Comments on: Notable Quotes about Indian Indepence Day http://www.iagb.org/index.php/notable-quotes-about-indian-indepence-day/ India Association of Greater Boston Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:54:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dr Ram K. Iyengar http://www.iagb.org/index.php/notable-quotes-about-indian-indepence-day/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Dr Ram K. Iyengar Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:17:57 +0000 http://www.iagb.org/?p=377#comment-6 I am proud of Bharat which has shown to the world how democracy has provided better opportunities for its citizens compared with the dictatorships and autocratic rulers in other "under developed" countries. Having lived in Maharashtra during the early years independence, we often admired the progress in the Soviet Union and sometimes opined that a militaristic dictator like Subhash Chandra Bose may have made Bharat more powerful compared to the democratic dictatorship of Pandit Nehru. During those young days of democracy, we admired Stalin and Mao-Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) and hoped one day we will also have a disciplined dictatorship. We were teenagers then! Much water has flown into Ganga since that time! Despite Nehru's reluctance to yield power to more dynamic Bharatiyas, despite Indira Gandhi's short lived dictatorship, and despite the dynastic rule of Rajiv Gandhi, the PEOPLE of independent democratic India ultimately, through their aspiration and hard work, made Bharat a more desirable place than the unfortunate parts on the east and the west of Bharat that were carved out (VIVISECTION) by the self serving British rulers. India has shown that democracy can work, albeit with patience and perseverance. That there can be social progress with economic development. That private capitalism can work with state capitalism to give a reasonable GDP growth rate. To spread democracy to other parts of the world, the USA need not adopt the Bush doctrine of invasion and wars! There is a non-violent and more peaceful way as shown by India. We the US Americans of South Asian origin can influence the present and future role of the USA. Yes the USA can lead a better way to bring about democracies and real freedom for the people in Middle East, and Africa. We need to elect representatives in the Congress who believe in patience, perseverance and hard work instead of senators and representatives who shoot from the hip all the time and who are not the coat-tails of past rulers who keep on pestering the present administration to increase the troops in Afghanistan. We can send such a person to the US Senate on December 8 2009. Would you consider Alan Khazei to be one such person? Dr. Ram K. Iyengar, Littleton MA ramkiyengar@hotmail.com I am proud of Bharat which has shown to the world how democracy has provided better opportunities for its citizens compared with the dictatorships and autocratic rulers in other “under developed” countries. Having lived in Maharashtra during the early years independence, we often admired the progress in the Soviet Union and sometimes opined that a militaristic dictator like Subhash Chandra Bose may have made Bharat more powerful compared to the democratic dictatorship of Pandit Nehru. During those young days of democracy, we admired Stalin and Mao-Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) and hoped one day we will also have a disciplined dictatorship. We were teenagers then!

Much water has flown into Ganga since that time!

Despite Nehru’s reluctance to yield power to more dynamic Bharatiyas, despite Indira Gandhi’s short lived dictatorship, and despite the dynastic rule of Rajiv Gandhi, the PEOPLE of independent democratic India ultimately, through their aspiration and hard work, made Bharat a more desirable place than the unfortunate parts on the east and the west of Bharat that were carved out (VIVISECTION) by the self serving British rulers.

India has shown that democracy can work, albeit with patience and perseverance. That there can be social progress with economic development. That private capitalism can work with state capitalism to give a reasonable GDP growth rate.

To spread democracy to other parts of the world, the USA need not adopt the Bush doctrine of invasion and wars!
There is a non-violent and more peaceful way as shown by India.
We the US Americans of South Asian origin can influence the present and future role of the USA.

Yes the USA can lead a better way to bring about democracies and real freedom for the people in Middle East, and Africa. We need to elect representatives in the Congress who believe in patience, perseverance and hard work instead of senators and representatives who shoot from the hip all the time and who are not the coat-tails of past rulers who keep on pestering the present administration to increase the troops in Afghanistan.

We can send such a person to the US Senate on December 8 2009.

Would you consider Alan Khazei to be one such person?

Dr. Ram K. Iyengar,
Littleton MA
ramkiyengar@hotmail.com

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