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From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

India, August 1947... My grandfather described the
situation then

By Burkha Dutt
October 24, 2018

I see some posts here and there about how India is a poor
country or how unorganized we are. While I agree with them,
I only agree partially. I also see this negativity being
used by communists to try and prevail their ideas of
economy over the country.

To bust these communist agendas, I want to take you all to
a picture painted by my grandfather about the times we, as
indians came from. Juxtapose that picture which he
described (below) to your india today...

Me: What were you doing on August 15th, 1947? How do you
think India has changed since then.

Grandfather: "(pauses a bit) I was travelling in a train
from Rajahmundry to Visakhapatnam. The midnight before that
dawn, it was announced india was independent. I was a
teenager travelling to see my family in visakhapatnam.
Everyone was happy that we achieved independence. In this
part of the country, all laurels were thrown at congress
party(he admires gandhi's personal characteristics). Tuni
is an important town in coastal andhrapradesh. Our train
was going through that town. Just before the train stopped,
on either side of the track, there were about 10000 people
asking for food in the hope that people in the train,
supposedly richer, would throw some food. Remember, the
madras presidency had seen famine for the past 2-3 years by
then. Tears kept rolling down my cheeks. Helplessness.

If you ask me has India changed, I would say, yes.
Definitely yes. Its been slow but there has been progress.
However, I feel people have grown more cunning and are
duping others these days even more."

This was India then, a poor country left without even food
to eat! Its not a question of who is responsible, though we
know the mughals and the british plundered the country. The
real point is that we have pulled many people out of
poverty. In fact the slow pace of progress is a result of
Nehru parivar's lack of vision. A lack of
dictatorship/draconian communism has let the people
progress. No matter what we think of Nehru, he was better
than any communist leader. Same applies to any congress of
the old times. To think that Congress under Sonia G and
Rahul G has joined hands with communists, makes me laugh at
those that call themselves congressmen. I mean wasn't
congress opposed to communism and hence, a democracy
established in India? How can they forget that in their
blind hatred for Hindus and hindu practices?

The motivation for the post was to break the myth prevalent
among some of us that nothing can be done of India. We
progressed despite many corrupt, inefficient political
leaders post independence, we progressed despite the
overpopulation issues, despite the deep scar of partition
and subsequent terrorism from the neighbor. We are getting
off of our debt. Democracy is working for us, just need to
give power to the right people.

I think Mr. Modi is the best leader for India in the
foreseeable future but that's an opinion. The above though,
was/is a fact.

End of forwarded post.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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