India, an amalgam of races, religions, cultures, values and traditions, has never quite ceased to create curiosity in the West's 'thinkers'. What places her apart from other new democracies is her resilience and willingness to absorb and learn from foreign concepts, new ideas and innovations. But she has also been mistreated bcos of this particular ability. What she needs is not the no-progress Left, the partisan and outrageous Right, but a force of her own, common people, the working class to come out in the open and bring her back to life and vitality. After the generation of Nehru, Patel and Gandhi who freed her, we are the ones who have to propel her forward in the race to development, peace and excellence. It is our responsibility, not our burden. We, the working class, have to galvanise her masses and restore their confidence in their Indianness, make them true Indians. And we shall do that.