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Few Ingredients for India 2047 - Partnership with Rest of the World and a Rising Generation

The Faces of a Rising India   Take millions of 15ish year olds in the nation , and look at the volume of high achievement now emerging from India's largest school board. In the 2025 CBSE Class 10 results, 199,944 students — 8.43 percent of all candidates — scored above 90 percent, and 45,516 students scored above 95 percent. To grasp how recent this scale is, rewind two decades: a student scoring above 90 percent was a district-level celebrity whose name appeared in the local newspaper. Today, nearly two lakh of them emerge from a single board in a single year. CBSE's Class 10 pass percentage itself rose to 93.66 percent in 2025, with the number of students scoring above 90 and 95 percent climbing steadily across 2024 and 2025.   The state boards tell the same story at their own vast scale. Consider Andhra Pradesh. In 2026, the state declared an overall Class 10 pass percentage of 85.25 percent among more than 6.4 lakh students. In 2024, 69.26 percent of all its Cla...
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Saving an Independent Nation from Foreign Influence - India for Self reliance, India for the World

There is an old adage in geopolitics — a nation that cannot feed, clothe, defend, and digitally connect itself does not truly own its future, regardless of how loudly it celebrates its sovereignty on Independence Day. India, with 1.4 billion citizens and a civilisation that once produced a quarter of the world's GDP, has spent the better part of seven decades after Independence in a strange in-between place — too proud to be a vassal, too dependent to be a leader. Today, that is changing. Slowly, unevenly, but unmistakably, India is rediscovering an ancient truth: that real self-reliance is not isolation, but the strength to engage the world from a position of internal competence. Atmanirbhar Bharat — a self-reliant India — is not a retreat from globalisation . It is the foundation upon which a meaningful globalisation must rest.   Why Self-Reliance Matters More for India Than for Anyone Else   A small country can afford to depend on others. A nation of 1.4 billion people ...
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