Query

What is India? Is it:

• Overwhelmingly religious?


• Deeply anti-scientific?


• Exclusively hierarchical?


• Fundamentally un-sceptical?


• Rational or traditional?


• A Developing nation or an IT Super Power


• Unity in Diversity?

Can one:

• Measure India with western yardsticks?


• Comprehend the “Indian Standard time”?


• Expect a “No, Sorry, I can not” from an Indian?


• Recognize a typical Indian?


• Trace the colonial footprints on the Indian mind-set?

- VelaSwami