India Shining?

I got an email today, asking if i was interested in a private sale of this authenticated Souza. And I don't know why it saddened me. It shouldn't really. I keep thinking if a watercolour by the masters of progressive art of a country is up for sale, it should be sold, or ready for sale, before the announcement is made. Southeby's should be fending off attempts to buy the art before it goes up for auction. And yet, I am receiving emails (two) to check if there is any interest.

I see it, my knowledge of art is pedestrian. Besides I know I cannot just add a Souza to my grocery list. So I don't reply asking for more details. But I start thinking about a conversation I am having with Parmesh Shahani on the CommonWealth Games. He agrees with Mani Shankar Aiyer, I hope against hope. He believes that "Middle class aspirations of grandeur do not make a world city. Poor Delhi suffers, us tax payers bleed, while the corrupt laugh." and I counteract his logical thought with emotional instinct, "Yes, but in the words of Scott Sir, Breathes there the man, with soul so dead ... this is my own, my native land! #faujikid." I am now thinking.... Is India Shining? Is the government helping socialist India, because I am not sure how it is helping capitalist India...?