Our media is full of news that India, in future, is going to be the third largest industrial power after the U.S. and China and that, in addition, we shall enjoy the advantage of having the largest pool of working age population as compared to the other two, which is indeed a very good feel factor.
Let us consult our history. India is not going to be rich for the first time in her lifetime, period.Her past prosperous times had attracted the Aryans, the Turks, the Mughals from the north west and the British came from the south west.. There is , however, one societal factor that has not changed in all these past 30 centuries or so.The same upper class forms 5% of our population, about 25% is the same middle class and the rest 70% are our poor masses whose lives were and still are so miserable that they could not have cared less whether they were ruled by the Aryans, Turks, Mughals,or the British. So how do we go about changing the hereditary proportion and bring the majority of our masses , at least, to the level of the lower middle classes ? Provide them with reasonable income and better health and eductional facilities ? These elementary measures can and do work wonders in the sub-Saharan Africa; but in India we require an additional requisite of providing relief to the much battered psyche of our masses, which today stand totally deformed as a result of having been subjected from generations to countless generations to slander and calumny, the psychological weapons that were so strictly and insensately implemented by the dharmic rules and regulations. Can our so called 'elites' provide leadership for the task of psychic regeneration of our masses? I doubt very much, since I am of the opinion that our 'elites' whether they are RSS wallahs, Congressmen, Communists ( i.e. the top echelon) are in a way self afflicted victims of the HOG syndrome. HOG stands for hallucination of grandeur and hallucination means perception of 'superiority' that has no reality whatsoever outside one's mind. The difficult task of restoring the psyche of our masses to a healthy level thus improving the quality of our people has to be undertaken of war footing, otherwise we shall have to look with apprehension, this time, towards the north east and the south east. antonio