Anyone who has spent some years in a typical indian city/town/village with his mind open to experiences would not deny any of the issues raised by you. Your post is full of angst which we Indians feel and live with 24/7. My question to you and people like you is what did you do to change it? You went to the US of A, accepted a lucrative scholarship, and I am sure are on the way to the top. Any intelligent person would do that, won't he ? So you also chose a better career and economic prospects over struggling against the socio-political filth of India like so many "talented" Indians do (what an irony that one is writing such comments on a website which thrives on UBIs i.e. unfortunately born indians). Sadly, not unlike them you also wrote another piece of apt but trite arm-chair commentary while sitting in your comfortable dorm room in NY, contemplating how poor weak Indians are looking desperately for some hero. Can you see what you are, moreover what you are becoming? Ask yourself this; after your PhD would you come back (not would you like to come back) and start a pioneering research group in India?
The socio-political terrain of any country doesn't change because it finds THE leader but because number of so-called common people like me and you share a common goal and work against severe odds to realise it. Kalam or no-Kalam, India will only change if we decide and work to make it happen 24/7.
