If I get it right, it was ToI which obsessively pushed the talk of, India, a superpower in making, just the way they have done the aman ki asha, though may I add, better sense prevailed in the end, and they cut short the campaign. The campaign stopped, but the thought lingers on. Technically, and looking at the track record, a lot of rhetoric, but very less substance.
The author takes an example of Indian diaspora, and their success overseas, fair enough, but then these people have a vision, and then that vision gets supported by a conducive atmosphere, in contrast, we have a successful private sector, but a government which is lost in it's act, and continues to remain pretty much directionless at the moment.
If we reflect back and go back to the early 90s and look at our track record since, has it been something to really boost about, I have some serious doubts. If anything, even in the post liberalized economy, the good growth has happened in only a patches and nothing more, and by and large we have remained misdirected with half hearted measures taken which have remained no more than, if anything, stop gap measures.
Economy remains in tatters, like wise and largely because of a pretty bad economy, also thanks to a political class with a rather clueless vision, the defence continues to again remain in a state of filling the loopholes as stop gap, and if a thing like artillery is to be taken, then nothing of the sort even exists there.
The only thing which has sustained decently over a period of time is the foreign policy, and this is where some appreciable measures continue to be taken.
All in all, there is a desperate need to have the economy back on track, doing growth rate numbers of at least 8%(+) for the next decade or so, and then we would be better placed to take some sort of a call, at the moment, far-far from it.
India continues to remain a country with potential, nothing more so far.