Confidence in oneself and in one's country to be the world's best in everything is of course a good thing.
But at the same time it's important to remember that we have no obligation to buy or use mediocre products in the name of being "swadeshi". We've had seventy six years of independence and if we still can't manufacture world class products in some field ourselves then consumers have all the right to buy foreign products.
My favorite example is computers! There isn't a single company in the whole of India that makes globally competitive computers! Seventy six years after independence! Not my fault!
And thus I'm quite happy to be typing right now on a foreign brand computer.
If Indian manufacturers and businesses want us to buy their products, they just have to raise their standards. There's simply going to be no other way to make this happen.
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