Hi Murthy Calling names does not provide strength to your logic anymore than your facts do.
Let me again suggest you read my post articulately. Before lecturing, I suggest reading with comprehension. Per Capita Income is an average of GDP over population and is not an indicator of economic status of citizens. If you really want to dig deep into purchasing and wealth distrbution, consider research on the term "Purchasing Power parity". It is and adjusted value to provide comparison about pruchasing capacity of an average individual. Research again , this time not with pictures of past and presumption by graphical representation, and you will find the middle income was doing decently well and business flourished (One of the largest caste group was Kshatriyas and Baniyas). I am not denying poverty, but poverty is comparative and we did not have starvation and epidemic and general socail rebellion and failing social fabric. Anyway, the point is hardly economics.
You said India lacks wealth and has hardly produced anything substantial in the past to command respect as opposed to Western Civilizations and the wealth created is a good indicator of its capabilities.
Most of the people that are responding to you are trying to point to you is that is ignorance or a myospcopic view of the bigger picture. You are more concerned about post WWII developments without attaching relevance or significance to our previous assets. That is contextually skewed argument. It is like ridiculing a grandpa for not knowing how to program in C .
If you study history enough, you will understand why there is a deep respect for Indus civilization which influenced many civiizations and their fundamental thinking. You will see how trades were linked to remote civilizations even as remote as the Incas and how we were doing well in metallurgy , construction and medicine before the invasions changed our course of history dramatically. Even in WW when Britain was reeling from medicinal issues in treating epidemics, homeopathy formed a major force of treatment.
what we lost out is developemnt of these indegenious fileds- partly circumstantial, partly discipline and loss of respect for our culture.
So I agree with you in your rebuke for call of abondoning western lifestyle. But I abhor your resentment and ridicule of India.
