From all the financial currents, India and China seem to be on an economic upswing.

In the latest India today, some remarks of Mark Twain, “ India is the cradle of the human race. The birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition.”.

If Saddam Hussain knew he might say that this statement at least in certain respects is the mother of all distortions Most Indians do better abroad.

To me ,India is just a country with a lot of spiritual knowledge but with very little application. Even if we were great and rich once upon a time, how does it matter now?

Today it came in the papers that people like Bill Gates and the Intel CEO, Mr Craig Berrett worried about the way India and China are forging ahead. In an article,” India China out to eat America’s lunch”, Mr Barrett said that while it is natural for resources to gravitate towards talent, he was worried about his grandchildren.

Now that is something to cheer about. Only goes to corroborate the all time great spiritual message, “ This too shall pass”. No prosperity or backwardness is perpetual.
It is said that “There are tides in the matters of men which when taken at flood lead to fortune”. From that point of view, the years ahead maybe very good though one wonders whether it will mean prosperity for majority.

Talking of “grandmother of tradition”, Lalloo prasad Yadav may come back in Bihar and even his brother- in-laws wives’ are wanting to join full time politics in the footsteps of Rabri devi in keeping up the tradition.

How can such trends lead to all round prosperity?. God alone knows whether or not Chidambaram shall be able to follow his own trend. In his last couple of years as FM, the current PM also had to bow to populism.

Some NRI had said once sarcastically that India is a land of the future and shall always remain a land of the future because of its policies. Well at least in that context, we can sing that song “ Hum honge kaamyaaaab ek din, man me hai vishwas, pura hai vishwas” a little more realistically now.

India may or may not be great but an Indo-Pak cricket series is great entertainment.

Let’s hope that the cricket trend never changes. Looking forward to the series. There also the song seems apt when one remembers what happened a year ago.



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