India, the country where fertility rate is more than the growth rate. The country where rapes are more frequent than rains, where people find many ways to discriminate among themselves, where people hate each other for no reason. Where women have no status at all. Is this is the country our great forefathers have envisioned ? Is this the country we all are proud of ? Certainly this is not my, perhaps our, India, we are proud of. Indeed, no country is perfect and so is my country, which really needs to take a check on where it is heading towards.
One might comment that even the rich Indian culture is full of flaws. Be it the dowry system, the nature of the culture which prefers men to women, the caste system and many times even religion is a barrier. But does it shows the true picture of India. Indeed, we are missing the larger picture, because we are watching it too closely.
India whose history is as old as mankind itself has a different story altogether. In a country with huge diversity in language religion etc, there is too much which was never projected. From the beginning itself this country adds values to ones life which we will rarely come across in whole world.
The day at any Indian school starts with the morning assembly in which students offer prayers to the deity. Wish for the better lives of themselves and their dear ones. In India each one greets their elders by touching their feet. And this legacy is carried forward by millions of Indians for many years.
There are many other aspects which should be pointed out but the real conclusion is that the aforementioned is not my India's story. Because somewhere deep inside every Indian, there is still humanity left which makes us all the proud Indian.
