to think about our country...
Xinran, in The Good Women of China, a book she published in 2002, said this about China:
'When China started to open up, it was like a starving child devouring everything within reach indiscriminately. Afterwards, while the world saw a flushed, happy China in new clothes, no longer crying out with hunger, the journalistic community saw a body racked by the pain of indigestion. But it was a body whose brain they could not use, for China's brain had not yet grown the cells to absorb truth and freedom.'
India too has opened up, but it is only for the top 1%, if at all. For the middle classes, many goodies are still out of reach, and for the last rung, which is the majority, the pain of starvation is still their reality...
Though the politicians become louder and louder and use all the rhetoric at their command, the question my mind asks is whether India has 'grown the cells to absorb truth and freedom.'