We call the nation where we reside India. We might all have various emotions, visions, feelings, and loves for the nations in which we were born or reside. However, it is crucial to consider what India really means to us. India was once a very large country that stretched across the Indian Ocean to various island countries in the south, including Sri Lanka, and from Afghanistan’s borders to what is now Myanmar. India, a large biogeographic region that spans from Kashmir in the north to Kanyakumari in the south and from the Runn of Kutch in the west to Kohima in the east, is renowned for its extraordinary ethnic diversity, rich culture, and illustrious past. A land with 22 official languages, more than 540 dialects, various tribal groups, forest dwellers, thriving cities, villages, and hamlets, as well as an unimaginably wide range of racial, social, religious, and cultural characteristics. Only this nation can claim to be the cradle of four major world religions: Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In the current Indian population, all other major religions, including Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, are also represented in varying degrees. The seventh largest country on the earth will surpass China to become the one with the greatest reported human population by 2030. With the majestic Himalayas in the north, the vast Deccan Peninsula in the south, and the seven sister states that make up the northeast of India, which is physiologically, physically, and ethnically continuous with South East Asia, India is a land of immense ethnic diversity.
Thus, emerging India serves as a sizable market and trade route between the Middle East, Central Asia, and South East Asia, an area rich in geopolitical and economic prospects. India has effectively developed as a global powerhouse despite the pressures of a large population, a stagnating economy, a lack of adequate infrastructure investments, slow economic growth, a high level of corruption, nepotism, etc. India is a significant global market for less expensive pharmaceuticals, iron and steel, coal, other minerals, forest products, clothing and textiles, plastics, and other industrial and tool items. The nation’s abundant natural resources, together with the support and labour of both skilled and unskilled labourers, have sustained and fuelled the economy’s expansion since independence. India is also one of the largest providers of labour on the planet due to its enormous population, high level of education and technical proficiency, state-of-the-art training, and lower cost of labour. India, one of the top 10 nations on all seven continents, now has the fourth-largest army in the world and possesses nuclear weapons. Through its economic liberalisation and growth policies during the past four to five decades, as well as by luring both direct and indirect foreign investments, India has risen to become the sixth-largest economy in the world. The country has advanced significantly in a wide range of fields, including contemporary education, science, technology, and engineering. Since the era of the Indus Valley Civilization, Indian arts and architecture have had an illustrious history. One of the best instances of art, aesthetic excellence in designs, craftsmanship, and inventiveness can be found in the nation. But when it comes down to it, India symbolises a phenomenon for our entire cultural consciousness, not just as a nation. The knowledge of the Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads, Ayurveda, Artha Shastra, Gita, Tripitaka, Jatakas, Guru Granth Sahib, and other enlightened works and scriptures have been given to us by these ancient lands and civilizations to improve our lives and knowledge. India is a mega biodiverse nation that is not only made up of various distinct ecosystems like mountains, coastal and estuarine areas, islands, deserts, peninsulas, hot and cold deserts, open grasslands, mangroves, deciduous and coniferous forests, the rich diversity of wildlife, forests, and biodiversity, but also a country that stands as one despite all of its differences and diversities.
Indian democracy has become well-recognised on a worldwide scale. Even though India’s management system and prestige procedures may have been better controlled, the country has nonetheless left its mark on the world stage in terms of geopolitics, socio-culture, economy, military, and commerce. India is not only a long-standing civilisation with a billion or more people, but it has also advanced from its Third World status to become a rapidly developing nation and a rising superpower.