Random Chance..Gandhi & Tagore

The Indian system has largely failed in delivering on education. Imagine someone born in Urban educated middle class family in India with access to an effective education system and someone born in a village in rural India without electricity and parents are also uneducated. Now that to me is inequity as the school systems are poor in rural India, teachers are ineffective, weak healthcare system and then that child is to make something of his life of which he has no control of till he 7 to 10 years old. Contrast that with me: great schools, well fed, secure middle class home and English education. I am on a supersonic jet compared to my peer group from a typical village India.  So it is at these moments I buy the arguments of the left that we in India don't have our fundamentals in order. In order to make people compete, the ground rules need to be comparable. But in India and several other countries that is not so. Isn't it a random chance that I am born in the top 2% of India's population. We need to give back...

Two of the greatest thinkers of 20th century India, Gandhi and Tagore were introduced by Preacher and Englishman CF Andrews. When one reads through the annals of our history during the past two hundred years it is remarkable to not the number of "foreigners" who have contributed to documenting and sharing the strengths of our Civilization and leaders to the world. Nehru, Gandhi and Tagore had friends and were influenced from people all over the world. Gandhi and Tagore were able to synthesize great thinkers from Tolstoy, Emerson, Thoreau into their value system. There must be a reason in the grand design that the political spectrum in India has declined to such a nadir from that height. But there is a dawn emerging..