You are right about only a very specific part but everything other than that you are wrong. Yes, a strong history does not justify us sitting idle in chaos, but if we look into it and learn we can get teachings on how to get out of the situation we currently are in. The question is, how many of us are ready to do so?
When I compared calling the country just a land and partition, I was not comparing the activity or event, I was comparing the mindset and you cannot deny both the mindsets are like the branches of the same tree.
As I said, we need skilled people who can fix this country and each and every person is skilled in his own way, we can use his skill somehow or the other. As you mentioned and called Abdul Kalam and Bhabha as 'exceptions', at the time when they were offered these priveleges, they were no exception, atleast not in their own eyes or of the majority of the world. They were just a common man doing ther job and their mind was fixed on one thing, "Duty and Service". You can call it fanatic but that is how nations are made.
What do you think, most of our policy makers are good thinkers? No, they are just good speakers, we need thinkers, people who are willing enough to become a part of the system. You are preaching about system, are you yourself willing to become a part of it? Because I am and I will. You see, just sitting on a chair and comparing and running your fingers on keyboard about why Indian is worst etc and why we should leave, have you ever yourself ever thought of fixing this syestemic problem rather than just demotivating even the people who wish to stay in the nation to make it better?
Our leaders severly lack discussion, this is the truth, they lack real discussions on how Laws are made and systems are made. We do not want Idea-less leaders in future, we need a leader who has plans, who knows what he is doing and who all will his decisions affect and that is why meaningful discussions are required. No one can become the part of the system in just one day, and if he does become one day, he must know his goal and targets, and discussions such as we do here, gives the most important component for that and that is 'Exposure'. To new ideas, ideologies and everything else.
So yes we lack a lot, but we will not continue to be lacking and for that we all must strive. Yes even by staying in foriegn, good can be done, if a student returns after getting international exposure and Knowledge to do the same in his country, it is a good initiative, many scientists even did that, and I support it, what I don't support is becoming an asset for some other country while their country suffers. Because if everybody kept running to lavish offers then and organisation like ISRO would never exist. Who would like to transport parts of rocket from a bullock Cart and assemble it and launch it from a Church, if they too had the same mindset as yours, ISRO would never even would have been established, and that was not just one scientist that created ISRO, there were thousands of them who stayed and that is why ISRO is what it is today.
And all of this can happen in other sectors to, if we try.