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In my opinion, the reason why there
won't be any major change in India, in spite how pessimistic or optimistic one
feel about India, is because of the age old characteristics of the Indians.
Indians are too imaginative as opposed to being rational like the
Chinese. We Indians think too much.
In fact, I could not find a single
event, since the Gupta Empire, that we Indians did as a nation in the
political scene, as a proactive action other than going by inertia letting
things happen as it may come, each doing Karma being in his/her
own station, letting the chips fall wherever they will. Of course
there had been side actions of the Ahoms, the Rajputs and many others, but these
are foreigners to be absorbed into the black hole of Hinduism where imagination
take control of the real world and make the Indian blind to see the real world.
Even our struggle for independence was, in my opinion, a war fought out of
inertia.
As one philosopher puts it
"In the
Indian world there is, so to speak, no object that can be regarded as real, and
firmly defined - none that was not at its first apprehension
perverted by the imagination to the very opposite of what it presents to an
intelligent conscienousness...... Among the Hindoos, on the contrary - instead
of Unity - Diversity is the fundamental characteristic." -
Hegel.
RB
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