Hi Bhara, We all know that Britain exploited india to further its imperialistic goals during colonisation.This was done in other countries by French,Dutch,Portugese,Spain etc.But to say that India was very rich before the advent of British and we became poorer because of that is far fetched. A country is not a non living thing,it means its people.Again being rich does n't mean rich temples and extravagant maharajas,but it stands for the welfare of the people.It also represents richness of the ideas.I would like to remind you that even now millions of people in the country are in abject poverty.Whom do you blame?British? Let us not waste our time on culture vulture discussions.You seem to have wrong notions about India as well.We all cherish our democratic values and unity in diversity.The founders of this nation didn't visualize India as a monocrop of one religion,one language etc.A garden with varieties of flowers looks more beautiful than another with just a single variety. If this is kept in mind always, then we can march ahead in the global arena,otherwise we will be reduced to fighting over silly things.
