My own indelible impressions of India were formed way back in the '70s, when I made a brief visit to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and New Delhi. Those impressions were of abject poverty, overwhelming infrastructure problems, and a people struggling for survival – the very opposite of the kind of nation that could do something as grand and advanced as launching a robotic exploration mission to Mars.
But they've done it – in just 40 years, they've gone from the hopeless-looking mess that I saw to a member of the top tier of nations. Like all nations, they have plenty of problems – but the magnitude of their improvement in that time is simply stunning...
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