That is simply not true. We take great pride in our country. Even when we had nothing we used to take pride in our 'culture'. Today, we are secure enough to list things like IT and space research as our achievements.
This is true. But we have to start somewhere. We do have the eco system in our country on paper. In India nobody wants to start anything new. Even most of our current startups are copies of proven concepts elsewhere.
We should take pride in our achievements. We should also criticize the planning process and institutions. Only when we expect some standards, will we demand them. They are independent and academic discourse should be kept separate from how people should feel about India's achievements. You can see one more example of more patriotism here. Some people complain about DRDO, based on eviednce of its practices.
But all Indians feel secure that they have a ballistic missile arsenal.
I completely agree. Every wants to become a bank clerk. I don't understand why people would do engineering to do that. We should blame parents for making students join courses that don't connect with their interest. From then on, its a chain of events. The students could simply do a degree like arts where they get a degree while pursuing their interest. Still they would be eligible for a clerk ojb.
Indians are obsessed about 'fairness'
We also think our English is 'bad'. We should just think our accent is just one among many. It becomes 'unsexy'
because we speak without confidence. This IMO is worse than the fairness. English prevents us from pursuing the business and worrying about 'learning' and overlearning English.
If people can be taught that language is more about comprehension instead of perfect grammar and accent, it would do wonders to confidence among Indians.
We also think we should do things only if they produce something on par with something produced today in the West.
For example, everyone thinks a new engine is not worth producing in India because we don't know this and we don't know that. But it is actually simpler to dig through expired patents(may be 12 years old technolgy) and build some working engine. We have a misplaced notion that this 12 years must have caused so much technology rifts that it cannot be bridged.
