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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan said that its painful to call India third world country and hopes that soon in future it shall no longer be a developing, but a developed nation.
The 74-year-old has praised Indian scientists, who on Friday said that they have identified a previously unknown, extremely large super cluster of galaxies located in the direction of the constellation Pisces and have named it ‘Saraswati’.
“The world built another universe…Much like yesterday a bunch of Indian space scientists discovered a galaxy which they felt was billions and multiple times billions the size of our sun… That is like unbelievable… and perhaps that is why gave a name which most suited it — Saraswati — the goddess of learning! And no one before had ever discovered this,” Amitabh posted on his blog on Saturday night.
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“India… The developing nation… The third world nation? Painful to be titled thus… and pray and believe that in time it shall no longer be developing but developed in its status and become the first world than the third,” he added.
The actor went on to share that once he was called a “third rate actor” during one of his foreign visits.
“The commented criticism when my visit to a foreign land created a furore with the fans and the media… With following and praise and celebration… The veiled threat of my presence in the land decried and derided by one such…”