India's challenges--a lesson to all

When Earth is a spaceship, we have divided it into  compartments called countries;and we have tried to isolate ourselves engrossed with our internal affairs. The reality is that we have global problems like global warming, tsunami, giant hurricanes, earthquakes which are out of our control. And then we all have man made problems like poverty, lack of water and electricity,lack of employment, and lack of human rights every where. So the problems which are covered in this blog are not just India's, but those which are present in all countries  in different forms. Those topics explored concern all countries for example, land acquisition is rephrased as 'eminent domain' elsewhere.Every where economic conditions are impacting people's standards of living.In India, unequal distribution of wealth and opportunities have brought about society always at war with itself. Much time is wasted in seeking solutions to these challenges and therefore pace of development is reduced.The same may be visible in another form elsewhere.

We can spend only so much of our resources in poverty alleviation, then we have to spend resources on education, research and development, on defense, on making infrastructures and so on.When the population is very high, there will be inequality and we cannot overcome such big hurdles. Education is what we spend for the future, we need to make the next generation capable of handling newer exigencies which they would be facing in the years to come. When we reduce our defence, our status in the comity of nations is diminished, so we cannot cut down on that.We have come far from life in the jungle, we need very good super highways and roadways, good railroads, best airports and good ports. These infrastructures will be developed soon. With good sources of minerals like iron etc, and many finest engineers, we just have to put the two and two together.

We know how to maintain good relation s with other countries. We are bringing about computerisation and e-governance in Bhutan and Mauritius. Even right now we are going to  share  electricity with our neighbour Pakistan which has big shortage of power.It is this spirit of sharing we must keep our spaceship Earth in peace.