A new India where all citizens have an equal shot at pursuit of their own happiness | The Indian Express

A new India where all citizens have an equal shot at pursuit of their own happiness | The Indian Express

Written by Janmejaya Sinha |Updated: September 26, 2019 11:14:56 am

The writer is chairman, Asia Pacific, Boston Consulting Group. Views are personal.

A new India where all citizens have an equal shot at pursuit of their own happiness

My own dream for India is one where it has addressed the crises in water, health and education.

Indian urban conglomerations that have become like plastic sheets and do not absorb rain water have taken firm steps to address this. (Representational)

Indulging one of my hobbies of listening to great speeches, I turned the other day to Martin Luther King’s immortal “I have a dream” speech, where he talked of the “fierce urgency of now” to address the tribulations suffered by the “negro seared in the flames of withering injustice”. I feel “the tranquilising drug of gradualism” is not good enough to allow Indians a fair chance if we do not address five major crises enveloping India. My own dream for India is one where it has addressed the crises in: