A Muslim President; a Sikh Prime Minister, both highly educated and well known as rocket scientist and foremost economist respectively. Simplicity is their hallmark!
India with 84% Hindu population is in perfect harmony with the religious lenience of its top leaders. How many other countries in the world can accept such open-mindedness? including the US and the UK? I wonder whether US and the UK will ever accept a Muslim as their president?
Not just accept, all Indians are truly proud of their leaders and draw inspiration from such noble individuals as Abdul Kalam and Manmohan Singh.
Our president, even though he is enjoying Country’s one of the best, sprawling homes, Rashtrapathy Bhavan, he will be as happy to be put up in a two bed room apartment. He was in fact staying in such a small house before becoming president. Books he has written speak of his untiring efforts to improve and excel in everything he was doing. It is evident from his literary works that knowledge has been his pursuit and that is what elevated him to the highest office of his country.
Prime minister on the other hand has been known to have studied under street lights as he had no electricity at his home when he was a child. It is like the story of great American president Abraham Lincoln.
Whatever is the condition of the rest of the politics and political leaders, country’s top leaders are fine people, simple and truly great.
What more is needed for Indian children to draw inspiration from?
As a political leader, Roman Catholic Sonia Gandhi needs mention as she is the one who handed the post of the PM in spite of achieving peoples mandate to become their leader.
On the ugly side, there are so many divisive forces in India. Politics is the number one divisive force. However division is only reducing in spite of the presence of these forces. Democracy while it strengthens the country it is wrongly utilised by many individuals and politicians who does not follow the discipline democracy demands.
Even though we sometimes think democracy is beautiful, we also feel that so much liberty for people is the reason for many issues. However in fact it is much better to be able to express yourself than being tongue tied as in many other countries in the world.
In Kerala for example, so many businesses and industries felled due to never ending strikes. Most of these strikes which culminated in closing the establishment is totally unjustified. At the same time, if workers could not demand their just needs, if they had to remain silent to the whims and fancies of their owners, that’s not good either. What is needed is a middle ground where both owners and workers have their liberties and rights for expressing and ascertaining themselves.
However India will overcome all its problems and the way Indian economy is growing is a pointer to that. Nothing seems to affect the upward trend. All major spheres of a country like agriculture, education, health care, and infrastructure, power, has either already undergone substantial improvements or are being developed.
You might recall that in last election, BJP campaigned saying “India Shining”. They realised the lack of shine after the results came. Not only that party, everyone found out that, what Gandhiji always said was true. “India lives in its villages”. The present Govt. realises that all too well.
India is all set to conquer the world to become a developed nation! Let us wish India the very best!
