Why is India not going forward?

Once upon a time, we were a feudal country. Masses of farming people worked for the reigning king, paying taxes willingly; the king listened to the problems of the people. We had a mercantile class which was thriving on the profits it had made from the working classes. Nothing much has changed except the rulers now listen to the merchants only.It is perplexing, why is it that we are not able to bring progress to our people! Unless political climate is healthy, progress for the country and its people is not possible. So even with the best resources, we have little hope of progress. Everything is here, except political will to improve the status of the country. We remain very poor....economically poor….poor in spirit. All minerals are available in India, we need not import any. We have largest deposits of coal; and we are self-sufficient in energy for we generate all electricity for our needs. Capitalist know how to manoeuvre political class to their advantage.Public Private Partnership (PPP) does not work out in India. We need better way to allocate natural resources. There are persons who bend (bow) down easily. Even our cricket players seem to have caught the disease of bribing. This is very very bad. Our spirit should be bribe-free. We should not believe in taking bribes. We teach our children that it is wrong to cheat but we actually know that the political class always cheats.  Our political class feels that it can thrive by the bribe it receives from foreign powers or from India's super-rich capitalists. When we are having a puppet regime any kind of effort (like writing this blog) is useless. The wealthiest and the most powerful capitalists fund the nomination of minister of various government departments. Several times a foreign country influences lobbyists for removal of a minister who would disagree with that foreign power. Once one of our ministers had stressed the importance of an important gas pipeline, but he was not allowed to do anything. He was be removed due to lobbyism of a foreign powers. The gas pipeline was never made. Even the department which is spearheading modern technology is nominated by India’s richest capitalists. This was the saddest moment ever to be seen. There was only one hope and that was that innovative technology would bring people into direct contact with the government and that this would improve bureaucracy. This is hope now gone.We have puppet ministers controlled by capitalists. Even with our best workers and intelligent scientists and largest educated population, we remain poor because of puppet political elite. When will all this change? When will ‘puppet rule’ end?..... may be in the future.