It is time for Indians to choose which path to follow.

IN MY OPINION future world history will now depend much on what happens in India. Let me explain

As I have often pointed out in some of my earlier articles, this world really consists of two worlds, the world of the developed, highly industrialised countries like in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and China, and the world of the underdeveloped countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.

The objective of the underdeveloped countries must be to transform themselves into highly developed and industrialised countries, for only then can they abolish the great evils of massive poverty, unemployment, malnourishment, lack of healthcare and good education for the masses etc. The 21st century will therefore be characterised as the century in which this great historical transformation takes place in the underdeveloped world.

India is the most developed of the underdeveloped countries. It has all that is required to become a highly developed country–a huge pool of technical talent (its IT engineers are largely manning Silicon Valley in California and Indian Professors are to be found in the Science, Mathematics and Engineering Departments of many American and other Western Universities and in Western Medical Colleges and hospitals) and it has immense natural resources.

Thus if it has modern minded, scientific, patriotic leaders it is poised to burst into the ranks of the highly developed countries, and will provide leadership to the rest of the underdeveloped world.

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India can thus be conceived of as an atom, which has tremendous energy stored inside it, but which can be liberated only by scientific understanding of its nature and applying scientific techniques.

Unfortunately, since long Indians have been brainwashed with falsehoods and feudal prejudices.

For example, the Mughals are often depicted as aliens, looters, tyrants and oppressors by some bigoted persons just because they were Muslims, though the truth is that India prospered greatly under Mughal rule, and had then about 30% of the world trade (as compared to only about 1.8% today).

India has now two paths open to it to follow

(a) led by modern minded leaders it can wage a historical united people’s struggle, which no doubt will require great sacrifices, but will ultimately result in establishment of a political and social order which creates a highly developed and highly prosperous nation like those in the developed world,

(b) the path of its destruction and dismemberment and further impoverishment, if it continues on the path of communalism, casteism, superstitions, feudal practices and thinking etc and is embroiled in internal strife.

If it follows the first path, that will not only result in its own prosperity but will also set an example for other underdeveloped nations to follow suit. India will thus give leadership to the entire poor underdeveloped world.

On the other hand, if it follows the second path it will not only be catastrophic for itself, it will also be a tremendous set back for all underdeveloped countries who were looking for its leadership, and will greatly delay the historical transformation mentioned above.

It is time for Indians to choose which path to follow.

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