Got this link from The Alternative perspective newsletter I get

It’s an article by Shashi Tharoor (the author of The Great Indian Novel and The Mammaries of a Welfare State) who is also a civil servant and UN employee on what does being Indian and India mean for him. I think it captures the ethos of India beautifully !

Well, this is India of our day-to-day experience – full of anomalies, inequalities, confusion or diversity (depending on how one tries to understand it)… Contemporary India, perhaps more than any other time, is Many Indias. To quote from this article by Shashi Tharoor, India is: “snow peaks and tropical jungles, with seventeen major languages and 22,000 distinct “dialects”… 51% illiterate but which has educated the world’s second-largest pool of trained scientists and engineers… birthplace of four major religions, a dozen different traditions of classical dance, eighty-five political parties and 300 ways of cooking the potato”…