However, the world has changed and now skepticism,cynicism and doubt rise to the surface in my appraisal of almost everything.
Suma, the use of the word "world" make it a general statement. Instead if you had used the word "US", I would agree with you. you meant to say "US" instead.
I recently visited India (Jan 2006) with my 22 year old. While there, I as well as my son noticed that the Indian President is a Muslim, the Prime Minister is of the Sikh faith and the number 2 person in the cabinet is a Hindu. The chair of the political party in power is a woman who was Italian (now a naturalized Indian). She is the widow of a former Indian PM who was assassinated. While other nations including the US are speaking about secularism, women's rights etc. etc., this country (the land of Mahatma Gandhi) is actually putting those ideals into practice.
My son was taken aback when he witnessed on TV, the Indian President deftly using computer tools such as PowerPoint to explain to his audience the charts and graphs of the Indian economy. He took live questions from journalists during the press conference. And he was navigating those slides backwards and forwards to explain to the audience his opinion on the Indian economy. Using a tablet PC he drew charts and graphs live to explain his point of view. After all he is just not a Muslim, but a retired world renowned nuclear scientist and the father of the nuclear industry in India. That should tell us why Bush felt comfortable in signing the nuclear deal during his just concluded visit to India.
The Prime Minister is the ex-chairman of the Indian Fed, a professional in his own right. The chair of his political party, Italian born and bred Sonia Gandhi is from the Olivetti family. Very adept at business decisions.
India's rise to power is phenomenal leaving us with no reason to doubt the CIA report that India will be a world power by the year 2020.
So it is not the "world" which is a skeptic and a cynic. Maybe the US,, which I will not debate. |
