So much for being a super power

A couple of days ago, I was outside the Besant Nagar subway and I saw this small three-year old,shabbily dressed boy clinging on to a foreigner. Obviously, he was a beggar asking for money but that gentleman probably in his mid-40's rebuked that little Indian. All attempts of that boy to pursuade him came to nothing.After sometime he quit and walked away.

I was awash with a sense of regret and shame.I was disgusted, not with the foreigner but with the so called decision makers in our country "The powers that be" and about our claim of being an upcoming and global super power,a force to reckon with. All our famed politicos traverse the world beating their chests about being a nuclear power and an emerging economy but ground reality remains that our future still has to beg in streets for a day's meal. In a Country like ours where poverty still engulfs surroundings and the prime concern is survival, can't we have better aspirations? We need better infrastructure and governance in our Country. We need a strong base before raising the bar.

Our prime concern has to be Line Of Poverty (LOP) instead of the Line of Control (LOC) and every Indian has to play pivotal role in this endevor. There are many severe pitfalls and roadblocks which we have to overcome in the near future, before we can become significant players in the international economic scene on a sustained basis.Can we all make an effort to try and make a difference?