Though India is striving hard to become a super power on par with countries in the EU, the US and China, it is a distant dream as seen by the ground reality that cannot be wished away. Here is a critique on the credibility of the country as a viable super power based on certain undeniable facts.
"Emerging India either does not know or ignores the statistics: half its children are malnourished, a record poorer than the world's poorest region, sub-Saharan Africa. India is ranked 66th out of 88 countries in the Global Hunger Index drawn up by the International Food Policy Research Institute. India is home to a quarter of the world's hungry—around 230 million people—according to the UN's World Food Programme. More than 455 million Indians survive on $1.25 (Rs57) a day or less, compared with 420 million in 1981. Yet, India is the world's second largest producer of rice and wheat, and at least 50 million tonnes of food grain lie in government warehouses".
What has gone wrong with this country? Are the people in India bereft of the wherewithal to work hard and show the world that they are second to none? Or could it be the short sighted political class that rule the country by turn with no vision, unable to give a clean and efficient government that means what it says? Blaming democracy for all the ills may be true to some extent but not entirely. If China can become a world class country with overflowing wealth, why not India? One may never get a credible answer for this paradox.
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