Now, this is what can be accomplished by nations if they have moved on from fighting about caste and religion and their militant next door neighbor. Even if India were to send something like this to Mars (which I am sure it might in the future) there will always be a this notion of the government and the rich making progress while the poor andmiddle class are still burning Pakistani flags and trying to elect BJP so that they will make their temple. It would be a really odd. Americans do not burn anyone's flags even though they have so many enemies around the globe. The other thing is that progress made without the progress of the masses is hollow at best. Look what happened in China. One earthquake and the whole country is unable to cope. There are 69 dams which might burst! All a product of currupt infrstructure building where the cement is not even pure becasue the contractors pocket the money. They're saying now that all those recently built high rises collapsed like a house of cards. What I intedn to say is that no country can truly progress without a complete social and political progress that permeates all the way down to the lowest economic rungs of the society. I am Indian by the way.
