A couple days ahead of India's 60th Independence day, please read this article (and if possible, the many linked articles within)... and feel free to send it to other Indians. Its better than sending around those silly jokes, urban legends, and inane chain letters.
The Republic of Apathy by Amit Varma
This was also published this week in the Mint newspaper in an article titled "These Songs of Freedom".
For those interested, there are quite a few good related articles linked in two previous posts.
Note: To readers that may think I am only taking the negative view, here is an interesting plot that shows that once India put Indira Gandhi's retrograde policies behind, it has made some progress in terms of per capita GDP. I am, however, not talking about economic and materialistic gains. I think the wise men in ancient India (and many today in the Western world) are realizing that money and materialism itself do not relate directly to happiness or lives well lead. However, freedoms enjoyed do.
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