| Everyone in this world dreams. One always | | | | country would be so strong that no enemy would |
| makes a plan about his future. So, I also have an | | | | ever 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 no | | | | would be of paramount importance. For achieving |
| racism; communalism and regionalism. First of all, I | | | | this objective, the country would be equipped with |
| would root out communalism, whatever its shape | | | | all' the paraphernalia of modern defence because |
| or form may be. All such tendencies, which fan | | | | people worship military power in the present-day |
| the forces of separatism and disruption, would be | | | | world. 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 scientifically | | | | work harder for military supremacy. |
| advanced, technologically better and agriculturally | | | | Elimination of ignorance and illiteracy would be.my |
| advanced. I would like to build an India where logic | | | | next priorities because these are also banes. |
| and scientific ideas, blind faith and fanaticism as | | | | People would be educated on a mass-scale. Then, |
| well as crude emotionalism and coarse | | | | more pragmatic the system of democracy could |
| sentimentalism shall never rule. I would like to | | | | be individual liberty and freedom would be defined |
| bring India at the apex of scientific and | | | | and granted in letter and spirit. |
| technological progress because modern age is an | | | | Another thing, which I would like to see in India of |
| age of science and information technology. Every | | | | my 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 and | | | | would be distributed rationally among the all |
| information technology otherwise, she cannot | | | | sections of the society. Provision of food, housing |
| create achieve good standards living for her | | | | and 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 is | | | | and accomplishing this, socialism would be the only |
| self-sufficient in food. All the barren lands would be | | | | remedy which, if practised sincerely, would really |
| cultivated for achieving self-sufficiency in | | | | usher India into an era of economic equality. |
| food-grains. Agriculture would be given special | | | | If these measures are taken with utmost |
| attention because agriculture is the backbone of | | | | sincerity, India would really be counted among the |
| Indian economy. Another Green Revolution would | | | | most powerful countries f the world and would |
| be brought about by launching intensive agricultural | | | | also guide those countries that are 11 slaves of |
| programmes and farmers would be asked to use | | | | big powers. It would be an India that Rabindra |
| better seeds fertilisers as well as modern tools | | | | Nath 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 of | | | | world has not been broken up into fragments, by |
| progress and prosperity. | | | | narrow domestic walls. |
| I would also strengthen India's, defence. The | | | | |