INDIA. MY DREAMS

INDIA. MY DREAMS

I am proud to be an Indian and dream a lot for my beloved country. The first and foremost dream I have for India is to see her in category of most developed nations of this world. I dream of an India which is 100 per cent literate, where everyone is employed and there is absolutely no poverty. India has been a messenger of peace even in past as it was India that mooted the very idea of "Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam" (The entire world is my family). Hence, I wish India to play a leading role in establishing peace and tranquillity across the world, which is really the need of the hour. Finally, I wish India to become world's biggest economic power with a major role in world trade, and focus on technology advancements, and a big leap in infrastructure developments. I dream of a developed India that is free from illiteracy and poverty, an India where the gap between the rich and the poor is within acceptable limits, an India that realises it's a free domain, and an India that is free from corruption. But presently this is not happening at all. We are still apathetic to the needs of the poor man on roads. We still splurge money on our needs, while the underprivileged still struggle to get a day's meal. This apathy and obliviousness to all social evil takes us nowhere. If we have to achieve this dream then we have to act now to build an India in which today's underprivileged youth succeed tomorrow and contribute to the growth of tomorrow, and a country where every educated soul understands the importance of giving back what he has taken from the society. I no longer want India to be a superpower in the manner I wanted it to be when I was naive and without a broader perspective. I no longer want it to be another big and brawny US. I don't want it to be a superpower made up of just brains and brawn and all about GDP performance and military might. Rather and more pressingly, I want India to have a heart. Having a heart, unlike GDP growth and a military beef-up, does not just...

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