The piece highlights this fact. It is common knowledge in the International arena. How do we manage it? We should put it in Ripley's Believe it or Not- A Nation of One billion, the largest market in the world, the Seventh largest country in the world and USD one trillion plus economy; counts for nothing! It should wake up anyone, but the world goes around as if we don't matter at all. We must,like the earth which supports us but demands nothing, consider our collective consciousness as mud. Even after 60 years of independence we are in deep slumber. It is time that ordinary citizens assert their dignity rather than wait for our nation to wake up and do something about it.
