Saturday, September 19, 2015

So We Love India? Really?


If we believe any or all of the following:
1. India has enough wealth, all that is left to be done is its just and fair redistribution.
2. Terrorists are simply the inventions of the US/Pakistan, not an ideology or cult.
3. Globe is warming because of manmade CO2.
Then it means:
We're actually standing with India's enemies.
It means did not read any books beyond text books of our degree courses. Whatever we know about the world around us has been picked up straight from Tehelka, Outlook, India Today, The Times of India, and the News Channels... without any further scrutiny of course.

India is just sum total of all of us.
If it is seen and perceived as a wretched third world kleptocracy, that means we have been doing something terribly wrong all along, or that we are the inferior creatures.
History does not support the second conclusion. So the first must be true.

To correct the situation:
1. Accept that we may be wrong, whatever we know may be wrong.
2. Start reading real books on Economics.
3. Be prepared to think.

Because...mediocrity is not our destiny.
And please, do not leave it to your neighbour or the next guy to sort things out for us.
Because, after all, for every other Indian, you are the neighbour, the next guy, the harbinger of change, a revolutionary in making.
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APM/ ShankhNaad

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