Topic: India at 70 (Read 254 times)

India is not alone in this case you check around world many other big countries have same problems but they are doing some good also which is not available here because we are not positive mind peoples we need to think about many things but currently we are under influence of religious peoples and they don't want we become developed they want we gone back 1000 years back

India is still not an independent country but rather an colony with a change in government form.
The India today consist of hundreds of independent nations/part of nations which are still forcibly oppressed by the central government.
With one of the largest killing of civilians by the military.

How is India a democracy when its politicians are in their function by virtue not election aren't most of the political parties related to eachother (family?)

Also India might have shaken and driven out the britains from their country but certainly not their minds. If you compare India now to how it was before the occupation, India certainly was in touch with its roots. The populace of India has westernized a lot. I personally think that India has a very profound spiritual background but it seems that a lot of Indians have forgotten about this and adopted the skeptic british mindset. Mahabharata remains one of my favourite books, I really like Vedic literature in general. But I feel as if India is really trying to be western when it should just be India, thats what it always was and what it should strive to be. Themselves. India was a modern country in itself without westerners.
It had manners, great fashion and very developed compared to most countries. Though there were and still are the class systems and in my modern mind I can't really agree on that, India has always had a good amount of prosperity being naturually rich and is home to some of the earliest philosphers even before Greeks. India could be considered the first country that was developed enough to have loads of free time and when any society gets free time they will devote this to philosophy, math, astrology and other sciences. Which is not only a privelege but also shows how socially developed a country is when there's a general free speech and free thought. Most western countries after the fall of Rome weren't ready for this untill the 17th century. Only Arabia dominated by Islam who didn't forbid sciences such as math and astrology didn't even come close to India in that matter.
I think India and its Vedic literatures is one of the few that actually acknowledges the possibility (or believes in it) that earlier civilisations were far more advanced that we are now.
And such theories are becoming truth more rather than fiction as we are unraveling inventions of the greeks that are very similar to early forms of computers. With all the civilisations lost in oblivion its hard to tell if we're the most advanced because there's nothing to compare us to except for some Greek literature, the middle ages and we know the Romans we're pretty keen on hygene and inventing stuff, the fact that we draw most of our science from earlier civilisations and also philosophy just shows how immature we are in our time.

But back to the point; India imo has a long way to go, cause those british might have left the country but they are still in the minds of many indians.

The development of India is a very great step.
The population is also great, and the influence on the world is also great.

India at 70

The World's Biggest Democracy Celebrates Its Birthday

seventy years ago, independent India was born. Having shaken off the yoke of the British Empire, the country embarked on what was—and remains—the world’s most radical democratic experiment. Never before had a nation with such a low per capita level of income extended universal voting rights to its citizens; throw in varied topography, unparalleled ethnic and religious diversity, the inheritance of a socially rigid and unequal caste system, and the fact that India resides in a fractious geopolitical neighborhood, and its flourishing democracy looks even more remarkable. Today, the country features more than 1,000 political parties. Women participate in the electoral process in larger numbers than their male counterparts. Historically disadvantaged groups, such as Dalits (formerly “untouchables”), are reshaping politics and gaining social mobility.