I am a well wisher of India and I have this to say...
India and people of India should learn to stop living in the past and start to work on today's problems. The illusions of past grandeur are to be rejected. People of India should concentrate on building good road, creating meaningful employment, potable water, reasonable infrastructure. Saying that we were great thousand years ago should not a substitute for I am great today...
Whats has this got to do with the article we are discussing?
I find "the illusions of past grandeur" very interesting. In fact, I find it far more interesting than the present illusion.
One must know where he has been to understand where he should be.