THE COUNTRY THAT NEVER CAME TO BE(Part-2)

The above 2 posts were part of a set of ideas and thoughts that i had jotted down in a particular sequence which will continue...

But this post is just an update, a minor tweak if u may; on the previous posts, as I have been readin, listening and watchin a lot of stuff. And this post basically updates my views, the changes in them for the time being at least....

In the previous post I said that a lot of our country's shortcomings was due to the bad attitude that our middle class and the inactivity of our general public to do anything for their own betterment(community i mean, not personal betterment; that everyone of us is very good at). 

Well, that is a incomplete explanation. 

Actually I could also say, the mistake is not ours, not completely atleast; it also our leaders. Our leaders were very xenophobic, and over-nationalistic until the late 1980s and the 1990s when reforms actually kicked in. In the span of the 40 years from 1947 to 1987, we fought 2 wars with Pakistan, turned down an invitation to play in th football World cup, surprised ourselves by winning the cricket workd cup of 83, conducted nuclear tests by which we got ourself banned from obtaining further nuclear technology, were the among the founding members of the UN, the NAM, the ADB and the G20 industrial nations and the list goes on. Yet, when it came to quick development we did nothing. For all the things Jawarlal Nehru was famous for, he was a slightly xenophobic person when it came to giving out tenders of development projects to international firms. Thus slowing down the process.

Nehruvian politics slowed us down to a massive extent in various areas like power generation, foreign relations with the developed powers(which was both a good and bad decision, coz that issue has multiple angles one has to worry about), the industrial and green revolutions, education etc.

In 1947, when India got independence, we were far ahead of China in every aspect. Forget 1947, even after 1960s after mao Zedong had died, India was comfortably ahead in almost all major development fields. Yet now, when we compare India with China, our country has fallen behind China in a majority of the development aspects.

 The main difference??

China, after the death of Mao Zedong in the 1960s implemented a lot of economic reforms, and further relaxation the communist stae came through reforms in 1978 which led to the current state China is in. While India had to wait till the late 80s to see those same reforms which opened up our markets to the world.

Forget our economy, our country which boasts of a billion people can barely muster 3 medals in the olympics while China, hosted the latest edition of the Olympics and topped the medals tally with a record breaking 100 medals. While we rejoice that one Abhinav Bindra won gold medal, Phelps won more gold medals than the country of Italy which was ranked 9th.

China, although boasts of all this, has a lot of disadvantages, agreed, being a communist state and all....but lets not look at the glass as half full..let us look at our condition as half empty, atleast for the time being.....