There was an advertisement on television where an energetic old man effortlessly runs and catches a bus, making a lady exclaim: “60 साल के बूढ़े या 60 साल के जवान (60 years old or 60 years young )”?
Replace the man with India and you will love the words, even if they had failed to attract you then.
The general debate might hang on the point that INDIA is now 63 years old grumpy uncle and its time to sum up the life lived, But I beg to differ , while most of us are tagged as senior citizen at 63 , it doesn’t even remotely apply to countries. I think the age of a country best measured in decades or centuries. In those terms a 6 decade old country is a child who has learned to express herself in a chaotic world, which has had enough of baby steps and now ready to take giant strides. Today India is a young and ‘ raring to go ‘ nation like never before.
We have taken firm steps into every conceivable arena and have proved that we are champion gladiators.After all, how would you describe a journey from a country being called a land of Snake charmers to a nation which houses the world’s largest democracy, produces the world’s cheapest car, is the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world, 3 of whome people are among world’s 10 richest people and the list is endless.
India with its young citizen is a youngster when compared to many other countries . Not a single country has ever performed so well at such a young age like INDIA. If talking of USA do not forget it took them more than 300 years from independence to get to where they are now and we took only 60 years to deliver.
Another remarkeble and youthfull aspect of INDIA is the individual creative geniusness. We are leaders in IT, doing well in Retail and Real Estate, biggest consumer market in the world, and most importantly India has been a role model for multi-cultural democracy. Today world loks at India as a super power. Every move that India makes is watched keenly and be followed.
But still the general comments tended to broader on the reasons why we must be ashamed of ourselves. They all seemed obsessed with the long meandearing cues, blaring horns, habit of spitting everywhere except the spitoons, alarming crime rate, corruption, inflation and the list seems endless. Accepted there is disgusting filth and squalor in our environment but not all countries are perfect उसे पर्फेक्ट बनाना पड़ता है
(we have to make it perfect).
For all those sceptics who still have a list of all that is still undone and tottering let me go on a bit more. Agreed that there is still a lot to be done, but the efforts are commendeble. What do you applaud something that is alredy existing or the level of productive effort. It is insane to applaud a 4th or 5th PC in an American home. This applause should be for the first PC in an INDIAN village.
India is fortunate to have 600 million youth out of a billion people. We are doing very well and time has come now for us to make our country righteous. Rightousness comes out of good character, evolution of good character leads to harmony and harmony brings the people to become enlighten citizen and enlighten citizens lead the planet earth to a perfect world.
