India 3.0 by Arun Tiwari

Author:Arun Tiwari
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOCIETY & CULTURE
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2019-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

India’s global footprint is fast expanding. There is increased engagement with countries that are essential as well as important to India’s interests. Despite the broad pillorying of Prime Minister Modi’s frequent travels, these are anchored in the astute recognition that India’s domestic success is inextricably linked to how it can shape its external environment to national advantage. These visits are indeed furthering India’s strategic and commercial interests and are likely to open up business opportunities. India’s economy is the tenth or the eleventh biggest in the world and is forecasted to reach the third position, after the US and China, in less than fifteen years.

So far India has not converted its newly generated wealth into commensurate global clout. Though a vast nation, India had always punched below its weight on the international stage. India’s huge potential to be a force for stability and an upholder of the rules-based international system is far from being realized. India has to start shaping its own destiny and the fate of its region.

Modern India frisks and frets and alternates between megalomania and melancholia over things as trivial as the result of a cricket match, but suffers in silence the chronic problem of malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of safe drinking water and electricity, just like an old man suffering silently from hardened veins. This is especially observable in the more articulate – I dare not say more intelligent – class, who have turned themselves into commentators of the national ills, oozing out on to the media every day an overwhelming sense of helplessness and spreading depression of spirits just as some infectious disease. Some of these scholars and experts are indeed ashamed of our own country, of our farmers and coolies, and our own customs and languages, and arts and literature, and have positioned themselves in their ivory towers so that the din and the clutter of real life never actually bother them.

India 3.0 will be built on the answer to the question as to why Indians are individually mature but politically and nationally mere children. With Narendra Modi coming to power as the prime minister in the 2014 general elections, India finally liberated itself from a dynastic national leadership. The Indian nation finally realized that its potential is yet to be explored. India only needs a system to put the nation in running order, something that it woefully lacks.

India 3.0 would essentially demand a change of ideology for bringing such an order into place. The family-minded Indian must be changed into a socially-minded Indian, and the pet ideas of the elite and age-old notions of caste must be overthrown. The incubus of official privilege and corruption must be killed. The process will be slow and laborious, but it is already at work. India 3.0 is invisible today, but the idea is penetrating an increasing number of Indian minds as an inevitable dawn. Having presented a general profile of modern India, including its roots and aspirations, the book will now take a look at the India 2020 vision of Dr A.

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