Indians need to be proud of the deeds committed by fellow Indians and not by foreigners. The blame is on the Indian news media. Why do the Indian news media appreciate the achievements of “foreigners “as if they were achieved by Indian citizens? The “foreigners”, I am referring to, are either born in India or born to Indian parents, but do not have an Indian citizenship. Be it the Nobel laureates, astronauts, wiz kids, the news media had always spread propaganda, by associating “Indian-ness” with their achievement. It had comfortably ignored the fact that the support rendered by their own country and the individual’s effort to achieve these great heights. I feel that the Indian news media should appreciate their achievements by not “stressing” too much, on the fact that they have some sort of link to India. This brings in the following questions in my mind. Why do we need to “self-motivate” ourselves with other’s achievements? Do “Indians” always perform better when they are out of India? Or, is it so that the achievements of Indians are not well appreciated because they had achieved it in India? First came, kalpana chawla then now Sunitha Williams.... A supercomputer is named KC, a satellite is named kalpana, but nothing is named after Rakesh Sharma ... oops sorry there are few Indians named Rakesh Sharma now.
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I wouldnt entirely blame it on the Indian media alone. It is also the US media that mentions that KC and SW are of "Indian" origin. Also, there is nothing wrong in doing so to promote and advocate the confidence in youngsters by pinpointing the achievements of others who were of Indian origin.
Also, India is not the only country that does it. Arnold Schwarzenneger has olympic stadiums and streets named after him in Austria. Swedes are proud of achievements of Nordstroms and Segerstroms in the USA.
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