India is a country of contrasts. A country where the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir and the Thar desert are under the same banner. A country which hosts 22 national languages. A country where Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and many more live together. A country where uncountable palates exist. As one ponders over this, to the mind, it becomes a wonder that so many diverse cultures came together to form a country. One that would change the shape of the world.

Most ancient civilizations fell. The Romans didn’t see another Caesar. Nobody in Greece could fill Plato or Aristotle’s shoes. The Mayans declined from a population of 28,000 to 1000 in one city.

But what about us? We have expanded in numbers and are are still producing luminaries like Dr Jagadish Chandra Bose, Dr CV Raman and JRD Tata.

We have hefty resources too. It’s estimated that from 1765 to 1938, the British looted almost 45 trillion dollars from India!

Yet there is no dearth in our resources.

After battling the wheel of time for millennia, our culture is still intact. In fact, people from other countries have appreciated our culture.

India has been invaded countless times by the Persians, Greeks, Huns, Turks, Mughals and the British. And in its history spanning thousands of years, India has not invaded a single country. Rather, it is an indefatigable advocate of world peace.

All these facts show that India is a booming, burgeoning country. But we have a lot more in store. Each one of us should shove as much coal as they can so the boiler of India can keep puffing for ages to come.