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New Year Advice for India...

Robert Clements Robert Clements
06 Jan 2025

And as the New Year begins and we Indians face another year like the rest of the world, let us realise that we are living not in isolation but with the Rest of the World.

In a country that believes in mentors and gurus, we seem to be moving away from the very concept that admonishments are not punishments, but just a course correction, and we as a people are being misguided by national leaders that when developed nations across the seas issue course corrections to us, they are jealous and are trying to derail our economy.

Far from it, this 2025, let us listen to these developed gurus and mentors, like the US and UK, like Germany and other countries with robust democracies and economies and realise that the warnings they give are not to pull us down but for our own good.

And yes, for the good also for the ones in power.

This 2025, when we are told we rank somewhere at the very end of the 'hunger index,' let us not attack the ones who have formulated the index and accuse them of bias but listen to what they say because people are starving, and are jobless, and angry.

This 2025, when we are warned that Freedom of Speech and that Press Freedom are gradually reducing, let us not pooh-pooh the facts but look closely and realise that this is very true. That the freedom we fought for and won in 1947 was not just from the British, but freedom of oppression even from our own leaders.

This 2025, let us stop moving towards nations that have no problem being called bullies. Watching our foreign minister bending over backwards to a bully, China, another like Russia, and North Korea is frightening.

Also, this 2025, do realise that nobody is going to steal the religion that our majority follow away from them. Nobody can, nobody will, and nobody wants to.

Yes, this 2025, let this thought percolate into their minds that being a majority and being made to become fearful of a minuscule minority is not just stupidly silly but a masterful ploy.

It's like a tiger being shown a rabbit and being told the "rabbit will swallow you!"

Cash for votes should be stopped this 2025. Because, soon, you will see your wallets emptying due to taxes increasing to pay for freebies and subsidies.

This 2025, if you don't heed this advice, a bankrupt leadership will order even the air you breathe to be taxed. Maybe the polluted air Delhi and Mumbai breathe today is the forerunner towards a billionaire piping fresh air into your homes at an astronomical cost.

This 2025, open your eyes and look not just around, but look at where our country is heading, and then make every effort to right the course!

Happy New Year, dear reader, and may we together Make India Great Again, this 2025!

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