A wise man once said that status of a man in his different phases is dependent on different factors. The status of a man when he is 20 reflects the position of his parents in society; at the age of 40, person’s status is majorly a reflection of his own achievements and at the age of 60, it’s the achievement of his children that defines his status in society. I wondered if same applies to our country, India. And I found a very interesting analogy (though not sure whether someone else would find it interesting :) ). Analogy that I can think of goes like :
India(as a person) <-> Government of India.
Parents of India <-> Freedom Fighters.
Children of India <-> We, the people.
India is 60 years old now (considering she was born on 15th August 1947). When we see the prestige of India in world around 1967(20 years old), I think people across the world admired our culture and it was seen as a country with bright future. This was what our freedom fighters had sacrificed their lives for.
Then, comes the mid stage of India's life i.e. in 1987 (40 years old now), Indian economy was in dire straits. License raj, bureaucratic corruptions, ever declining Forex reserves, labour strikes etc. had taken indian economy to ransom. India was still called ‘Developing’ nation. The use of word ‘Developing’ was euphemism I suppose, because Indian economy was nothing more that ‘Stagnant’, rather ‘Un-Developing’ would have been the perfect choice of word. Well, we cannot blame only the Government for this as we are the ones who elect them, but I feel Indian public was still too nascent to know the powers of democracy.
The last stage(by last, I mean the latest :) ) of India’s life : 1987-2007(60 years old,..actually 60 years YOUNG). This is the period when Children of India made their mark. In almost whatever fields people have ventured into, we have done beyond expectations. Government did take a step of liberalising Indian economy in 1991, but that was more of a forced step than a well thought one as government treasuries were nearing bankruptcy. (Again, taking nothing away from PV Narasimha Rao, who really hurried up the whole process). And about the present status of India, I think I need not say much about it. sone ki chidiya aa rahi hai *!
(i would love to have your comment on this.... if you have some additions to this analogy or even if you can find an audit in my way of thinking.. i am sure there are many cases which i have missed out here... I would love to get those from you)
*took the liberty of taking that from a TV commercial of Future Group
5 comments:
Hey Malay,
That was a good ventilation. I donno for how many years we are going to say India will be the greatest power in 20 years. It is still uncertain how many 20 years. When we imagine about the future of India, projected with the Growth rate (I know its a negative curve) over the past few years, we will get a feeling like it would be a disastrous and dangerous future. Better not to imagine.
Many things were done wrong and are still done to present. What to do? How to correct? I donno.
Whenever I think about it, I think of this theory like many spiritualists, everything we have done, are doing and will do are correct, which may seem wrong at first but leads only to good.
So lets see, even bad things done in these many years of India may kindle a revolution which will explode and clean everything in future. I want to conclude by saying "Hope the worst to come so that best will be the outcome".
Seems very much influenced by chote..I guess you got it who is chote. Anyways the blog is too good and inspiring, keep writing.
bhaila... i started reading it.. and i was expecting some fireworks to happen.. especially some trivial facts.. some incidents which i havnt heard till date.. some innovative comparisions... but to my disappointment i dint find it too interesting.. but one reason i find this happening is that the very idea of this analogy tickled me so much that i had that so called itch to read more n more of it n just wanted u to keep goin on n on bout it ...so my immediate response would be to elaborate on this analogy more coz i m very sure that this very idea must have made u collect a lot of info bout the topic... but again as i said.. its my itch which makes me write all this...
commenting on the content.. i totally agree with all the parts and especially the first part of analogy where u mentioned the parents of the nation as our freedom fighters.. also the last part.. somehow the 2nd comparision dint convince me much n if u could write more on that to convince me bout all the stuff ur sayin .. (well actually does anybody care whether i m convinced or not .. :P)
i ve been totally critical about the writeup .. but i guess that wht u wanted right ??? (even if u dint wnt it that way i dont give a damn.. this is wht i wnted to say :P)
but u missed the most important part ..
JAI HIND !!
dude...well tried :P. i totally agree wid u that in the recent past "INDIANS" hv made a mark on the world stage, but then we have to see and tell ourselves whether they are actually "INDIANS" or are we riding along wid the media who even celebrates the success of a certain bobby jindal, when he himself says he is American by heart. Also the taking away of credit away from the governments since liberalisation is unwarranted. my point is though it has been the individuals and companies that have made the "20 yrs" the coming 20 yrs possible, it wouldn't have been possible w/o the efforts of the govt. how do you expect investments by both the locals and foreign investors in any industry if the govt. was not supportive. Also it takes time t implement any policy with the way our country functions( read "chalta hai" nature). so i guess you cannot hold the government responsible for all that wrong that has happened to our country when we the citizens arn't to bothered about it. there were some more points i'd wanted to say but alas MBA rigor!!! :)
Lots of wonderful reading here, thank you! I had been searching on yahoo when I found your article, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to more from you.
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