India, Feb. 18 -- Almost one in three respondents in a survey conducted by Pew Research - a pre-eminent Washington DC based collector of data on public perception - in India either refused to answer or didn't know what to answer when asked what made them proud of India. With a 31% "non-response" score, India was ranked first on this count among the 25 countries for which this data was collected -- a list that includes Australia, Brazil, Germany , the UK, and the US.

To be sure, Indians are not really not proud of their country. Only three percent of them "mentioned something negative" when asked what made them not proud of their country compared to 29% of the respondents in UK and 20% in the US. In fact, India was ranked at the bottom ex...