Dear Vacuum-Thinkers,
Before forming uneducated opinions for your unsuspecting audience to follow here, kindly review the following website regarding Indian Presidents, VPs, Prime Ministers etc till date.
http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/186926
If you just start with the Presidents list itself, there are, 4 Muslims, 1 Sikh, the first and last Presidents were both from the so-called lowest strata of society, the current President is a Muslim. The other lists are extremely similar in structure also.
Now, take a look at the Prime Ministers' list - the longest tenure is that of a woman - Indira Gandhi.
India has around 30 official national languages, each with it's numerous dialects - some of them being the ancient Sanskrit, the Muslim Urdu, the Christian English language - and these are also languages that are being fully used in day to day life.
Indian girls wear saris which is basically hindu, salwar-kameez (muslim), and skirts / trousers / frocks (Christian) as a matter of course.
In it's 55 years since independence in 1947, the Muslim population of India has grown from 8% to more than 12%. Compare this to it's two neighbours, who essentially broke away exactly 55 years ago from India - in Pakistan Hindus have reduced from 25% to 1%, and in Bangladesh from 35% to 7%.
Now, let's talk about the US - independent since 1776, how many non-Christian Presidents do you have, how many Muslims, blacks, chinese, japanese, women ? How many languages can you boast of ? How many of your people have worn non-christian dresses even once in their lives ?
It's time that you guys really made a concerted effort to educate - first your staff, and then your audience - about the real world, and it's people. If your centuries old attitude of keeping yourselves in ignorance about the virtues as well as vices, the history, culture, religion, decisions of various nations does not change, you are depriving yourselves of a fuller understanding of people of this world, and cheating the basic unwritten oath of your profession. Journalism shouldn't just be about good presentation and sensationalisation - at least a reasonable element of truth, knowledge, and wisdom needs to prevail to separate real journalism from cheap gossip.
Dear vacuum-thinkers, get real. US is a great country also - starting from scratch, they have achieved so much materialistically. Also, there are a lot of
good human values still remaining in a lot of it's people. However, in India, religion, culture, humanity and people are about everyday life - we don't just preach and put all the humanitarian words in our constitution and speeches - practising good humanity, and justice and equality is the essence of being Indian, and it takes a rational and good human being to fathom the depth of this conviction.