My Country - India

A grand topic such as “My Country”, always begets a plethora of emotions and divinity in oneself. Given the emotional connect with the topic, an individual always has huge backdrop of his own memory to compile upon and recollect, all the bridges in his memory that join his persona and the persona of his Country.

My country INDIA, our country INDIA, The Country INDIA is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth. Thus followed the two centuries of oppression by the british empire. Since 1947, india has steadly been climbing the ladder of success and triumph in fields of education, hospitality, medicine and in the race of being a super power.

The idea of this report is not to glorify the credentials of the persona of our country, but to lay stress upon why does india always come out on the tops. The inherenet positivity and social coherence that india as a country has imbibed in its roots, where does it come from.

The feel good factor, that comes with hearing the name India, why is it there ?
Why has not India attacked any other country in the past 10,000 years? Why after so much cultural and ethnic differences do we find India still being hailed as the largest democracy?

The nineteenth-century British historian, Grant Duff, claimed that "Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago." To say this about a country that does not just tolerate race and religion, but accounts for it. A country with the richest heritage and longest history. 

            Imagine a country surrounded by both landmasses and water bodies, a terrain range of plateaus, mountains, valleys, beaches, cliffs, fertile plains and rapidly blossoming cityscapes. A country from where any of its 365/366 sunsets in a year are lens-worthy.

            Here we begin upon the journey into our own country, India.