If one looks back at the last 58 years of our independent existence , one is bound to say with a little pain in his heart that we are yet to produce a political leader with vision who is acceptable to all the sections of our society.
Jawaharlal Nehru came close to being one of them but his vision was limited in the sense that he thought he could raise the standard of wellbeing of Indians by extending economic benefits as per the socialist ideals. His cardinal misjudgement was in assuming that the average Indian was as good as average East European of the first half of the 20th century. His upper class upbringing had partially shut his eyes from the fact that not all Indians are par with each other, that the caste system had wrought, for a millennium or two, immeasurable havoc on the psyche of the millions and millions of innocent Indians. It has been said that the eyes are the window of the soul, but as Emerson aptly put it '' People see only what they are prepared to see '' Drakensberg, yes, Himalayas, what's it ? Therefore, on the 56th anniversary of the Republic Day , let us pray to the spiritual power that be, that India may be blessed with a political leader with vision, who with her/his immaginative insight into the innards of the Indian society, statesman like foresight, and political sagacity will lead our subcontinent to a bright and prosperous future. Antonio
