THE RANKS THAT WONT COUNT
India ranks 4th in the Global Firepower Index, 6th and 3rd in Economy index by nominal GDP and GDP-PPP respectively, 2nd in Global Population Prospectus and 1st in remittance receiving report (One Family at a Time). With all these under 10 ranks, the state is given a ‘to be super power’ title which is enough for the collective developments statistics. Indian development goes like Raghavan and Krishnan drives a Mercedes in the 10 member country so 2/10 of India drives a Mercedes and we are developed. Reality is the other 8 may not have enough public buses to travel. Development status of Individual life in the Democratic Republic cannot be drawn from the under 10 ranks. There are few other prospectus and indexes which are conveniently forgotten to keep up the ‘developed in 2020’ dream. Indian position in Global Happiness ranking keeps on bowing out as 118th in 2016, 122nd in 2017 and 133rd in 2018 out of 156 countries. The ‘to be super power’ kept only Afghanistan (145th) beh