2. What India Needs?
• Sounds very clichéd and similar to Chetan Bhagat’s “What
Young India Wants” doesn’t it? Well, there was no other title
that suited what I learnt today, hence this cliché of a title.
• What India needs, what India wants or even what young India
wants.
• The answers to any of these, most of us have tried giving in
one or the other instance of our life wherein we had to share
a bit of ‘gyaan‘ or indulge in the goodness of our inner selves.
• While replying to any question as such, we obviously derive
the intelligence and knowledge of the ages within us, even
though it hardly matters that what we are saying will rarely
ever be seen in practice.
3. The journey into the self
• She needs reformation, she needs her people to be forward
thinking, she needs her people to be free from corruption.
• This is precisely what India needs, but this is something that
India never realizes, with the result that while this
‘gyaan’ sounds extremely good to hear, its most of the time
never good enough to be seen in practice.
• On a frank note, let me disclose at this point that I am not a
self enlightened soul either.
4. • However, I do realize that this is the case and often wonder
how can it be otherwise.
• Sadly, all as out of this world and as alien to what India needs
as the knowledge I preach sometimes. I, however, realized
what India needs today and let me tell you it was not with the
wise words of anyone of India’s so called ‘intellectuals‘, but
the words of a very simple person driving the auto in which I
was travelling, a certain Mr.Sadiq.
5. The realization is very simple
• 1.Realization itself:
– One of the simplest things he said. When I am getting
what I should, why should I try to gain more which I don’t
deserve.
– We all say that as a matter of fact and knowledge, but the
simplicity with which this man realizes this and
understands makes the knowledge involved a practicality
that actually can be realized as the good in society.
6. • 2. Realization That A Wrong Perception is Wrong:
– In-spite of all our so called forward thinking and broad
minded stature, we still perceive a lot.
– If one person does something erroneous, the entire family
and worse still, the entire community is perceived
erroneously.
– One couple shows off with PDA and every boy and girl
who happens to walk together are the culprits in action.
(the concept base of moral policing).
– I won’t say I am much different but the simplicity in the
realization of the same again made me realize, that hey
presto, this is actually the start of what India needs.
7. • 3. Do we realize:
– Now all said and done, in-spite of all our high handed
thoughts and visions, why do we still fail to provide an
answer to what India needs in something that can be
actuated.
– Very simply, we fail to realize our thoughts and that’s
where I realize we fail to make a start.
– Do you?
8. The goodness is all we need
• Conclusively, all of us seek to be good and do something that
puts India and Indians in good stead.
• That’s noble in essence, but what we lack is a simplistic
realization of that essence.
• The way a simple auto driving person realizes what goodness
in society means in a simple manner, if all of us who have
good things in our minds and souls realize, we would have
definitely made a start.
• At the end of the day, India will be made of Indians, and if
each Indian realizes simply what goodness he/she speaks of,
the overall conclusion would definitely be what India needs,
or at-least an actuated start to what India needs.
