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FROM A LAND OF PLENTY TO PELTING OUR LIFE SAVERS OUR JOURNEY AND THE WAY AHEAD Written by : Wg Cdr Abhishek Matiman (Retd)         To me - 'Bharat', my nation that I have given my blood and sweat to, always stood as a unified identity. Thoughts, even remotely patriotic that come to one's mind are born out of a sense of belongingness that one has to his / her Nation. The Nation, to all those who think about it, represents people who belong to it and all the rest that mother nature has endowed the particular piece of land with. That, in our case amounts to a whopping 1.37 billion human lives concentrated in an area of 3.28 million square kilometres of land.     Any rational person would readily concede that ensuring peaceful coexistence of contentment for 17.74% of the world's population living off barely 2.4% of the world's total land area would entail an extraordinary administrative effort. In addition, the unmatched diversity on account of caste, cr