Views verbatim, edited slightly

'India needs a good leader with a vision for the future'

Name:Ritesh
Email:ritesh.sinha@target.com
Message:So far, India has been tortured, humiliated, and neglected not by any one else, but by its own leaders. In order to make it to a better spot, the first and foremost thing would be take a strong check on the population, which when controlled or brought down, would help in every aspect. If we succeed in doing so, we would come up so well, that I dont see anyone close to India in the next 50 years, going by the quality of people it produces.

Name:Sumant Joshi
Email:sumant.joshi@mailcity.com
Message:We need to throw away complacency, double standards, delink politics from religion and crime , demolish corruption everywhere , think globally in every matter, imbibe professionalism to every office / organisation , strive hard to keep our value system , cultural enrichness intact , mandatory military training to every one and solving all border related problems , reducing defence budgets in that process and using that in research and developement, so that we can think about becoming a developed nation and a leader in every aspects .

Name:Joyojeet Pal
Email:joyojeet@hotmail.com
Message:There is nothing for our nation to be proud of. Whatever nation-building we pride ourselves on is the work of a few visionaries, more so a petty handful that has actually done its job. What we are actually left with now are the spinless types of Ashok Singhal who have all the courage to oppose free speech when it comes to things that are of no direct influence to vote banks, in all other senses, we have reduced Hinduism to standing behind a pathetic farce of cowardly nationalism. How come these beggars aren't shouting slogans about a uniform civil code anymore. Where are these frontrunners of our national pride when it comes to issues of population control, when it is clouded by religious freedom? Where is one speck of accountability of the Indian bureaucrat? Who cares? When someone like Mulayam SIngh can sit atop "secular" votes, calling himself a friend of the Muslims, inasmuch pandering to every sectarian claim that can be staked, and where is Vajpayee, our new upholder of the Indian nation? Grinning for cameras at Mulayam's progeny's wedding... Pakistan has done itself a great favour in turning to military dictatorship. I begin to think we need one too... India is a democracy, and the biggest abuser of a democracy. India has never had law and order, accountability or a common shade of decency in the people who rule its unfortunate billion.

Name:shersingh nim
Email:ssnim399@rediff.com
Message:achievments-self reliance in food grains,adopted improved technology in all fields. aspirations-should be a superpower like china. failures-could not be solved the boundary problem with pak and china.still a poor country.having maximum illiterates,poors,in the world.low per capita income.low gdp growth rate.could not curb on corrupion in public life. measures-an honest,efficient,govt.is needed to do needful. planning- per capita income increament should be top priority. reforms- in judiciary&police ,in public servant's life,in political class. direction- super duper power of world. destination- in cat-1 in universe.

Name:tushar
Email:tv_21@rediffmail.com
Message:lets make another "united states", the "united states of india".

Name:G.Ragavan
Email:g.ragavan@bplmail.com
Message:We have done lot but, not sufficient. Only think that'll lead India to glory is non corrupt and able politicions without any bias.

Name:K Manjunath
Email:manjunathatpp@rediffmail.com
Message:One way to learn is to start laughing at our selves. Printed on a car back in Bombay: "Sou me nabbe be-iman phir bhi Bharat mera mahan" If you have any better ones than above to sum up the state of our nation after 50 years of independence / republic pl. mail to : manjunathatpp@rediffmail.com thanks.

Name:Balaji Ramaswamy
Email:balaji_rams@yahoo.com
Message:India should aspire for FREEDOM : Should not bow down to pressure from any quarters or countries DEVELOPMENT : In all respects. Ofcourse, this can only be achieved if corruption is tackled STRENGTH : Both Economic as well as Military. Only Strength respects Strength. Let's strive together to make a better India. Jai Hind

Name:Srinivas
Email:grsrini@rocketmail.com
Message:First and foremost,there must be a policy so that everybody gets social security from the government in the same way as is done in the west.A part of the salary is deducted to provide benefits after retirement.This should be done to every earning member be it in the private/government agencies.Only then will people feel secure to spend money to help the economy to move since they will be sure to have a comfortable life later in their retirement age. This will also eradicate reservation etc since everybody is sure to get benefits at the end of their term. Everybody must be made to work in a government organisation for at short period so that he/she too knows what are the rules/regulations and can question/be questioned by another person since he too would have worked in the government one day or the other This will completely remove the quota system and nobody can take anyone for a ride since everybody is aware of the rules. The above points are just ideas but could be more refined so that it can be implemented properly. Regards Srinivas

