I am now 58 years of age. In 1960, I was in the high school. My brother went then to Germany for official work and while coming back, brought some toys for me. It was a 'Marclin' locomotive engine, the bogies and the connecting rails run on electricity with reverse, siren and all. It was a prototype of a very real train! There was a sewing machine operated on battery, though very small, effective. Next visit, he brought me an aeroplane which could fly in the house when connected to the domestic 220 volt line.
The propriety of telling this is that these toys were made in Germany in 1960, but now till I am 58, India cannot manufacture them and is content with either soft toys or plastic toys.
Can this be attributed to the apathy of the political party which ruled India for 50 odd years to keep people in the same ignorant condition for years together? Indir Gandhi was even reluctant to bring in the TV when other part of the world had it 50 years back!
These people really want us to be ignorant and dwarf and content they disallow us to go beyond a certain level.
