India Unbound

Its always good to know about yourself and things around…you…they call it awareness…and I think it starts from self awareness….(“Charity begins at home” and all that cliché….).On the outer periphery(although it should be the core…) of self awareness lies knowing about one’s country…..one’s homeland…!!


Poets have always seen beyond and stated both obscure and the obvious (and that’s aint easy..i tell u…)….that’s why they always amuse the confused…(and creative….) and find a ubiquitous mention.


“You wont forget the smell of the soil…and come back a million times, wherever you go..”( “Patriots” …don’t go out and start smelling the soil!!!!)..It’s just a figure of speech …though with a lot of meaning…

Ohk…now enough of random thoughts….in three different paragraphs…Connecting the three gave me a thought to read something about modern history of India…..(ancient history wouldn’t have helped….as world has moved on quite a lot from then…although the teachings still remain relevant..)
The book I stumbled upon was INDIA UNBOUND by Gurcharan Das.

Although it has 400 odd pages…which are still in the process of being read…

What I could gather till now was that the main agitprop of his discourse is that ..Why is India still not as developed as …as compared to the countries which became autonomous at the same time as India did…??

Do you know the answer?

Check your response against these.

Which one is yours??



A. Oh, common….we all know the reason.



B. Don’t I have any other work.!!!



C. I see, so u know better than me..huh…!!



D. **&^)(%&*()*((0)!!!!



E. Confused!!!( Hey …you people are my favorite!!)



People with answer option A…Whatever is known by all…may not be correct…its good it to verify it yourself…



People with answer option B…”then go do your work…why are you wasting time reading a blog…



People with answer option C…Ego’s have caused enough disasters for our world…so please keep it aside…!!!

People with answer option D… You are too explicit..you render me speechless…!!!



People with answer option E…You will add a lot of value to yourselves..!!



So ,decide for yourself… I say it is worth a read… !!!