Name:Jagannath Gadiraju
Email:gjnath@hotmail.com
Message:We are a nation brainwashed to live in the glory of the past. What about the present and the future? We have unsuccesfully experimented with a socialist model in the past. While Privitisation is no guarantee for a healthy tommorow, it has proved to be far more succesful in increasing productivity and creation of wealth. The Infrastructure sectors made to rot under the past policies have to undergo a sea change. We can easily adopt succesful models of implementation from other countries. Privitisation in areas like telecom, power,energy,transport,ports etc will see an improved climate. Subsidies should be out. These schemes are taken for granted and often misused. If we can create a good environment in IT, why not in other sectors. The 'feel good factor' itself motivates people to implement ideas that can be materialised into packaged products. Let us all work (not pray) for an India which is in the forefront of all technology areas. We should strive to be a knowledge based economy. Its high time we give our share of inputs to the world economy. Best Wishes Jagannath Gadiraju

Name:SIDGOO
Email:sidgoo@hotmail.com
Message:India is a like a goddess. It can survive any upheaval any humiliation, any win and any loss. There is only one option left for the People of India to make this country a super power, and that is a civil war, revolution against the meek, the corrupt, the traitors, the terrorists, and the hypocrites. Kill them and liberate India from this fear-psychosis and persecution complex. We must not be merciful with the enemy. We must be aggressive. But can we do it?

Name:Bijul Balakrishnan
Email:jultha@hotmail.com
Message: JUST CONTROL THE POPULATION AND HALF THE PROBLEMS FACING INDIA WILL BE SOLVED.

ALL INDIANS AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY SHOULD MAKE A CONCENTRATED EFFORT TO STEM THIS COLLOSAL PROBLEM WITH SOME RADICAL POLICIES FROM THE GOVERMENT CUTTING ACCROSS ALL POLITICAL LINES. ONLY THIS WILL LEAD INDIA OUT OF ALL MISERIES.

Name:sachidev kumar c
Email:sachidev@onebox.com
Message:I dream India will come of age in the next five years where: a)education will be made compulsory - to teach and learn. govt. will have the mechanism to put it place. b)franchise is revamped with only the educated getting the right to vote. parallelly make the villages educated too. c)strictest norms for electoral candidates. criminals must be first put in jail and then choose from the rest. with them around nothing good can take place. d)protect the girl child all over india and make any ill treatment punishable with huge publicity and humiliation. e)Make it compulsory for every person who earns beyond the second level of taxation contribute 5% of his annual income for the poor. I am sure the rest have the rest of what i have to say.

Name:Rishi Mathur
Email:rishimathur@usa.net
Message:i think that as we see india thru your persspective, it paints a very grim & grey picture of the republic. whatever's happened or happening is a learning process. the mellinium belongs to us.

Name:Roshan
Email:rdlima@usa.net
Message:Since independence, India has achieved a great deal of progress in some areas and yes, we are proud of those. But these achievements have always been accidental and were never strategically planned(either short-term or long-term)and implemented (for e.g. self-sufficiency in food). And if India is in today's situation where internally it is facing a Population, Corruption, Unemployment, Aids explosion (the reasons for most of our problems) and externally, struggling to save its' face in every case/issue (except to harp on the fact that we are the largest democracy of the world); it is because the successive governments of India for 50 years completely ignored the most basic and important question of Education and Health. We have every resource at our disposal (ours is not a poor country)including the necessary laws, but if the people are not educated enough to fight for their rights and the corrupt politicians/governments, another 50 years from now, we will be where we are today or in a worse situation.

Name:Anupam Saxena
Email:anupam_saxena@hotmail.com
Message:for country to be world leader the need of the hour is weed out corruption and do away with anachronous ideologies.

Name:Naveen Bothra
Email:bothra@its.soft.net
Message:We can fight corruption by making information available to the general public. We can go for booklets which explains the process and procedures for every job like taking license for 2 wheelers, getting ration card... etc. Such booklets should be readily available in front of the respective offices. Such small steps can be a big help to general public.

