Leaders are not great by birth, their decisions during times of crisis make them great Swaraj", “suraaj", “rama-rajya", “self-reliance"—these words have been influencing our consciousness for more than a century.
Sometimes, they were used to awaken us and, at others, the use results in controversy. Once, these words were used as a weapon to win our freedom from the British.
We got the freedom, but the words never left us. Here, I want to talk about the Prime Minister’s address to the nation last Tuesday.
He told us that India will emerge out of the coronavirus crisis as a self-reliant economy. What is self-reliance? How can we achieve it?