“What do you dream of?” that’s the question A. P. J. Abdul Kalam asked a little kid a few years back. The kid answered, “I want to grow up in a developed INDIA.”
INDIA, a home to 1.252 billion people and more than 7 lakh industries surely looks like a country to watch out for in the nearby future. Going by the stats it really does look like a country full of opportunities and the thing is it really is. But opportunities alone cannot make development . Rahul Gandhi had an opportunity of becoming the prime minister of world’s largest democracy. He screwed it. So opportunities are not the only thing that matters.
So, where are we gonna be in the next five years? By 2020. At the end of a decade.
The question that the mind frequently encounters is why 2020? Is the year so mention worthy just because some novelist titled one of his books as so. I don’t think so.
Moving on, there are two characters of everyone’s personality. A pessimist and an optimist.
The pessimist part of me says that INDIA has been wrapped up in chains of slavery from periods unknown. Slaves in the hands of foreigners, corruption, religion, mentality and what not the list is endless. So what difference can five more years make? Nothing. It has always been like this for decades and five more years are not going to bring any noteworthy change.
Yes, we will develop. A lot in fact but only in terms of population, corruption, pollution, crime etc. It says that we Indians shouldn’t dream too much. As dreams are sweet and we Indians with a population of 76 million diabetic patients can’t afford any more sweets.
At a point of time even I start believing that change is an evitable thing in INDIA but then suddenly my optimist part comes into existence.
It’s vision gave me the second thoughts that I always wanted to have.
My optimist part sees possibilities. By 2020 it dreams of a nation whose voice will be heard loud and clear in the international arena. It dreams of a nation where NIRBHAYA will walk in the narrowest streets, in the darkest of hours, in the shortest of clothes, alone and still reaches home safe and sound. It dreams of an INDIA whose name will be the only identity of it’s people. It dreams of a nation where someone’s patriotism will not be judged by the clothes he wears or the name he bears. It dreams of a nation where people respect the women in their homes rather than the ones riding a wild animal. It dreams of a nation where GOD will reside in hearts rather than temples, masjid, church and gurdwaras.
It dreams of a nation like the nation a great patriot RABINDRA NATH dreamed of – Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.
Where knowledge is free.
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls.
Where words come out from the depth of truth.
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards
perfection.
Perfect or not INDIA has still got it’s share of development to witness. About the character part it’s solely our decision to take.
Concluding let’s just hope that the next time when a kid is asked about what does he/she wants to be the kid’s answer will be something more inane like a barbie princess, a rockstar, a model, Rahul Gandhi (really I meant that) rather than spending his/her dream on something which would have been achieved by then.
Here are a few lines by a very energetic young lad (that’s me as a matter of fact)
2020 or 3010
visions may vary but not the name
the name that rushes with the blood
the name that beats with the heart
INDIA INDIA INDIA!!!!!!!
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