India- The Positives and Negatives

Well India is a developing country and is considered as one of the future economic powers. But for that to happen the country must produce good citizens first. We look everywhere and find people lambasting about everything they could find about this country. They just look at the negatives that are and not the positives.I could go on and on writing about the prejudice the citizens of the country throw against it but it would be better if i put a speech by our beloved President Dr Kalam here.This was a speech he gave at a function at Hyderabad.Just spare 10 minutes and read it. This was forwarded to me by a friend.

* The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad . *

" Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our
achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success
stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a
self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements
but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I
was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the
day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The
Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a
Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid
and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The
gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the
newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so
NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign
things? We want foreign T. Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign
technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that
self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this
lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal
in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . "

This was the inspirational speech given by a man whom we all idolize.To make a country great first the citizens of the country must be great. We can give commentary form out side a field about how bad the field is. thats the easy way out that most people take. But to make the field clean clean we have to enter the field to make it better. So people if you dream of living in a developed India first we have to develop ourselves. At least for the generations to come lets make our country great so that they can proudly say that they live in INDIA.