The Once and Future Kingdom ...

Just as the legend grew, so did the empire; yet fall did come swift, once the legend showed mortal weakness. There was no Merlyn to guide the economy beyond what it could have achieved, upon its soaring hopes and hollow growth, upon the timid ideals and flaccid zeal. Growth is worth only to the extent of its depth. A tree grows tall and strong only so long as its roots grow wide and deep; lest it stays a climber, ever so dependent upon an and any external support. I am reminded of the Gandhian dream of village as the centre of growth. Unless we are self-reliant, we will always rely on others for our growth and prosperity. What is sad is that this nation, this land has nothing we can not create into wealth and fuel our growth and prosperity. Scientific knowledge used merely for reducing the western cost of production, economic understanding only to fuel the desire of FII driven speculative "growth" and legal knowledge only used for the quelling of rights of our own, instead of upholding the unity and collective rights and growth of all men under the same flag.

But no one heard, and here we are at the twilight of our once "future kingdom" ... whether this twilight is of the setting glory or of the rising new hope, is yet to be seen, and is only in our own hands.



Reference:

Boom to gloom: Indian economy saw it all in 2008