Name:SRINIVASA RAO GUTTULA
Email:srguttla@yahoo.com
Message:Hi , I cannot say anything in words about my motherland India. I love India. I like my mother land. Thanks, -Srinivas

Name:Rajeev.K
Email:rajlai@yahoo.com.sg.
Message:Firstly, I think India needs a good leader with a vision for the future, let it be even if that person is communist. Secondly,Indian must embrace unity of what we lack. That what all India needs to propel itself to prosperity and strength.

Name:Trupti
Email:truptee@hotmail.com
Message:I'll tell u what we have achieved?? For the starters.. we have achieved ignorance.. maybe coz it's suppossed to be called "Bliss"?? We have achieved Freedom...from other's miseries... and pains! We have achieved peace..only for "our" heart.. who cares whether the neighbour is alive,.. being killed at this moment..or dead?? We have achieved fascination... for the west.. and HERE we have gone out of our ways.. to adopt the lifestyles.. and mindsets.. of the westerners.. conveniently! We have achieved hatred... for people who live beyond poverty line.. and who are under- priviledged.. Certainly Sir! We have achieved Love For Music... Let the world.. and India.. above all go to hell! And finally this best achivement ever... "I CARE A DAMN"!!! So WHY CARE??? Right folks? Think! Is chatting, music, on-line or off line romance, contests.. and competitive exams.. all that's left of our lives?? Think... how many people are denied, not this.. but the basic rights to a livable surroundings... and where we are today? What's the distinction between us and animals if all we are doing is think about OUR Well being, OUR happiness, OUR satisfaction, OUR progress, OUR peace of mind and only OUR life?? Think…pleeeeease…before it's too late!

Name:KRS Prasanna
Email:krs_prasanna@yahoo.com
Message:What shall I say about my dream on India ? Shall I say every child should get two times a meal properly ? Shall I say a child gets to receive atleast a proper school without being working as a waiter in the restaurant ? Shall I say say the mother walking in the traffic light with two children in her arms will not be alofing anymore but will be in a secured home with a good sleep and a proper job ? Shall I think of those crammed highways taking 120 minutes to cross 30 kilometers can be reversed ? Shall I dream of that day where I will be respected for my rupee as a customer to the vendor than vendor's non-service ? Shall I dream where hindu will not be a hindu , muslim is not a muslim , christian is not a christian but be the children of Great Indian Soil ? Shall I dream of that day where I see positive development rather than mere political development ? Shall I dream that every citizen of India thinks, feels and be proud that he is an Indian citizen who has an unparalled wealth called "independence" which our forefathers gave us with their blood ? I have many dreams but do you think dream can come out of dream ?

Name:govinda rao tandyala
Email:govinda_t@yahoo.com
Message:Hi There, Let us make india a strong ,prosperous democratic nation,where we can chreish our dreams and wishes.

Name:Col J Chanda
Email:jaycee@cal2.vsnl.net.in
Message:India has achieved a lot. It has managed to stay a republic; it has achieved a fairly reasonable state of economy ; It should aspire for total economic independence, environmental upliftment and equitable distribution of wealth. Biggest failures - population control and corruption and to reinforce and strengthen the existing constitution, equal opportunity for all instead of quota systems.

Name:Nitin N
Email:nosty2@yahoo.com
Message:India has only two options in the 21st century. One is to fulfill CIA's predictions of India either dividing into nation-states or plunging into civil war. The second is a bit more hopeful. It is possible that all of us who are tired of dirty politics would elect new leaders like Chandrababu Naidu and work to transform the society.

