There is an ancient Sanskrit verse which runs as follows:
“Kaale Varshatu Parjanyah Prithvi Sasyashalini
Deshoyam Kshobirahito Brahmanasantu Nirbhayah”
“May we be blessed by rains in time, may mother earth bloom with verdure and crops, may the country be free from misery and straits. May wise and learned men live courageously and without fear.
I would draw my Vision of “Free India” from this wonderful prayer which I consider is a summation of all that is good for the country.
I have a vision of a prosperous agricultural country reaping nature’s bounty with the optimum utilisation of new technology and good management practices. Agriculture is the foundation for all other development related to it and also for the development of industries and manufacture to make the country self-reliant and prosperous among the nations of the world. Agriculture and Industry and all services related to them will generate employment opportunities to large masses of the population who will otherwise be compelled to live in distress, and waste their time, talent and energy or to engage in professions and activities which are hostile to development and morality.
I have a vision of a country which is courageous, mighty in the splendour of its moral fabric, committed to harmony between various 
people inhabiting the nation and to a 
co-operative relationship between India and other countries. 
I have a vision of India being free from pestilence and famine, from infirmity, disease and illiteracy. May our rulers vow to root these out and may our people support and commit themselves completely to this endeavour.
I have a vision of our rulers being just and generous and rising above pettiness and callous calumny, of our administrators being wise and concerned deeply and selflessly about the interests of the people, of our politicians rising to the highest sense of duty and trusteeship, of our educationists who will concentrate on the flowering of the mind and the uninhibited expression of deep and useful thought of our workers concerned with social and public activity who will show commitment and a capacity to be free from petty or dangerous self-aggrandisement, of public servants who will be free, frank and fearless and bend only to the will of God the dictates of morality or the welfare of the people of religious teachers who will bring out the eternal thoughts and teachings of all religions namely, love among fellowmen, harmony between all human beings, succour to the needy and teaching by example the wicked to be good.

—Dr. V. Subramanian I.A.S. (Retd.)
Former Minister, Maharashtra