Is there no hope for India to become a great nation?
Well, actually there is. India can be a great nation IF:
- We talk less of freedoms and more about our responsibilities towards the nation.
- We stop looking at the interests of the small rich minority and look at the interests of the poor.
- Our people become less selfish about themselves and START to think about the nation.
- We do something about our abysmally poor infrastructure.
- We instil discipline in our people especially those who are our netas (leaders). Right now we rank with de most indisciplined.
- We take ourselves more seriously whilst asking this of US and the rest of the world.
- We get rid of such individual and collective amnesia. We forget all - including severe insults to nation.
- We have the courage and good sense to call to task both these so called "public servants".
- Our institutions will work for everyone and not for just for the favoured few.
- Our justice system improves and it does not take decades to decide even the most ordinary cases.
- We behave like a nation and not parochially like states, castes, communities and provinces.
- We take our neighbours along the path of progress. We cannot be lotus in filth around us.
- We revere our scientists, teachers, jawans (soldiers), doctors and engineers more than Bollywood stars, godmen and netas (politicians).
- We stop defecating, spitting and urinating at public places and keep our places clean.
- We curb our littering habits and do away with the filth that adorns our cities, towns and villages.
- We have proper road signs rather than asking hundreds of people how to reach your destination. Right now it is a nightmare.
- The police in our country becomes less corrupt and people repose faith and trust in it.
- Our fierce religiosity is replaced by kindness and love and respect for all irrespective of caste, colour and creed.
- Movies like 'Slumdog Millionaire' fill us with resolve to change our lot rather than bask in glory.
- We spend less time on planning and more on implementation.
- We think of India all the while and not just in the last over of a twenty-20 match.
- We do not try to make money for ourselves even in disasters and calamities.
- We are in as much hurry to do things for de nation as in getting out cell phones in just landed aircraft.
- We ban criminals from entering politics; if we have minimum acceptable standards for netas (politicians) as we have for other professions.
- Our intellectuals take up people's issues rather than only those that earn them popularity.
- We stop depending on America to sort out problems caused by Pak terrorism.
- Our transportation improves and becomes people friendly.
- The costs of our constructions come down and quality goes up. Presently, it is the other way round.
- We understand other people's privacy whilst partying and participating in religious processions.
- Whilst running after modernisation we do not forget our ancient culture and values.
- We do not beg the world on our knees to be given a seat in UN Security Council but prove ourselves worthy.
- We do away the lengthy process of compiling and writing Inquiry Reports but do something, however little.
- We give more impetus to shipping, fishing and other maritime activities that languish in comparison to land based activities.
- We improve tourism and make our places more attractive to foreigners as compared to the present punishment for them.
- Rains and other natural phenomena do not make life come to a standstill even in our major cities.
- Even if 5 % of promises of politicians before elections had come true India would have become the best in the world.
- Men of character join politics and think of nation first and themselves last.
To be continued.......
Agree with every word of it.Very thoughtfully written.
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