

"I don't care what you think. When we have a Chinese born and educated CEO of a firm like McKinsey or Pepsi, we can consider your argument."

Yea, right now there are some Indians doing pretty well in western firms. But they are making profit for foreign companies. That's the thing. The brightest Indians work for foreign firms, instead of contributing something to their country. Lol, and you laugh at the Chinese?

And right now Indians have an upper hand in global managerial skills because of their English skills. Sooner or later they are going to catch up.
And that does not change the fact China beats India in both manufacturing and knowledge economy. Lol