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aah, nice job, but i must say that this could have been a biased compliment. you always tend to like things that shape up your way, right? i can now remember a few words you used to say - people like those things that they wish to see happening and not what actually happens. i surely haven't portrayed it as rhetoric as it used to come out as your own words.
anyways, whatever, i find this article very much to be a true picture of what has really been witnessed for a long time now. i agree with each and every word of it. i wished to write a comment right away when i finished reading it i.e a couple of hours when it was actually posted. had i done that i would have missed the chance to comment on the comments then. and i found indi's one to attack at. but as i came down to your response to her comment, i found every single thing already answered the way i just thought it to. still there's one for her question:
C)whom are you taking a refrence nation to compare indian developement? USA? A more than 150 year old democracy with the recent indian one?

alright if you don't have a competitive approach towards things you can achieve in life, there's a not-so competitive analogy. take the case of China, india got independence in 1947 i.e to say india was free to do whatever it felt like after 1947. while China got its freedom only after 1950 which is 3 years from that of indian independence. now see where india stands in front of china even after more than what 60 years of INDEPENDENCE.
China hosted the olympic games quite competitively a while ago, while we can't think of it even 15 years from hence. ok leave olympics aside, we are even not sure as to what honor are we going to be conferred with hosting common wealth games this year. alright, let's leave these so much talked about things also. let's see how well are we doing otherwise. take the case of indian railways. can you give me a rough figure for the speed you think the fastest indian train would be running at??
it is trivendrum rajdhani at 162 km/hr. mind taking a look at the fastest chinese train-"Maglev", with a breathtaking whoosh, it rockets to 300 kilometers per hour in two minutes flat. touching 500 kmph in test runs this train touches 431 kmph as its top speed. and to your surprise i would here like to divulge the fact that even USA, a what like 150 year old democracy, as you pointed out, didn't match it any closer because this train happened to be the world's fastest at its launch in as early as 2002. i think i made my point clear of not comparing ourselves with someone but giving someone else a fanatic desire to match our records.
education in india is not left far behind. the indian institutes of technology, topmost engineering schools in india, start after the world rank of 40 with IIT kanpur to be at 42nd position. i.e the first in india is 42nd in the world. even after such a disruption our politicians, for the sake of their vote bank, are reluctant of waiving the quota system which works as a catalyst towards this disruption. according to you the solution is to come out of your luxury cars and resolve it on your own. let me remind you of what happened when lakhs of doctors turned out on roads demonstrating against the then education minister Honorable Mr. Arjun Singh to put an end to the rising quota. all in vain. nothing changed. i here find the lines from "rang de basanti" quite lively- kuch nahi ho sakta is desh ka. what are we proud of, is desh ki badhti population par ya yahan k corruption par. after all, yahi to wo fields hain jahan we top the charts.
and emerging to be called a developing nation with such a disruption at hand, at least i feel shameful rather than being proud of my nation. i feel like becoming a center of mockery with the spot light on us. on every 15th august and 26th january i wake up early in the morning to be the first to salute my country but to my disappointment i find not even a single thing to be proud of.
what exactly are we proud of, the chandrayaan completing its mission. technically it failed, but we tried to cover this blunder by the fact that it was a coup to have found water on moon's surface and most of us are more than happy with this. now that's something to be proud of.
abhinav bindra brought a gold to india's fame but how many of us know that he wasn't trained in india. india doesn't even have the rifles and shooting ranges he used to practice with. he had his private shooting range in his bungalow to practice which again was nothing indian. the only thing indian was his birth. but we can even cheer this by saying it was destined to happen so because we people are very optimistic and we have a "b positive" attitude right? what i think is this being positive attitude is hiding our shortcomings and craving for a better tomorrow with a limping leg.
ohh this is endless. i am so sorry for all this. probably, i shouldn't have written this here or anywhere else coz i know still is desh ka kuch nahi ho sakta.