I appreciate your sense of optimism. Please come back to reality. If you think we are great inspite of hatred,corruption, then you are are 'cat'(when it's closes it's eyes it thinks whole world has gone with closed eyes'(world has gone dark). But the reality is now people are not sticking to their roots, so if you want our 'specialites' to be retained, then first we must respect and feel proud ourselves. Which will come when we are 'needy' (time like Kargil war) and when we have selfless guys ruling us(none other than Abdul Kalam). But not when we have politicians like Sonia & co who rule nation of one billion by having all dummies alike Manmohan Singh(good economist but a sedate politican) and useless PArthiba Patil(who has absolutely no credentials) in top power.
For Indians to rule the world, we need a transparent,corruption free, caste less(in law/education) system in place. Until we have this, how much ever we grow, we will be like running in 'trend mill' (Moving fast but sill at the same place).
