Author: M S Sabnis
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 316
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817276127
Description
An incisive look at the men and events that shaped the country in the post-independence era, and identifies the areas where self-interest of the privileged few has taken precedence over the welfare of the millions.
The author pinpoints the highly disturbing causative factors underlying the malady that today afflicts the nation, and goes on to suggest measures, which if taken seriously, may help alleviate the people's privations and hardship. The ubiquitous phenomenon of corruption, indiscipline and deteriorating work culture, excessive interference by political masters in administration and near-absence of social activism by the intelligentsia are among the factors which have favored incompetent men to come to power and to rule the country.
He argues that the intelligentsia can, no longer, afford to run away from the hustings which determine the leadership in a democracy.
CONTENTS: India That Never Fades / India That Forever Thrills / The United India that Was before August 1942 / The Indian Renaissance / India's Hopes Dashed / India Wins Freedom and Loses Peace and Unity / India That paid a Heavy Price for Freedom / That Prosperous India / Fifty Years of Freedom I & II /What Ails India's Development? / Fifty Years of Freedom III / India and China / India, China and Pakistan / China's unprovoked Military Aggression / Fifty Years of Freedom IV / India That Never Wavers / India's Democracy / India's Democracy, Bureaucracy and Development/ Why is India's Image Fading / Indiscipline That India Can Ill afford / How soon Will India master the Misfortune? / Let India's Image Brighten Up Again / Is India at the Crossroads? / Epilogue + Appendix A & B.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
India That Never Fades
CHAPTER TWO
India that Forever Thrills
CHAPTER THREE
The United India That was before August 1942 - A World of Dedication
CHAPTER FOUR
The Indian Renaissance
CHAPTER FIVE
India's Hopes DashedùA 'No' to One United India
CHAPTER SIX
India Wins Freedom and Loses Peace and UnityùTriumph and Tragedy
CHAPTER SEVEN
India that paid a Heavy Price for Freedom
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Prosperous India
That Was Plundered
CHAPTER NINE
Fifty Years of Freedom - I
CHAPTER TEN
Fifty Years of Freedom - II
CHAPTER ELEVEN
What Ails India's Development?
CHAPTER TWELVE
Fifty Years of Freedom - III
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
India and China
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
India, China and Pakistan
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
China's Unprovoked Military Aggression (1962)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Fifty Years of Freedom - IV
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
India that never Wavers
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
India's Democracy - Must Rest on Good Education
CHAPTER NINETEEN
India's Democracy, Bureaucracy and Development ù Need for 'Social' Reforms
CHAPTER TWENTY
Why is India's Image Fading ?ùPower, Corruption and Scams
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Indiscipline that India can Illafford
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
How Soon will India master the Misfortune?
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
Let India's Image Brighten Up Again
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
Is India at the Crossroad?
Epilogue : Verse with Veteran's Verve
Indices
Appendix A
Appendix B