My Economics Assignment

Well, I could not come up with anything today, so I decided to put my economics assignment as today's post. The assignment was to write about my vision on India's future on the day of her 61st Independence!!

It has been 61 years since the British left our soil. After over 100 years of Tyranny
and Ruthlessness we managed to free ourselves from their clutches. India was left battered both socially and economically, But, look at us now! we are on the verge of attaining a superpower
status. I am sure every Indian reading this will be gleaming with pride now! but is there any reason to be proud?!

Frankly, I dont believe that we are anywhere near the status of a developed country and besides that I also dont see any greatness in all these things. Honestly our achievements are
under par or if your optimistic "just ordinary". In fact, I think we should be really ashamed of
ourselves that we took so long to get to this milestone. Japan was a country which was even more devastated than India was. The effect of the second world war on japan was gruesome. Gripped with
severe poverty and health issues, This tiny island country made it to this milestone far ahead of
us. The question we must be asking is " Why is this so?!!"

Now i am guessing that, most people here will be contradicting me( atleast in your minds)
by stating facts like India is the largest democracy in the world, it has the 2nd highest growth rate etc..But have u ever taken a moment off and thought about how it has helped the people of our country socially or economically for that matter??

If we analyze the financial growth of a random sample of 10 people. we see that the rich has gotten richer and the poor has gotten poorer!..and what about our society?!! How has it changed in the past 61 years?it is observed that the number of communal riots, regional riots, crime rate, nepotism and even the number of strikes and hartals keep increasing every year. Is this Development?

To be honest, we have not gone so far ahead, not even half way as much as the hype has
stated. The only way I see development is if every Indian behaves responsibly. Our biggest problem is that We are more aware of our rights than our duties. we never forget to fight for our rights but we so often shirk our duties. As far as tht trend continues, we are still going to be right where we started. I would like to share the idea of Alfred Marshall, the famous classical economist that the Welfare of the people is the development of a country.

and that welfare is directly dependent on individual contributions and also personal sacrifice. so all I would like to ask my fellow Indians here rite now is

" DO U HAVE A VISION OF MAKING INDIA A GLOBAL SUPERPOWER?!!"

cos quite frankly "ONLY THAT MATTERS!!".