Key Points
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.".
Years ago, these magical words of Indias first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, appeared to me as rhetoric...
They would bathe at ponds before daybreak, wash this saree, spread it out to dry from the shrubbery such that it also made for a makeshift screen to preserve their modesty, and wear it again for the day once it dried..
According to British economist Angus Maddison, India provided more than one-fourth of the worlds GDP in AD 1000, i.e. the Rajput era..
No country can make its future great without first bridging the hearts of its citizens, no matter how deep its pockets are..
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