Reflections

While we can justifiably be proud of our achievements of the past 40 years in the
fields of agriculture, industry and technology, we have not achieved much in areas of
human care and development and in the ultimate analysis,that is what matters.
Some years ago, I had once asked an American, who had lived in India for quite a few
years co-ordinating for the Ford Foundation, what he thought of India's development.
He likened to a glass, half filled with milk and said, you can either call it half filled or
half empty. Perhaps, a more appropriate way of looking at the glass would be as half
filled and half empty, for that is what the Indian reality is. And the irony of this reality
is that with the growing population, the glass keeps getting bigger every day, and as
we fill it with more milk, it also remains more empty.
MID DAY– 28 th April 1989
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