#263 What is common between rAm gOpAl varma and swAmi vivEkAnanda?
rAmgOpal varma Shri rAm gOpAl varma is a noted bollywood producer, director. Also a columnist of Deccan Chronicle newspaper published from Hyderabad. Reference: his column 'SHOOTING STRAIGHT' in the Tabloid Edition. Date: 18th August 2013. This column is a set of questions and answers. We shall take up one q&a which is pertinent to vivEkAnanda and USA. Reader's question: Do you think that American people are more intelligent than us? Answer of Shri Varma: Intelligence comes from people and not from countries. What countries do is to provide a system and a platform where intelligence can flourish. That is what America does. It was formed barely 200 years ago without any so called rich heritage, tradition, and culture and it surpassed all of us who have several thousand years of history. Great men are born all over the world but they eventually land up in America. Whether or not people admit it , fact remains that America is the greatest that is known to us.