The India of my Dreams
AS FOR THE FUTURE OF INDIA, WHAT IS THE POINT IN prophetizing. We all s have ideas about our children; some arents do all they can to force their children to develop in a particular way. But they cannot.'
This also applies to one's country. No matter what one wants and what one does for it, it develops in its own way. Its development is influenced by whatever is happening and also by the trends of the ordinary people.
I should not waste time foretelling India's future. I have been brought up to feel that India is a special place. It does not mean that the people are better, more moral or more spiritual than other people; but I think that, in spite of a great deal of hypocrisy, they have aimed at certain ideals which other countries have jettisoned. These ideals also feature in other religions but people and governments pay little attention.
In India, our ideals have mattered, even though nothing may have been done about them. They were there, at the back — not of every individual's — but of the national mind, if I can put it that way. A little presence which has given something to India.
They provided the strength and the inner resources on which we poverty. I am greatly distressed about poverty, but I think that even our poorest people have a quality which prosperous people elsewhere do not often have. I would like the India of the future to keep this quality while ridding itself of poverty.
Source: http://indiragandhi.in/en/philosophy/speeches/2
This also applies to one's country. No matter what one wants and what one does for it, it develops in its own way. Its development is influenced by whatever is happening and also by the trends of the ordinary people.
I should not waste time foretelling India's future. I have been brought up to feel that India is a special place. It does not mean that the people are better, more moral or more spiritual than other people; but I think that, in spite of a great deal of hypocrisy, they have aimed at certain ideals which other countries have jettisoned. These ideals also feature in other religions but people and governments pay little attention.
In India, our ideals have mattered, even though nothing may have been done about them. They were there, at the back — not of every individual's — but of the national mind, if I can put it that way. A little presence which has given something to India.
They provided the strength and the inner resources on which we poverty. I am greatly distressed about poverty, but I think that even our poorest people have a quality which prosperous people elsewhere do not often have. I would like the India of the future to keep this quality while ridding itself of poverty.
Source: http://indiragandhi.in/en/philosophy/speeches/2
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