Is India ready for the primetime?
India will truly become a Global Power on the day
- when it is able to feed its every hungry stomach,
- when it is able to provide basic infrastructural facilities to its people,
- when it is able to address all health issues,
- when it is able to make its every single person literate,
- when it is able to provide happiness and long life to its citizens,
- when it is able to lift its poor out of poverty and bring prosperity to them,
- when it is able to provide security to its people and bring down the crime rate to almost negligible,
- when it is able to bring in gender equality and give respect to its women which it deserves,
- when it is able to provide equal opportunities to all its people,
- when it is truly able to reward merit,
- when the core issue of its politics is performance and effectiveness and not caste,
- when it is able to effectively respond to the natural calamities,
- when it is able to protect its environment and wildlife,
- when it is able to preserve and propagate its rich culture and values,
- when it is able to safeguard its legitimate national interest,
- when it is able to excel in sports in international arena,
- when it is able to make significant scientific contributions to world and lead in innovation and research,
- when it is able to act responsibly on the issue of ever deteriorating environment and global climate change,
- when it is able to make space for itself in international forums like WTO,WB,UNSC, etc..,
- when it is able to establish trade relations with most other countries,
- when it can turn Balance of Payment in its favor,
- when it is able to help other countries in addressing their internal political, social and economical problems,
- when it is able to support and safeguard weaker countries against other powerful aggressive counries,
- when it is able to safeguard human rights both at the domestic and at international level,
- when its authority comes not from flexing its muscles but by making contributions which others value,
- when it is able to lead the wolrd in peaceful co-existence, mutual respect, non-interference and nuclear disarmament.
- when it is able to establish itself as a responsible, peace-loving democracy.
5 comments:
Well written and compiled in a great order Prankur
One minor suggestion
The post would have a better reading experience if you put all of them as bullets or points ! (Starting with - When it is able to)
One curious question
How do you think any of the things you mentioned can be accomplished? Where do you think it should start?
hmm..i liked the post.You have rightly highlighted the idea of "With great power comes great responsibility" by cleverly listing out what it will entail to becoming a superpower. Yeah, balance is the word. Balancing aspirations against needs of Indian masses. Fulfillment of needs of Indian people (inclusive growth) will launch us into the stellar league of nations. But the true test of our achievements will be how best we balance our economic indicators against human prosperity index..
P.S. that's all a naive's mind could conjure up!
hmm..i liked the post.You have rightly highlighted the idea of "With great power comes great responsibility" by cleverly listing out what it will entail to becoming a superpower. Yeah, balance is the word. Balancing aspirations against needs of Indian masses. Fulfillment of needs of Indian people (inclusive growth) will launch us into the stellar league of nations. But the true test of our achievements will be how best we balance our economic indicators against human prosperity index..
P.S. that's all a naive's mind could conjure up!
@Murali: All that is required to accomplish all these things is few self-motivated individuals who have the ability and determination to motivate thousands more to develop courage and the spirit to initiate the changes that they wish to see. The land has to be conquered inch-by-inch and the contribution of every single soul will be counted. It should start from us. Unjust things and ideas should opposed and the good things should be propagated.
@hema: When India will become a superpower then the most important thing is that it should leave thinking about its own people only. It is the only thing which will distinguish India from the super powers of contemporary and the past world. 'VASUDEV KUTUMB'- in which India and its people have believed from thousands of years should be propagated. It need to conqueror the world, not from its weapons but from its ideas and knowledge. It should be a country which stands for peace, democracy and for the freedom of others.
Economic indicators are just numbers and numbers are always deceptive.
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