Celebrating Culture

I consider myself fortunate of being born in a culturally diverse, geographically huge country boasting of 18% of the population of the world (correct me if Im wrong). India possesses rich history, culture, beautiful monuments and sagas dating as long as the days of Ramayana or even before that. Being here I realize that tales about India enchant people from the western world. I consider myself so unfortunate not to know these stories and sometimes have to make up some of my own when people here ask me. But as unfortunate as it can be, apart from the sagas about Indian saints, people tend to know just three things about India. First is the caste system prevalent in the Indian society, second Bollywood, and third the crowded Indian cities esp. Mumbai and New Delhi. I attended two conferences on institutional economics, fisheries economics here and in each one of them there was a separate session on China. We being in India, hear about the India shining and the economic boom but I don’t think people in Europe know a lot about it, its rather China that takes the spotlight. It’s the age of marketing and as it seems to me, India hasn’t sent out the right messages to the world about the business environment in the country. People still consider India to be a poor, developing country. India needs to come out, face the world and exclaim or rather shout, "Im the country who will become the superpower, the biggest economy of the world by 2050 in spite of all the corruption, and all the problem because I have the most important asset a country can have, I have 1 billion people with me." We need to realize, it’s us who have to take the initiative to make India the country it has the caliber to become. It’s no use in letting it be termed as the next superpower its better to make it one as soon as we can. We need to work together so that the world recognizes us as a better nation, even better than what they perceive us now.*This post is rubbish actually. I wanted to write about something but in the end, when I read it, its conveying something else. But its a free world and I can put it....waise bhi who reads it anyways.