Name:Kavitha
Email:a_kavitha@hotmail.com
Message:India has achieved a lot in 50 years but could have achieved a lot more if things were systematic. These are some of the things India can do to improve: 1. Kids in Government schools should be treated with respect and taught to study properly. Afterall they do not have educated parents guidance. Teachers should be evaluated every 6 months and based on that they can be promoted or dismissed. Kids are the future. 2. There should be a common law for all people. No seperate for different religions. Why should the government be ruled by religion. Democracy and equal laws should rule all people. 3. All citizens who make money should be taxed. Agriculrists should be taxed if their income is above the taxable income limit. Free electricity should be abolished. 4. Curruption should be nipped at the stem. There should be TV programs which show the different and common forms of corruption which everyone does and so it does not seem like corrution. If caught what punishments they can expect. Corrupt officials and citizens should be dealt with very harshly and should be openly shown on TV etc. All Politicians and Income tax officials should release their net worth at the time of joining and should be evaluated every 5 years to see if there is an inordinate increase. 5. People should be made to feel more resposible for their surroundings and other poor people. Peoples inhibitions on adoption should change and it must be made more acceptable again through TV programs. 6. The film stars with their sway on the masses should put their fame to good causes like speaking for adoption, against corruption and involving themselves in charity and public service. Because of their fame other people will emulate these stars. 7. Capital punishments like death by electric chair or lethal injections should be put to use to get rid of terrorists. Tax payer money should not support terrorists food and stay in jails. 8. TV programs should continuously show the positive aspects of India. Indian discoveries, Inventions and success stories should be played out so that Indians can feel proud to be an Indian. 9. Politicians who are tried for corrution should not be allowed to run for public office. Why should we let a guilty thief be incharge of our money. 10. People who convert and still use the SC/ST quota or who illegally acquire and use such certificates should be prosecuted. All government offices, colleges, schools should have places where people can anonymously report such people and immediate action should be taken to punish these cheaters. 11. Hinduism is the greatest religion and people should be proud to be Hindus. Yoga and meditation should be taught in schools. The Christianization of India should stop. Again more TV programs should be made to show the ways and tricks that they resort to convert a person. These are all my suggestions from the things that I have come accross in my 28 years life.

Name:raghu.rao
Email:raghavendra_raghu@yahoo.com
Message:Population control,two party system, and amend the constitution to achive being a proud indian.

Name:P. N. Rao
Email:pnrao@hotmail.com
Message:For India to progress it is important to have more leaders like Naidu and Krishna and less (if not none) like Laloo Yadav and Jayalalitha.

Name:Umesh Deshpande
Email:udeshpan@yahoo.com
Message:Hi I LOVE INDIA. Right now I am in US working as software engg. When I see comfort over here I feel every person in INDIA SHOULD HAVE SUCH COMFORTABLE LIFE AND THAT IS POSSIBLE ONLY IF WE HAVE GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE AND LESS CORRUPTION. we SHOULD HAVE STRICT LAWS FOR CORRUPTION AND ALSO NETWORKS OF GOOD ROADS AND TELEPHONE LINES TO HAVE GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE.

Name:leo fernandes
Email:fernandesleo@yahoo.com
Message:INDIA HAS PROGRESSED CONSIDERABLY BEING A NUCLEAR POWER, BUT MUCH HAS TO BE DONE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WORK IN UNISON. CORRUPTION IS THE MAIN THORN BY POLITICIANS WHICH SHOULD BE CURTAILED.LAWS SHOULD BE STRICT. POWER HUNGRY POLITICIANS SHOULD BE BARRED. ONLY I THINK KARNATAKA AND HYDERABAD CITIES WILL EMERGED AS SATELLITE TOWNS.KERALA AND GOA SHOULD STRIVE FOR TOURISM AND INDUSTRIES. POWER OF POLITICIANS,SECURITY,AND OHTER SHOULD BE ONUS ON THEM. ALL SHOULD WORK IN UNISON IS MY MESSAGE. LIKE WE DID DURING THE WARS WITH PAKIS.

Name:Nitin Gokhale
Email:nitmanj@aol.com
Message:There was some progress in last 50 yrs. But it was highly insufficient. what should we do now ? 1. Deal with terrorist and anti-Indian activists very strongly. Make a different law to punish them severely. 2. Remove most of subsidies on different products unless very very essential 3. Try to find out alternate sources of power and increase research on that. 4. Punish corrupt people and stop transfers of able IAS officers. 5. Bring in common civil code. 6. Dont ignore armed forces. 7.Deal very strongly with troubling neighbours. 8. Improve marketing of Indian products and quality assurance 9. Keep pollution of big cities under control. Execute strict laws to prevent vehicle pollution

Name:Rajesh
Email:
Message:An India whose citizens would be free from prejudices based on relegion, caste, gender, occupation, wealth and personal choices. An Inida where every child has a chance to dream and the opportunity to atleast try to make it come true. An India with no corruption, crime or gundaism. An India where people are just plain human rather than animals. Dream on.........

