TOPIC : INDIA vs BHARAT

Bharat and India are not separate pieces of land.

However, they are separate states of mind.

While India believes in the West, Bharat reposes its trust in the ancient culture of the land.
While India looks towards the west for solutions, Bharat looks within for solutions.
The Indian outlook is materialistic, while the Bharathiya ethos views spirit as primary and
believes in the spiritual approach.
While India believes in self-indulgence, Bharat believes in sacrifices.
While India believes in individualism, Bharat believes in family values.

The list seems to be endless.

However the truth stands so; while half of the nation has moved up the status of India, the other half
is still in the archaic remains of Bharat.
Our nation today stand divided, apart from religion and states, in its representational form.
On one hand where it represents future world leader, India, on the other it remains a nation put down
by poverty and corruption, Bharat.
While our economists and educationalists are scaling heights in the world giving name and fame to
India, the fact remains that we have one of the highest illiteracy rate in Bharat.
Furthermore, we are moving towards creating the gap between India and Bharat; current example
being the uprise of Naxal movements.

India, a country or better known as sub-continent stands on two pillars, one made up of gold and
other with rusted pig iron.
Now it’s high time to think about the pillar of rusted iron if we intend the nation to stand tough in the
coming era
A country where more than 456 million people or about 42% of the population living below the
new international poverty line of $1.25 per day
When there is no bread for over 42 % of populace among us, 58 % are fighting for more butter.

This is the story of Harry and Hari. Harry belongs to the urban India whereas Hari is a fellow from
one of the villages in Bharat. Harry earns a six-figure salary, owns a flat and a swanky car.Harry goes
to pubs, parties and loves socializing on Twitter & Facebook. On the contrary, Hari is an agricultural
labourer. He doesn’t have a pukka house and barely manages to feed five members of his
family.Despite so many differences, Harry and Hari share a few similarities: first, they are Indians;
second, they are in their early twenties and well qualified to be counted amongst the youth of the
nation.
The case of Harry and Hari is a classics example of the great divide between India and Bharat. The
famous BRIC report by Goldman Sachs says that India is poised to be the world’s second largest
economy in the coming years.But can a country with hundreds of thousands of Harrys and millions
of Haris ever achieve such greatness? Well, I doubt it. Let’s deconstruct the story a bit.There are two
types of youths residing in metros, tier 1&2 cities. Either they are born with a silver spoon or they
chase it. Availability of resources, platform & environment makes the chase easier.

Eventually, they get the spoon and join the class of haves. But people like Hari don’t have the access
to resources. They face the negligence at all stages of the life. He never gets the benefit
of reservation in educational institutions like IITs, IIMs & medical colleges, or for that matter,
internet, banking services & even necessities of the daily life are not procured to them.The media,
which claims cases like Jessica Lal to be a proof of its service to the democracy, has also failed to do
its bit for the underprivileged. All political parties are aware of this ever-increasing gap between the
haves and have-nots.Sadly, no one seems in a mood to bridge it. The bridging of gap may alter the
political equations, especially for the regional parties. Amidst all this, one thing is certain – the war
of India versus Bharat is weakening the very idea of India. However, the big question remains – Will
Harry ever feel the pain of Hari?

After 63 years of an independence that was hard fought, a comparison like this seems pathetic to
me.So, what went wrong with us? What stunted our development and prosperity?

Our population?

The British rule?

The multi-party democracy?

The world powers conspiring against us?

The 'socialist' operating principles?

Over reliance on agriculture?

Faulty planning?

What, exactly what?

Nothing. Actually nothing went wrong. Everything is according to plan. We have used 'socialism' as
a term under which we have perpetrated protectionism, patronage and favouritism.We have created
large public enterprises and then deliberately made them inefficient to meet specific needs.We had
built a 'license raj' to favour a few rich at the cost of encouraging enterprise and equitable
development across the country.We have ensured little pockets of industrialisation to ensure
concentration of wealth and power. Thereby corruption, greed and moral decay.We have not invested
in sustainable farming to cater to a few enterprises and move people forcibly into cash cropping,
thereby making them slaves of the public food distribution system.We let food grain rot in the open
but have not built food transportation and storage systems across the country, to allow regular import
of food grain.We encourage large-scale migration of villagers into cities to create industrial slums
and a labour force for daily menial work.

We consciously have not helped preserve the lifestyles of our tribals and helped them sustain to
allow large industrial enterprises to 'redeem' them through polluting projects. We spend less than
0.5% of our GDP on agriculture and less than 5% on education. We allow more than 200,000 farmers
in debt due to failed cash crops to commit suicide but will not create enablers to sustainable rural
living. In fact in 2010 alone close to 900 suicides have taken place in Baramati while the government
spendsRs.25 crores after a terrorist called Ajmal Kasab.
We talk of adding close to 40 million every year to the "grand Indian middle class",but do not talk
about the fact that a family's food intake reduced by 100 kgs per year in one decade in 2007.

We talk of overtaking this economy and that economy and having some of the highest number of
billionaires, but our Human Development Index is one of the worst ever, we have world's highest
number of malnourished people and around 40% of our children below 5 years of age are
underweight.

We are systematically working towards the collapse of the villages to ensure mass scale migration
and creation of an urban poor populace that will crave for jobs, food and shelter. And give you votes
against promises of redemption.If you just sit back and take an unemotional, detached look at the
economics of poverty in our country, you will realise that it is not the cause but the outcome.The
poverty indices are not a cause of embarrassment but are actually desired.

It’s high time we do something before lose our identity as an Indian or Bhartiya . Without such
efforts, ‘One India’ would be a distant dream.
Before i end I would end up saying

“ THE ONLY PLACE WHERE SUCCESS COMES BEFORE WORK IS IN THE

DICTIONARY “

Let we the youths of the nation gain our inspiration from the below said lines to nullify the
differences prevailing at present in our country and work together for the betterment of our
very own “INDIA”

“ DAGAR KATHIN JARUR HAIN,

RASTE DUNDHANE HAIN HAME,

DAGAR KATHIN JARUR HAIN,

RASTE DUNDHANE HAIN HAME,

MANJIL, DUR HO TO KYA,

NAMUMKIN TO NAHI....

Thank you for providing me with this wonderful opportunity to share my views on the topic
“ INDIA VS BHARAT “

JAI HIND...