Let's celebrate a New India!

Well this is a small story my brother sent to me, makes me feel more proud of being a Indian.

"In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid. For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late)Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastriji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food (Hail the Green Revolution). Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA and it took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador inWashington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years."

Dean, Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai