TOWARDS AN ADVANCED NATION

TOWARDS AN ADVANCED NATION Result Oriented Work I NDIA, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with 1.34 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. India has become one of the fastest growing major economies and is considered a newly industrialized country. It consists of 29 states and 7 union territories. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan shares his wisdom regarding a few of the challenges faced by the citizens of this country and hopes that if we all work together in unity in spite of our differences we could be an advanced nation. The Solution to Corruption Every Indian complains about corruption, but no one tries to get to the root cause of this phenomenon. The Gandhian movement in the first half of the twentieth century was, in a sense, an anti-corruption movement. In the mid 1970’s Jayprakash Narayan’s ‘total revolution’ was a strong movement against corruption. Then followed V.P. Singh's movement in the late 1980’s and the fourth in this sequence was Anna Hazare’s movement in August 2011. The criterion to judge the success of these movements is not the crowds they draw, but the results they produce. It is an undeniable fact that in terms of results, all these previous movements completely failed to achieve their declared goal. All these anti-corruption movements made their demands from the system. But it is not the system that is responsible for corruption; it is the human mind. The pursuit of wealth will only lead to discontentment, while the pursuit of wisdom will always lead to contentment. Only the content can abandon corrupt practices.