Can India Be a Superpower

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Essay writing -- Can India become a Super Power Can Indian Become A Superpower? “Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength”, said Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, whom we all know as an ex-President, a great scientist and the ‘Missile man of India’. Dr.Kalam’s mission in life, from a small town Rameswaram to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, has been to make India a superpower by 2020 through his work and motivation to the people of India. But first, we must know what the term ‘Superpower’ actually means. A superpower is a country with a dominant position in the international system, which has the ability to influence events in its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests. However, in a deeper sense, a country which fulfils the following parameters is a superpower: (i) A strong political system which is democratically elected. (ii) Economic stability with productive reforms. (iii) Trained manpower with a manageable amount of population. (iv) Cultural & regional unity within (v) High level of technical expertise & defence capabilities. Though India is the world’s biggest democracy and has a strong political system, yet to be a superpower, we have to completely eradicate some weeds from our system such as corruption and nepotism. The world corruption watchdog, Transparency International, has ranked India as the 87th most corrupt country in its latest report, which emphasizes how deep-rooted the corruption is in India. But at the same time, we see people like Anna Hazare come forward and force the Government to redraft the Lokpal Bill in the Parliament. His fast was not only an eye-opener for the Government but also for the people to come forward and support such movements, which will highly benefit the nation to be superpower in the coming years.

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