What makes Indians flourish despite obstacles like corruption, braindrain, poverty, and population crisis?

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What makes Indians flourish despite obstacles like corruption, braindrain, poverty, and population crisis?
Everyone continues to be amazed at how Indians survive amp flourish, despite obstacles like corruption, braindrain, poverty, inflation and religious and lingual diversity. There is something very unique about us Indians and our social tolerance levels. What is that INDIAN factor that keeps us motivated? Could it be something we inherited? Could it be something handed down to us over the ages? Is it something that we happened to retain in us, despite several invasions? Perhaps, the key to Indias fasttrack progress lies in the discovery of this hidden Indian factor within us! Your answers could inspire and motivate the Indian youth to nurture, nourish and flourish!

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Thnks for the question.brWe the Indians are highly elastic genetically, implying that our shock absorber is highly adaptable to socioeconomic changes. As an earth scientist, I do not wish to say that India was the only nucleus from where all other races or civilization spread across the globe, making us the oldest race of people. Life evolved on this unique planet more than some million years ago inspite of the planet coming into existence some , million years ago. I am talking of Life forms manifestations of our perceptions mono cellular to poly cellular. Man is a very late entrant in this arena, he came just million years ago. In between period life evolved in its most dramatic and prolific dimensions with extinctions and exterminations of which we know very little. Giant rulers like dinosaurs came and vanished much much before man and his cogenitors could come on this planet. What I am trying to highlight is that it is the survival of the fittest and that is through natural selection , I call it Darwins truth. It is valid even today on day to day basis on individual scale or community scales and even in the corporate world. The Indians are gifted to stand out as the fittest to survive. The adaptability to a situation calls for vision for the progeny and the Indians have it in plenty. This is the reason India is a land of multicultural old and new value systems existing side by side.brbrThis vision is the cutting edge that each Indian possesses. This provides him ability of tolerance, assimilation, integration and an instinct to survive against all odds. The multiple invasions and plundering could not destroy this ethos, so unique to Indians, which can be seen frozen in time in our monuments and heritage. We are so heterogeneous in our sociocultural behavior like beads of different colour but, forming a beautiful necklace. We as Indians have a high order of resilient capacity that makes us move forward and progress. Yes we have progressed a lot through the ages, hundreds of years BC to over years AD. Our rate of progress has been low in the contemporary world mainly for two reasons We as a nation are just years old we are just infant against some of the giant countries against whom we are pitched often for comparison. Low literacy rate that suited the agenda of common politics. Literacy brings knowledge and light for vision. It is the Öjha like mindset that has put the literacy programmes on low gear to create darkness around the common citizen so that he or she remains deprived of liberty to use hisher full potential and capability of reasoning. The same people shines on leaving the Indian shores in all spheres of skills and activities. Being Indian is not confined to the generation of post independence only, India is older than any definition of Indianness. It is this Indianness that created Mahatma Gandhi out of a practicing barrister, it is the same Indianness that gave us Mahatma Budh, emperor Ashoka, and Akbar. It is hard to believe we had Harshvardhana an emperor who use to ritually donate his all possessions at the bank of holy Ganga. We had Mahrishi Dadhichi who gave away his skeleton even for others use Can we say these are legends only, if yes, then may be the coming generation would consider the satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi a piece of fiction one day. But, I am very optimistic, our heritage remains in our hearts and by natural processes it is passed down the line to the generations, our attire has changed and so has the permissiveness. The increase in permissiveness has enhanced our tolerance towards what was a taboo earlier. An Indian is not identified by what religion he or she practice or what language he or she speaks but, by his belongings to this land of diverse culture and heritage of which he or she is a bonafide owner and carries it forward progressively. I feel there is nothing hidden to be discovered about Indianness, as I said earlier, we as Indian are highly elastic and are amenable to change with time and space. brThnks