IMO,

There is one we can do right now to improve the quality of life in Nepal, bust the corrupted heads of all the dirty politicians. Nepal is too small to be too hard to do better if the corruption eliminated (or brought down).

As far as India, it's just a giant version of Nepal in every context like size, population, corruption, etc. etc.   It's too messed up to be the next super power. The were under British. They fought real hard, finally the British took off. After that the Indians had no one fight against, so they started fighting eachother. And they are still doing that.

China is going a bit faster in bettering the life of some of their citizens. But still too far from being the next super power.

The idea of one these countries becoming the next super power is just like the science fiction that says - one day robots will takeover human beings. It's too ideological for  them to think of becoming the next super power. Instead, they should be thinking about how they can feed all the citizens properly, then comes the rest rooms, etc. etc.