India home to multi ethnic populations, developed to a status of ‘typically Indian,’ has all reasons to sing own praises but never does. This humble approach or low profile draws awe around the world, even on those rich cynics wearing airs; they sure couch, scheming peculiar knockouts. One may list some such insinuations under current affairs.

Joys of being an Indian stays in the simplicities, life has to offer. Grow up with tolerance, respect for “Unity in Diversity.” Irrelevant, animal, insect, vertebrate, invertebrate…each has a function, a duty to render existence an experience, a sojourn on earth, beliefs.

Heritage of a civilisation traced to the prehistoric. Those concept legacies handed over by means of hereditary. Life is a cycle and peace is ultimate. Universe is endless. A culture embeds in family values and nurse relationships through a variety rituals.

Indian ability ingests impairment, the constant slur on image Indian. To ignore brags, those who, with loads of plundered money or otherwise propagate against all Indian. There lie splendours of being Indian. Best part of the Indians, are the attitudes, forgive, and forget, go ahead write a new era… than cry over spilt milk.

Indian cultural truths confirmed by ancient travelogues of visitors express an important fact about Indians “not blow your own trumpets, rather let others validate it.”

To cite an example, Bombay film industry, actor Amitabh Bachan quips; when questioned by an interviewer, what he had to say on his having the largest record films, and popularity, greatness, he replied, “I’m not saying I am great…but you are saying so…”

A pity filmmaker Satyajit Roy awarded the Oscar at the fag end of his life.

“Noble struggle fit, sports, beauty brawn and brain strong, to Bombay films the world throngs.”

It hardly matters whether a prize one or two comes from the hibernating few internationals busy in oscillating midst narrow orbit of chit funds that include cups, balls, tokens, certificates etc… a mutual admiration society with no real worth except useless back scratching.

Critical aspect, the truth is world shares to sustain ‘pink of health’ or dwindle in lonely despondency of greedy pecuniary success, rendering the very success a paradox!

Apart from chronicles of the Chinese traveller Heun Tsang of the ancient - in modern times the former Chinese ambassador to the USA Mr H. Shih never hesitated to express that India took over China culturally for 20 centuries with never ever need to send a single fighter waging war. Proof of Indian non-violence, call the same the Indian policy non-alignment of today. Many may smirk at such policy, to compassion them, is Indian attitude.

Though ancient, still evergreen the flowery fresh crispy language Sanskrit known as mother of all languages is the most precise and suitable for computer software. Report in Forbes magazine, July 1987

It so happened at a monthly club (consisting of Indians and foreigners) meet, a foreign woman critically shocked at an unequipped Indian artisan complained bitterly about his effort to fix a cable, which he did. How awkwardly she was burgundy, as the rest unanimously appreciated the artisan’s improvisation.

Corner Indians with weird and imaginative smear campaign fall into zeros. The cleverest way to corrupt people is to instil the fashion of accept bribes through a tiny hushed rumour, he she accepted… so that a trend may follow to do the same – herd instinct. However, such attempts too fail, as transparency today demands an answer.

To accuses, of Helsinki to Honduras, Canberra to Caracas, Osaka to Lisbon, and so forth and so on… taken aback at an answer, from a cultural authority, stationed abroad, “see; there is the beauty of our democracy, freedom to speak anything about anyone, and we can prove them wrong, thus victimise falsely, falls flat,” formulates for thoughtfulness.

Justification of the above paragraph is that unsuspecting Indians often fall into nasty traps! Sure, not an admirable characteristic but so is life, ‘inconvenient.’

Recalling school days, remember our innocent no reaction to the mention by a dignified above fifty years of age teacher Shih; of Lord McCauley must have erred with his weird wrap up on Indian ways of life. “In our country India, no thieves, he must have been high…”

Lord McCauley’s advice speech in British Parliament on 2^nd February 1835 about India, supply ample proofs of Indian values for the Indian detractors. His vocalizations in the past make interesting reading today.

Lord McCauley said, “I have travelled across the length and breath of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is its spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”

Administration, education, science, medicine, art, architecture, agriculture… it is a blessing to be born Indian! Gautam Buddha, Ma Sarada, Vivekananda, Mahatma … Concept of Maya … Art of Navigation; Takshila, University of Nalanda; Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus, Pythagorean Theorem; Ayurveda; Aryabhatta, the scientist who offered the important concept ‘zero.’

5th century Bhaskaracharya exactly calculated the time 365.258756484 days taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart.

Budhayana, the Indian, first calculated "pi," Sushruta regarded as the father of surgery… Sridharacharya used quadratic equations in the 11th century, Mathematician Ramanujan – ‘the man who knew infinity,’ brightens Indian arena. In good health glowing, is this a mini list? A simple reminder just, feels the joys of being Indian.

Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jews, Jain, Buddhists, Zoroastrian, Atheist … multiple religions run through Indian vein. Vegetarian, non-vegetarian, egg eater, fish, or crab eater, tolerance, peace, harmony is the key.

Additional facts regardless of separatists on prowl India stubbornly adheres to core diplomacy of non-violence. Not beside the point, reference defence system, India prides in protecting the borders that helps to maintain a commendable immunity…

Secular India is not a newbie but history that we have no high or low pattern but a very circular notion of life. Fine is the “Argumentative Indian,” challenging stands, no more a doormat but to feel and respond.

Conclude with mention of Albert Einstein who was of opinion that India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition!