It seems that in our country, forty-eight
years are more than enough to wipe out the spirit that has hailed India as an
agricultural country for many centuries. In 1965, the then PM Lal Bahadur
Shastri gave the slogan of ‘Jai Jawan,
Jai Kisan’—a slogan that not only swept the nation in a wave of collective
ardour. This slogan marked the dawn of a new age of individual and national
progress that helped India establish
itself as an emerging...
