India of my Dreams

Everyone in this world dreams. One alwayscountry would be so strong that no enemy would
makes a plan about his future. So, I also have anever dare cast his covetous eyes on the sacred
India of my dreams.soil of India. Defence and security of the country
It would be an India in which, there would be nowould be of paramount importance. For achieving
racism; communalism and regionalism. First of all, Ithis objective, the country would be equipped with
would root out communalism, whatever its shapeall' the paraphernalia of modern defence because
or form may be. All such tendencies, which fanpeople worship military power in the present-day
the forces of separatism and disruption, would beworld. We have proved during the Kargil War that
eliminated.we are second to none but we would have to
Secondly, I want India to be scientificallywork harder for military supremacy.
advanced, technologically better and agriculturallyElimination of ignorance and illiteracy would be.my
advanced. I would like to build an India where logicnext priorities because these are also banes.
and scientific ideas, blind faith and fanaticism asPeople would be educated on a mass-scale. Then,
well as crude emotionalism and coarsemore pragmatic the system of democracy could
sentimentalism shall never rule. I would like tobe individual liberty and freedom would be defined
bring India at the apex of scientific andand granted in letter and spirit.
technological progress because modern age is anAnother thing, which I would like to see in India of
age of science and information technology. Everymy dreams, would be the abridgement of the gap
country, which wants to prosper and progress,between the rich and the poor. National income
must give due importance to science andwould be distributed rationally among the all
information technology otherwise, she cannotsections of the society. Provision of food, housing
create achieve good standards living for herand clothing to one and all would be given top
citizens.priority in the India of my dreams. For achieving
The India of my dreams would be an India that isand accomplishing this, socialism would be the only
self-sufficient in food. All the barren lands would beremedy which, if practised sincerely, would really
cultivated for achieving self-sufficiency inusher India into an era of economic equality.
food-grains. Agriculture would be given specialIf these measures are taken with utmost
attention because agriculture is the backbone ofsincerity, India would really be counted among the
Indian economy. Another Green Revolution wouldmost powerful countries f the world and would
be brought about by launching intensive agriculturalalso guide those countries that are 11 slaves of
programmes and farmers would be asked to usebig powers. It would be an India that Rabindra
better seeds fertilisers as well as modern toolsNath Tagore described in his lines :
and implements."Where the mind is without fear and the head is
This is the age of industrialisation and in this age,held high, where knowledge is free Where the
the country is to be taken to the zenith ofworld has not been broken up into fragments, by
progress and prosperity.narrow domestic walls.
I would also strengthen India's, defence. The