The Great Indian Dream

Let us dream collectively and participate in making it happen!

- Gurucharan Raghunathan

"What is our National Animal? National Bird? National sport? National fruit? National Anthem?" We have been nurtured with many similar national symbols or identities of India since it is puerility which primarily shapes the perception of India to the world. But, there is no 'National Dream' defined by any of our countrymen as such, just like any American or Chinese has. Though the fundamental thought behind every Indian is to foresee India as a developed nation, there is no collective dream to achieve in the years to come. Different people have different thoughts, assumptions and roadmaps in their own ways towards their self driven ideologies. But, the objective to be accomplished by us, as a country, is still ambiguously positioned in the global stage.

The late Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had first coined an ad hoc dream to the Indian youth by defining 'India 2020'. His book has some foundational bricks to cultivate the thought of building a National dream amongst the young population of the country. Our present Prime Minister's 'Make in India' serves the purpose to some extent of reflecting the fact to the world that India has become a destination of plenty of manufacturing business opportunities for global investors and 'Swachh Bharat' also in its own ways creates a new internal perception yet not strong enough to claim as the Great Indian Dream. Consequently, we need to define and derive a positioning of a typical Indian's dream to the global audience which has to be the fundamental aspiration of every citizen of the country.