Chanakya, our Country was under alien occupation till about 60 years back. Even after independence the licence-permit raj did not allow us to exploit our full potential.
The real progress in our Country started with the economic liberalization of the early 1990s. We have made considerable progress and in another 20 years or so we would also attain the level of any other developed country. So don't have self-pity. We are not inferior to any other country.
I do not believe that Indians are not worth living on planet earth like the neo-converts want us to belive.