Welcome to Dharma 101, our new podcast in which @infinitchy and @Indic_drishti will articulate the traditionalist point of view in a contemporary idiom. In this first episode, we answer the most elementary question, "What does Tradition mean?"

4 pictures from the late 1800s 1st from USA, 2nd from Germany, 3rd from Britain and last one from India 1st 3 shows productivity and optimism, last one shows doom and despair If after missing the industrial revolution bandwagon we can come to this stage where we are flying self made fighter jets, planning space station and attracting people from all over world to our hospital I will say we are somewhere, that too with shitty democratic structure Problems are aplenty, our urban areas suck, bureaucrats are leeches comparable to Sub Saharan Africa but country is full of potential India has 1.7 Billion people, soon we will be 2 Billion, every 4th person will be from India, stop reading, take a moment and digest this We have lost our right to be called a country, we statistically represent humanity now Any exercise to develop India, would be an exercise to develop Humanity itself But but China did it with more population...... Yes China did it, there were factors which made it possible which are not with us And that makes it even more difficult as a large chunk of wealth released in world economy in last 3 decades already got concentrated elsewhere To move that wealth and to consume future new wealth, we need era defining reforms in land, labour, laws and most of all R&D What will happen only time will tell, but I am not giving up on India, at least not yet