[softy54534]

We, Indians, are a diverse lot speaking many different languages, following different faiths, having a lot of differences in educational attainments, employment opportunities, cultural growth and the state of development -- urbanization and industrialization -- region-wise! One may say that it is difficult to speak of the country as a whole when it comes to the essential features of growth as the same is uneven and haphazard as someone has already observed! Still the people here like life as it is lived here in spite of the slow rate of growth of the economy or the lack of any growth in some places! Not more than a small percentage of population is going mad or killing themselves or others or migrating to better pastures merely because of economic hardships! We live with all the askew development, corruption in a small way or in enormous proportion in the high places and the uneven flow of rewards for good conduct and punishments meted out for wrongful conduct! We can perhaps attribute this resilience to centuries of oppression through foreign domination and survival against very high odds! It is in the culture!