A New Dawn at 70? Wake Up, India!
If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.
'From A 'New India' Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): India Rises! An amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty ushers India's New Dawn.
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Most certainly India has the resources and talents to become a truly modern, developed nation. What has held her back for 70 years? When will she wake up to see her true potential? Can drifting day to day on the whims of pettiness lift any country to the heights? The answer of
course is: ' No!' What has held India back so far? First, divisiveness among the people - by language, region, caste, creed etc. And the tendency to celebrate imaginary success. And the inclination to take advantage of others for selfish benefit. To this day in parts of the country obsolete practices like child marriage continue. So does 'dowry' harassment, driving so many wives to suicide. Even the educated fail to question their attitudes, however illogical or harsh. The
latest Walk Free Foundation report again underlines democracy's failure to progress in decades of freedom. India tops the report's Global Slavery Index. Of a 2.2 billion
population,
18.3 million citizens are subjected to
varied kinds of exploitation and cruelty. Worst affected are children, women and low
castes. No wonder the Human Development Index of UNDP ranks India 130th among 185 countries of the world.
Today those who have the means assume that malls, foreign cars, power motor-bikes, high-rises and mobiles have already elevated India to a high level of development. They are India's foremost non-official braggers - their priority pastime is showing off their big acquisitions, ignoring the many citizens whose daily concerns are food and survival. Bragging only helps India pretend she's developing. Think of the way Japan rose after WWII. Not a word of self-praise or propaganda. In just 10 years it was left to the world to realize how much Japan had achieved The big 'talkers' are usually not 'doers.'
Today those who have the means assume that malls, foreign cars, power motor-bikes, high-rises and mobiles have already elevated India to a high level of development. They are India's foremost non-official braggers - their priority pastime is showing off their big acquisitions, ignoring the many citizens whose daily concerns are food and survival. Bragging only helps India pretend she's developing. Think of the way Japan rose after WWII. Not a word of self-praise or propaganda. In just 10 years it was left to the world to realize how much Japan had achieved The big 'talkers' are usually not 'doers.'
No amount of self-praise, sloganeering or propaganda will lift India to the heights. Real development requires a change of attitudes, expert planning and hard work. India will rise as a developed democracy if her people come together as equals, a country whose people feel and care for each other. It needs serious introspection. A great 'change of heart.' It's the only way.
That One Way will surely take India to a new dawn. To elite nationhood.
That way is a street called CARING HEART STREET.
