India !!!

We are an ancient civilization.
We are a young republic

40% of the population illiterate.
We are second largest producers of scientists and engineers.

Land where peasant organisations once attempted to close down KFC as a threat to the nation, where a former prime minister bitterly criticised the sale of Pepsi-Cola because 250 million of our countrymen and women don’t have access to clean drinking water.
Land which yet invents more sophisticated software for the world’s computer manufacturers than any other country on the planet

Place where bullock carts are still an indispensable mode of transportation for millions.
Place with one of the most advanced rocket and satellite programs.

A leading nuclear power.
A land where 600 million Indians still have no access to electricity and there power cuts in the capital of the nation.

Non-violence as moral principle.
Bloody riots since the time of Independence.

Bollywood, the largest producer of movies in the world.
150 million Indians are blind and cannot see movies.

10 more Indian names added to the top billionaires list.260 million people living below poverty line.

We boast of IT boom and adding 1 million in IT work force in last few years.
We do not have jobs for 10 million people added to work force each year.

*Courtesy: Shashi Tharoor

We take pride about our "CULTURE", and call this place a paradise. We boast about secularism though religion and caste still remains a sensitive issue which can burst at the drop of a hat. We have so called socialists who have bungalows and luxury cars. If we add up the worth of top dollar billionaires from India, it is more than GDP of most of the nations.

We have a long long way to go !
No point in changing political parties. What we need to change is the politics and administration.