Name:Pani Harish
Email:h_pani@yahoo.com
Message:My Vision for India - 2050 A.D. India is a Country which is self - sufficient and attracts serenity. Literacy is widespread. Responsibility of India`s Progress,austerity should belong to every Indian. Ability of living in Diversity of Languages, Cultures should teach us tolerance and one of our strengths. Indians "do-it". Jai-Hind

Name:Narasimhan
Email:narasimhan_aji@usa.net
Message:For name sake INDIA is Independent and Repablic. As a young software engineer I feel very sorry for the status INDIA which commands in western world. Even though western world is dependent on Talented INDIAN who working under their BOSS. Credits goes to westren world BOSS. I wish my INDIA should become corrupt free ( atleast to perform their duty ), Environment concious ( make dust free, polutionfree nation ). Reservation on the basis of caste should be removed. Reservation can be given on economically weaker section to get education only. No job reservation. Make every one litrate. Remove the voting symbol only candidate name should be printed on ballot paper so that politician atomatically make every one litrate. Hang the corrupt politicians who looted india. If every thing happens all TALENTED INDIAN in abroad will retrun and INDIA can give loans to westren world including USA

Name:Shuvo Datta
Email:duttaworld@yahoo.com
Message: Food, clothing, water, education, medication for EVERYODY in the country!

Name:Samarjit D. Neog
Email:neogsd@bharatpetroleum.com
Message:I long for the day when my India will be a truly independent nation in all respect, free of the prevailing discrimination amongst the people living in here, and when all Indians identify themselves as Indians first rather than Hindus / Muslims / Sikhs etc.. We live in a country where it is very easy to blame the politicians and very difficult to take the job in your own hands. A nation of armchair patiots is what we are at most times. Education is the key to all our present problems including population explotion, and i hope we acheive cent percent literacy soon in order to set our own house right. Thank You.

Name:Srinivas
Email:srinivas_mokkarala@yahoo.com
Message:India has been on a very rapid decline. It is not respected in the world, its GDP/GNP are shameful, its R&D base is laughable as are several of its policies. 1947 was a good start. That has been squandered away. History shows us that we've been a slave country for a major portion of our existence. That means that we can't govern ourselves. The majority of the people in india are sheep. Such a fine form of democracy is not for a country until more than 90% of its population is educated. Educated about the lack of leadership that has impoverished the nation except for a flash in the pan here and there. In my view the following measures may help: (1) Liberalize labour laws. Allow enterprises to hire and fire at will. Remember, this is one of the factors that makes the USA such a power. (2) Every corporation must generate its revenue and only then spend it. As it may wish! (3) Provide tax benefit for all donations to research facilities. (4) Pay university teaching professionals for 9 months in a year. Allow them to seek projects from the outside and funds to implement these projects. This will boost R&D overnight. (5) Make law and order effective and universal. If a crime is committed, punish the wrong doers quickly. The judicial process must be faster. (6) Remove the reservation system everywhere. Let merit emerge from the ashes of a burnt India. Provide visionary policies whereby corporations can setup/fund institutes that can provide coaching facilities to the lower income groups. Provide extra benefits to institutes operating in mufsil/rural areas. (7) Reduce income tax. Increase tax on sales. (8) Assign a number to every Indian. (9) Provide basic facilities such as clean water and good quality air to breathe to all citizens. Believe me these commodities are in short supply! (10) Enact policies and laws that allow free enterprose to flourish. Encourage innovation. Guard against malpractices and duping customers. Set a strict precedent. (11) Increase defence spending. Most people around the world know that India has been barking but can't bite. Statements such as "..India warns Pakistan of cross border terrorism..." are sick and routine. If India knows, destroy the camps. Let its diplomats explain to the world. It is a weak state. Today. Unfortunately. Poverty can't be eradicated by providing sops. Let citizens work for even the slightest little benefit. The concept of work and reward is mostly missing in its ever sick public enterprise. Introduce computerization in a big way in government. It'll help in better management of the country. During the Emergency, the common man was happy with punctual trains, efficient police, rationing etc. It means that India will be better with firm and effective policies. Give Indians a chance to be Indians by mingling into the main stream. The present policies are dividing them further. -Srinivas

Name:Prity
Email:prity_gupta@hotmail.com
Message:We should, absorb the technologies of advanced countries and explore our very own culture, both to their fullest. Today and forever. With the burning motto of leading the world in both the spheres, very soon.

