The increased confidence resulting from a surging Sensex and economic growth has led to a lot of interesting developments in India over the last few years. Corporate confidence to do overseas acquisitions and the ability to dream big are the good outcomes, when done in moderation.
A few other developments are surreal. Industrialists who were part of the establishment even during the sickening socialist/license raj are now donning new robes using words like innovation and synergy in every other sentence. When it came to using the system to maintain their monopolies they were definitely leaders. But characters to lead the nation forward these are not.
There also have been television programs about bringing grassroots changes in India. The efforts are in the right direction, and some of the guests may indeed be sincere, but the cast of these shows makes one laugh at the irony.
For too long, Indians have been taken for a ride by movie stars, cricket heroes and populist leaders who encouraged idol-worship for their own good. It is close to impossible to find any untainted among them.
An illiterate democracy is never much of a democracy.
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