India's Top Five Achievements Since Independence ( 1947 )

[iam not greek]

Many things are yet to be achieved. India hasn't achieved anything from where i see.

 

[Chanakyaa]

Many things are yet to be achieved. India hasn't achieved anything from where i see.

Yes, The Glass May Seem to be "Half Empty" , Yet.. Its Half Filled !!


Don't Blame me.. Its my Blood Group : B+ ( Be Positive.... )

 

[iam not greek]

Yes, The Glass May Seem to be "Half Empty" , Yet.. Its Half Filled !!

A lot has to be achieved in social front. economically we may have improved but socially we are still backward.

 

[anant_s]

Here is my list of top 5 achievements

1. Operation Flood.
While green revolution changed the agricultral landscape, White revolution changed the the social landscape. Considering the time it was launched and given the orthodox society and position of women, it was an idea that taught women to stand on their feet and become financially independent. For athird world country it was nothing short of a miracle.

2. General Elections and Election Commission
In a world where Democracy is still a distant dream for lot of mankind, we have done well not just to preserve it but also contributing to its growth. General elctions or Dance of Democracy is a celebration of this rather rare feat of Indian society. Election commission owes a Lions share of credit for keeping our elections relatively clean and efficient. And yes how about the fact that EVMs aren't used anywhere on such a large and massive scale.

3. Indian Nuclear program
Probably one of the very few nuclear programs in the world that didnot start with sole intention of creating weapons. With very little help in this hi-end field India today has a proud and unmatched record of Safety in its nuclear plants and not to mention Non proliferation. BARC's contribution to agriculture (food irradiation), industry (Radio-isotopes, nano materials), Medicine (Radio-therapy) is of immense value considering that it saves a huge amount of foreign exchange.

4. Railways
Ok thats from British Raj era, but even the erstwhile rulers wouldnot have imagined IR turning into a Giant it is now. Well the trains Don't always run of time, there are accident news more often than not, Political abuse by its ministers and so on, but one look at the numbers of IR and we may be forgiven to thinks that IR exists only for Trivia buffs.
To quote from India Today, What Keeps India moving, People persistance and Indian Railways.

5. Bollywood

Kynoki Hamare paas hindi cineMAA hai

Lights Camera Action...

Guess this is why Shammi Kapoorji was crooning " Kis ko pyar karo..."

 

[shahadat hussain]

Ashok Sen getting the Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic award as of 2012. The prize was awarded to only 9 physicist around the world.

He is one of the most prominent string theorists in the world, working at the Harish Chandra Institute (HRI) at Allahabad. This year he received the Milner award for fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, worth 3 million USD, the award with the biggest money prize on earth and two times as much as the Nobel prize. His work on S-duality has had a huge impact on theoretical physics.

He has been the recipient of other prestigious awards too - S.S Bhatnagar Award (highest award for science in India), Padma Shri, ICTP award (mathematicans, physicists under 40 from in developing world). Of his nearly 200 papers, 40 of them have over 100 citations each.


Clearly a stupendous achievement for Scientific Research in India!

 

[Nan Yang]

India did not collapse last year as I had expected. That was an achievement.

 

[shahadat hussain]

India did not collapse last year as I had expected. That was an achievement.

Fool's expectation eh ?

 

[genmirajborgza786]

a general English medium education syllabus of good standards
, i ve seen their books in jeddah my friend use to study in indian embassy school ,English, guided English,maths,science,social studies,history,geography with only one subject of hindi now thats one hell of an achievement these guys can basically communicate with the world with science,commerce & arts & thats the most important part
its the greatest achievement followed by, IT, green revolution & industrialization we use to make fun of the indian car ambassador but ignored the fact that while our beautiful Honda civics were imported their fat car was their own & it gave them a base & we see the results of that base today in the form of indica,palio,maruti,mahendra scorpio etc
& for that today i envy that very fat car

 

[KRAIT]

@genmirajborgza786 Great post. Buddy We have long road to travel. Hope we get rid of our basic problems and also advance in all fields simultaneously.

 

[3Idiots]

Yes, The Glass May Seem to be "Half Empty" , Yet.. Its Half Filled !!


Don't Blame me.. Its my Blood Group : B+ ( Be Positive.... )

Mine is A+.

And indeed I am "a positive".

 

[peep]

drunkards and idiots pulled us into the democratic fold when it was endangered in '78 by Indira


and most importantly,

A country with 4/5th Hindu population which has

1. Present Prime Minister : sikh
2. Present Army General : Sikh
3. Present Defence-Minister: Christian/Atheist
4. Missile-man : Muslim
5. Leader of the majority party : Christian/Italian
6. Missile Woman : Christian ( Tessy thomas )
7. Chief Election Commissioner : Muslim

 

[jbond197]

Someone put this Bangladeshi back in the Bay of Bengal. If it wasn't for Indian help during 1971, he and his family would still be licking pakistani boots.

You know what I hate Indira Gandhi for helping these Bangladeshis in 1971, the very same people who killed thousands of Indian Hindus in 47 for the creation of Pakistan.. Indira Gandhi should have just shut the borders for them and let Pakistanis do whatever they wanted to these ungrateful people..

 

[3Idiots]

How about .... Bollywood.

or in general, Tollywood, Mollywood etc.

Has Lata Mangeshkar been given a Bharat Ratna ... or not yet?

If she doesn't ... I don't know who deserves it !!!!!

She's easily more eligible than Sachin ....

Even Big-B could be considered ... or atleast a Padma Vibhushan.

 

[A1Kaid]

Another achievement is 1984 Operation Blue Star authorized by Indira Gandhi which succesfully crushed Sikh insurgency by attacking Amritsar.

 

[3Idiots]

So was the white revolution by Verghese Kurien!!

Thanks Xinix for the awesome thread once again!!

Readily agreed.

Green Revolution brought the food security. It was the first step.

White Revolution / Operation Flood brought the (1) vital proteins into the diet, and (2) purchasing power to the villages.

Verghese Kurien too deserved a Bharat Ratna .... damn, if he wasn't given.