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Name:O Hindu
Email:
Message: The West has lost the truth. We have lost the Great Sense, the meaning of our evolution, of why so much suffering, why dying, why getting born, why this earth, who are we, what is the soul, what is reincarnation, where is the ultimate truth about the universe... But India has kept this truth. India has preserved it through seven millennium of pitfalls, of genocides and attempts at throttling her Sanatan Dharma. And this will be India's gift to this planet during the next century: to restore to the world its true sense. to recharge humanity with the real meaning and spirit of life. India will become the spiritual leader of the world, as India's Great Sage, Sri Aurobindo, had predicted nearly a century ago : "It is this religion that I am raising-up before the world, it is this that I have perfected and developed through the Rishis, saints, and Avatars, and now it is going forth to do my work among the nations. I am raising forth this nation to send forth my word...When therefore it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall rise, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall be great. When it is said that India shall expand and extend herself, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall expand and extend itself over the world. It is for the Dharma and by the Dharma that India exists". (India's Rebirth. p. 46 -Uttara speech) And one is tempted to shout in the ears of all those "secular", cynical, westernised, Indians of today, the eternal mantra: "Rise up, O India of the Vedic ages. Thou livest in the hearts of all thy people. Rise up O Westernised "secular" India, because thou art also the true India. Realise in your hearts the genius of the country which is yours. Stop comparing it to a civilisation, which is crumbling and cease equating it with parameters that are not hers. Wake up to the greatness of thy country. Not only the past greatness, which thou seekest to repossess in its music or in its temples, but the greatness that IS, there, waiting to be grasped again, waiting to be brought down concretely. Rise up O India, to the greatness that IS in you. Rise up O true India". Ah, we are coming back again full circle to the wonder that WAS India, the India of the Vedas and the Upanishad, which A.L. Basham, the best-selling author of "The Wonder That Was India", criticised as being militant and politically disunited. But the truth was that they were united in their diversity, that it was much more democratic and allowed much more freeplay and freedom, individually and collectively, than the India of today allows. Let us again reread history, let us look at India, not through the Western prism, but with the ancient wisdom that She has bestowed upon us. For indeed, this is one of the most amazing paradoxes of today's world: here you have a country, India, which rates today as one of the poorest on this planet, which is disregarded by most Western nations (and many of its own people), as irrelevant, backward, too bureaucratic - and lately, as a hotbed of Hindu fundamentalism. Yet, India holds the key to the world's future. For India is the only nation which still preserves in the darkness of Her Himalayan caves, on the luminous ghats of Benares, in the hearts of her countless yogis, or even in the minds of her ordinary folk, the key to the planetary evolution, its future and its hope. This knowledge which once roamed the shores of the world from Egypt to China, is today lost everywhere. Europe has now entered a turbulent Age; it will take a long time before it unites in spite of the near uniformity of its races and religions. The West, in its thirst for materialism, does not know anymore where it stands and has lost this precious knowledge, which India still holds, alone in the world. The 21st century then, will be the era of the East; this is where the sun is going to rise again, after centuries of decadence and submission to Western colonialism; this is where the focus of the world is going to shift. And as when India used to shine and send forth Her Dharma all over the Orient: Japan, Thailand, China, Burma, or Cambodia and influence their civilisations and religions for centuries to come, once more She will emit Her light and radiate, Queen among nations: "India of the ages is not dead nor has She spoken Her last creative word; She lives and has still something to do for Herself and the human peoples. And that which She must seek now to awake, is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the Occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorial Shakti recovering Her deepest self, lifting Her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and vaster form of Her Dharma." (Sri Aurobindo). But for that India has to succeed in her attempt to liberalise her economy, it has to learn to decentralise the heavy hand of its Government in Delhi, it has to rewrite its Constitution, which it adapted blindly from the British, it has to re-indianise her education methods, reform her political system, which has made a mockery of democracy… In one word, She has to become a superpower on par with any European nation. Then, when it will have the respect and the attention of the West, can Her message of spirituality and the ancient wisdom of Sanatan Dharma, once again shine forth and bring down a New World to this beleaguered planet, which is on the bring of self-destruction.

Name:Gurpal Singh Atwal
Email:gurpal@atwal.org
Message:the one thing that holds India back is the lack of a quality comprehensive education that is free and compulsory to A-Level standard (university entrance). A mass educated population would be substantially more demanding of our politicians and most unlikely to entertain the excesses of our current shower of crooks masquerading as politicians. Just look at the educated middle classes and the Indians living abroad; so why shouldn't all Indians benefit? I am a cynic and believe that this would not be in the interests of our politicians...after all they are mere politicians not statesmen!An educated populace would also reduce the birthrate and, perhaps, bring sporting glory to India.