Now that is something that has been on my mind for sometime now. “Bharat Punarnirman” basically means re-building India. I came across this term when mutiny reported on this website recently.

Though I do what I like most and fortunately I am good at doing it, sometimes I can’t stop thinking about where our country is going. When I look at the reports in various newspapers daily, I find loads of stuff about how India is “shining”; One day, she crosses some few hundred billion US$ in foreign exchange reserves or sometimes she becomes the to-be IT/BPO/blah center of the world. But what amazes me is how we are celebrating this when the Chinese counterparts are about 5-6 times better then us. We excel in one field, they do so is 10 others. Where exactly are we going? Seriously - I do not know.

This is where the topic of the post comes in, re-building India. We need leadership which is powerful enough and confident enough to envision more then what horizon offers today. A group which is young enough to discard all the old beliefs but old enough to know the right from the wrong. A vision that is clear and strong enough to set us in a correct direction but flexible enough to let every person of the country to get along and prosper. I dont know how this party will perform but I sure hope they do what they aim to.

Hopefully I’ll someday hear someone say:

I want to be a politician.

Updates: I had some figures wrong. Amit pointed it out to me today. The indian forex reserve is somewhere near 200 billion $.