When Dr Manmohan Singh became PM, I had just turned 18. Over ten years, I remember opposing the government on many, many issues but I never once mocked the country’s growth rate, the basic electoral legitimacy, the core economic data etc. We were in fact angry when anyone attacked Dr Singh as India’s PM qua PM. I am even today pissed when some justify Indira or Rajiv’s murders, or indeed Mahatma Gandhi’s.
This mocking of India itself has nothing to do with an age or some cohort. It is just deeply regrettable behaviour by a few people. The single most important quality in an individual is the genuine sense of gratitude. To the mother and motherland, first amongst others. There are so many urban flooding videos from China or America, including their great cities in recent years.
But nobody comes out and links it to - or mocks - the country’s growth rates or basic claims. I see this as internal coherence nation building project as a work in progress, and that is the empathetic way to understand such behaviour. The less empathetic? I would rather not type that.
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