India the bread-basket: From a begging-bowl status till the early sixties, the Green Revolution movement liberated Free India from the clutches of USA’s PL-480 wheat loans to the present commanding status of a wheat-exporting Nation. I am therefore, tempted to dream of a future India where agriculture would have become more sustainable through “evergreen revolution”. Farming would become a more remunerative and rural employment generating venture, enhancing the purchasing power of the rural poor through an efficient direct marketing network freed from the strangle-hold of middlemen. 
Job-oriented Education for all: Vocation-based education will ensure the retention of rural artisans in their respective professions and traditional skills with the assurance of livelihood security. Rural youth will find it worthwhile to stay on in their villages to practice their vocation, without the need for migrating to towns for gainful employment. Women will also be empowered to acquire skills in modern technology including IT.
Health and Population Control: ‘Health for all” and ‘one family one child’ would be the future mantras of Free India for achieving a healthy and contented population that would have stabilized at the one billion mark. This would be made possible through a sustained programme of balanced nourishment of expectant and nursing mothers, and post-natal care to prevent the low birth-weight of newborns. 
Environment and Hygiene: with greater exploitation of solar and other non-conventional energy sources, Free India would have become a pollution-free, plastic-free, smoke-free and slum-free Nation with zero-emission automobiles, thereby arresting the sea-level rise due to global warming. Slums would have been replaced by low-cost housing and efficient waste disposal through biodegradation and conversion into organic manure for an eco-friendly and sustainable farming system, with greater employment potential.
Towards a Social Revolution: Free India of the future would be a classless society providing equal opportunity for all to earn a decent living, based on individual talents and training, irrespective of religious beliefs, gender, race or social status. In such a society, there would be no room for exploitation, nor jealousy, which is the root cause for hatred and terrorism. Such an Indian ethos will permeate in the neighbourhood of Asia and Africa, leading to a powerful conglomerate of peace-loving Nations which will cease to be called the Third World of developing countries.
This is no Utopian dream. No other country but India is capable of showing the way towards realizing this dream.

—R. D. Iyer
Agricultural Scientist