Is this how one should best describe India? There is so much optimism that a giant has finally woken up and in the process improve the lives of millions of its children. But the politicians of the country don't care. It's the divide-and -rule policy that continues and only the ruler has changed. The latest row about reservations is in the 'three step back' mode.
Yesterday, in class there was a discussion on the corelation between democracy and prosperity as measured as GDP per capita. There seemed to a fair corelation in most of the world. The outliers were - Singapore, Hong Kong , UAE on the upside. But the loner exception on the downside was India. It pains when you see that everwhere else where there is freedom and democracy, there is prosperity - but not in my beloved country.
Theories to explain the anomaly? May be culturally, we never wanted to improve. May be we are just not ambitious enough a people! The other theory can be that inequality has been created as a result of the caste system. That people have been suppressed for centuries and this is the way they think of life! Whatever the explanation, I would really like to see us go with the rest of the world and converge to the line of corelation. I really wish it does ...
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