IT sector is on boom, Aviation industry is flying high, new businesses are developing fast, Sensex is showing record break markings and India is getting global recognition. True, but, where is that India which has a literacy rate of 61% placing it at no.107 at the world literacy scenario, farmers from Andhra Pradesh to Maharashtra are attempting suicide due to debt loads,  industry is given primary importance over poverty and where poverty itself just becoming the election agenda to attract votes which gets bogged down later in the clashes of political parties.

Again, this is India where various non profit organizations and NGOs are stepping in to improve social and humanitarian reforms, farmers are getting subsidies, children are getting free education and Indian railway is making provisions for employment. But, again, is this India which is divided regionally as well as economically over globalization, where people protest against the development of a chemical hub in the area like Nandigram, a chief minister manages welfare of her own community over others, where caste is given importance over profession, where political party like CPM, talks of equal financial status and evokes incidents like Nandigram for its own benefits?

These and many more problems are in the store to be solved. This irony of India shining has become chanting cynicism toward development which is a bitting satire on our developmental existence. And the basic question with underscored challenge is to think beyond this irony and cynicism for acute development and India shining.

Yes I agree with you in the Nandigram case but the intention here is the violence which should not happen at any cost in any democratic nation.