Can the world’s largest democracy leapfrog to the world’s third largest economy without tearing out the heart of its broken culture?
The Chinese have a creative perspective.
Why did India earlier have the best social indicators in South Asia; yet, today, is second last, just ahead of Pakistan?
Does Bangladesh score above India, on South Asian social indicators, because Bangldeshi women are more involved with their economy than Indian women?
Why is there pervasive gender apartheid in India?
Despite the secularization of marriage & restricting marriage to consenting adults above 18 years old through the Special Marriage Act, 1954 & the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1976, why is the prevalence of child marriage rampant in rural India?
What drives Indians to bargain to the last paisa when going marketing from vegetable & grocery street vendors?
Why do we Indians buy brands without batting an eye-lid; but, to shell out Rs 100 to alter & right size branded clothing, we feel the pinch & bargain like there's no tomorrow?
What pleasure do we get in beating down the price of cobblers, shoe shiners, pen sellers, plumbers, electricians & house painters, when we gleefully fork out the list price for Shanzhai Burberry or Versace?
Why does Mother India treat her women as second class citizens?
Who is responsible for the 50,000 documented cases of female foeticide per year in India that occur after sex-determination tests?
Why did the wife Makhan Singh, the man who beat Milkha Singh & won Asian Games gold, have to sell all his medals to make ends meet?
Why do we recognize the actress Priyanka Chopra, who plays Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte, Mary Kom? Hailing from the Manipuri Kom tribe? Even though M.C. Mary Kom is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion & a member of the Rajya Sabha?
Why do women in India have to hold their bladders upto 13 hours due to lack of toilets?
Was Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh exempted from relieving himself against a school wall flanked by his security guards carrying automatic weapons?
Is there a better way for Indian Railways to dispose of human excreta, other than depositing it directly on the tracks?
Has the holy Ganges river, the sixth most polluted river in the world, made the Ganga, the river from hell?
Why is only 13% of India’s sewage is treated?
Why does untreated sewage still exacerbating Indian water-borne diseases leading to 40% of the world’s malnourished children: 60 million kids, in India?
Why do 74% of young Indians prefer an arranged marriage over a free, personal choice marriage?
And the head is held high?
Is India awakening?
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore.
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