00:00Serve as a guide. But a great nation needs more than just laws. It needs character. It was so good
00:09when I heard one of our earlier speakers tell as to how character building, responsibility and also commitment towards the
00:17nation were part of the vision of Vinaya Hayate.
00:21And that is why he is part of building good citizens. He has made a lot of attacks. I think
00:28it is very important that a great nation needs more than just laws. It needs character. Rights always come with
00:37responsibilities.
00:38We need a society that values facts over noise, honesty over shortcuts and service over entitlement. Our character, hard work
00:51and unity will decide on how India rises.
00:56The nation cannot lead the world by copying others. India does not have to choose between technology and tradition. It
01:07should balance both. Yoga, Sanskrit, regional languages, festivals, crafts, cinema, music, design, digital art and creative industries are part of
01:20India's soft power.
01:21Because it must be modern in infrastructure, confident in innovation and deeply rooted in values. The world must respect not
01:32only India's economic strength but India's story. And that's the story which attracts a lot of people. Even now we
01:40should strengthen it.
01:41I wish for the world and deeply rooted in human rights.
01:45I hope there is no known but not in WHO's understanding of the world.
01:50Now we are trying to find the world, no one. India is no longer standing on the sidelines of the
01:59social impact of you. We are helping shape solutions on trade, technology, climate security and supply chains and development.
02:11Vishwalitra means being a trusted partner while putting India's interests first and
02:19you would recall even as I say this that that's exactly what is happening in this year, in
02:27the last year, in the coming year I would think in the light of the global UKA as they
02:34would. Then came colonialism in 1947 when we finally achieved independence, India's share
02:41of the world GDP had fallen to less than 4%. Where was 24 and where was 1947, where 100, just
02:524%. 200 years of colonialism had not really impoverished us. The destruction was as much
03:00of the spirit asset, as of the economy. And that is why when I added the naysayers and
03:09their contribution to not moving forward. It is this which is complete, the spirit was
03:18the one which was shattered during colonials. That you may not be able to move around, move
03:24forward. And that is that colonial mindset which we need to get out. So the first 70 days
03:31of independence were spent greatly, with great difficulty, with great debates and with many
03:38errors but also with moments of the mind, efficient achievements. We are known all the sleeping, India's
03:48awake. It's the truth. India's awake and it's moving forward. And when India is awake, the world
03:54makes moves. Today we are the world's fastest growing major economy. We are the nation that
04:01has 1.4 billion people, a median age of 28 years. What a youthful country. So much is lying in
04:11the
04:12hands of the hands of our youth. So everything that we do will have to have a bearing on them,
04:17a positive bearing on them. The world's largest educated work force is here. And an ancient
04:23entrepreneurial spirit that no colonial interlude could extinguish. Now, as we approach the
04:32centenary of our independence 2047, we face a choice. We can grow at the pace of the ordinary.
04:40We can allow the middle income trap to stall our movement of progress as it has solved so many
04:50developing nations. Or we can choose the extraordinary. We can choose to be among the top, among world's
05:00top economies.
