My kind of Indian

"There are many of us, but,among India’s multitudes, we are few. We have grown up in the cities of India, secure in a national identity rather than in a local one, which we express in English better than in any Indian language. We rejoice in the complexity and diversity of our India, of which we feel a conscious part; we have friends of every caste and religious community, and we marry across such sectarian lines. We see the poverty, suffering and conflict in which a majority of our fellow citizens are mired, and we clamor for new solutions to these old problems, solutions we believe can come from the skills and efficiency of the modern world. We are secular, not in the sense that we are irreligious or unaware of the forces of religion, but in that we believe that religion should not determine public policy or individual opportunity.And, in Indian politics, we are pretty much irrelevant.
We don't get a look in.We don't enter the fray because we can't win. We tell ourselves ruefully, that we are able, but not electable.We don't have the votes.There are too few of us,and we don't speak the idiom of the masses.Instead we have learnt to talk about political issues without the expectations that we will be able to do anything about them...."

Written in 1997 by an Indian technocrat, not very different from many of us, even 14 years later.