decline of a civilization...!

The Indian civilization has been under decline for about 1000 years. No wonder we have been under foreign rule for 700 years until 1947 when we managed to regain our independence. Initially we failed to face the challenge from foreign muslim invaders who who took advantage of persistent disunity among our countrymen and ruled us till 1757. Therefter we had to face the music under the British rule. There was belief in those times that Indians lack the capabilities to rule themselves.

Its the same country which had given birth to scientists like Aryabhatt, Brahma Gupta, Varahamihir who made significant discoveries in the field of science, mathematics, astronomy etc. A sense of reasoning used to dominate public debate rather than following old dogmas. Our country used to account for 25% of the world's GDP. We had strong trading relations with Europe, gulf countries and china. We were the pioneers in number of industries in that era.

But as time passed ,we lost our sense of reasoning ,became attached to superstitions. People fought with each other on petty issues like caste and language. The process of decay accentuted with the resulting poverty as it corroded our moral system as people resorted to all sorts of ways to meet their basic needs. The present state needs no explanation.

Lets hope that we regain our former position and rise above the humiliating mess of archaic systems which we have created for ourselves.