A famous Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, had once quoted, “Gulon me rang bhare, baad-ae-naubahar chale, chale bhi aao ke gulshan ke kaarobaar chale.” The inner meaning of this quote is that the objective situation in the country is ripe, which invites the patriotic people now to come forward to serve the country.

India is presently going through a transition period, from feudal agricultural society to a modern industrial society. This is a very painful and agonizing period in history. A study of European history from the 16th to 19th Centuries, which was the transition period of Europe, shows that this period was a period of turmoil, turbulence, wars, revolutions, chaos, social churning and intellectual ferment. It was only after going through this fire that a modern society emerged in Europe. India is presently going through this fire. We are going through a very painful period in our history which, I guess, would last for about another 10 to 20 years. It is the duty of all patriotic people to educate the masses in India about this, and thereby try to reduce the transition period and its agony. There are five theses which would help the masses understand India better:

1. A country of immigrants

While North America is a land of new immigrants, who came in mainly from Europe over the last four or five centuries, India is a land of old immigrants—wherein people came in from the North-West and to a lesser extent from the North-East. About 92 - 93 percent of the people living in India are descendants of these immigrants.

The reason why people migrated into India, and rarely from India to outside India, is obvious. People migrate from uncomfortable areas to comfortable areas. Before the industrial revolution there were agricultural societies everywhere. India was a paradise for these. Agriculture requires level land, fertile soil, plenty of water for irrigation, etc. This was in abundance in the Indian sub-continent. Why should anybody migrate from India to, say, Afghanistan which is rocky, mountaineous, cold and covered with snow several months in a year and hence very uncomfortable. Instead people kept rolling into India for 10 thousand years or so.