Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our
achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success
stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. WHY?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into self-sustaining,
self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media
is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel
Aviv once and I was reading a Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a
lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had
struck. But the front page of the newspaper had a picture of a Jewish gentleman
who in five years had transformed his desert land into an orchid and a granary.
It was this inspiring that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings,
bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other
news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why
are we so NEGATIVE?
Why are we, as a nation
so obsessed with foreign things?
We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect
comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when
a 14-year-old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal
in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you
and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is
not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
