India's rejuvenation has a message for the world: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the world not to look at India merely as an emerging market but as an idea of plural minds.

"India's rejuvenation, re-emergence and rise have a message for the whole world. India symbolises the freedom of human freedom," Singh said in his address here on the 80th birthday celebrations of noted scholar and veteran Congressman Karan Singh.

India, he said, symbolises the freedom of human freedom.

"India is not merely an emerging market, it is an emerging idea. It is an idea of plural minds," he said.

"It is about idealism, pluralism and the freedom of human spirit."
Singh said that India''s commensurate role within the comity of nations should be cultural diplomacy, adding, "As we see ahead, we see in front of us a country of great possibilities".

Praising Karan Singh as a great son of India and a great and noble citizen, he said, "I can think of no other Indian who has come to represent the ethos of out great civilisation like him."