What is the reality? India is on the verge of losing foodgrains self-sufficiency & is planning to import foodgrains. USSR was a super power, it did not concentrate as much on the agriculture side as it did in the space race. Soon it had to import wheat from the USA & Canada. There were food-riots in Soviet cities. Now the USSR is no more!
Will the same happen in India? Will India only concentrate on the BPO business (TCS, Infosys, Satyam, WIPRO, HCL) & ignore agriculture? Will we have to depend on foreign countries for wheat & rice? Will there be food-riots in Indian cities?
At least the USSR produced its own weapons. But how much of the weapons India has are indegenously made. Bofors guns are from sweden. Mig fighters are from Russia. Our aircraft-carriers are actually 2nd hand vessels bought from other nations. How can a country become a superpower if it does not manufacture its own weapons? If we buy the weapons from other countries, they would know what weapons we have, the defects & capabilities of it, etc. This information could be passed over to our enemies! How then, can we win over our enemies? "India, a superpower!" in our dream maybe! But on ground, its just India!
