What are we afraid of?

Today, the thought stimulus came from Obama's speech on science and Technology. He urges the nation to not let any more microsoft, intel, google, oracle etc. to be created in China (or India). Fair enough, as a president of a country, this is very nice of him to envisage his country as the leader in science and technology. But, as a citizen of India, my interpretation would be "don't let people get scientifically advanced else where, lets monopolize this in USA". Is it good? Nah, I would say. Well, lets get in depth and think what could have been happening all these years. Why we (Indians) are not leaders in science and technology? We have IITs, IIMS and now we have IISc like institutes and still we lack in the innovation quotient. We are unable to retain our raw talents in our own country. From my school days, I have heard people saying "such and such is a bright student, has a great future. I am hoping he/she gets to a foreign country and earn  big name". Not for a moment we think a bright student can be famous in our own country too. Why so? May be from our slavish mentality, we give too much of importance to white superiority. It seems to be there somewhere deep within ourselves that we lack confidence in ourselves. When someone from outside(preferably a white skinned person) says something, we start accepting it. At the same time, we also have too much fear. Yes, it is the fear of not succeeding is what keeping us from succeeding in the first place. We Indians are also averse to taking risk. We think that in our one and only life we should do things perfectly right, so that we lead a normal and comfortable life. That is right. We have tech companies like infosys, TCS etc. that are doing extremely well in terms of services (Read it risk free sector). When it comes to innovation, these companies shy away. At the moment Infosys has enough cash that it can attract bright and young individuals for product creation, but it does not want to. It wants to play safe.
We always look upon western countries for their innovations, and want them to lead us. We lack great leaders to motivate us. Here I feel like giving my own example. I like to do things and grow, but what has stopped me from doing it? It is nothing but my own attitude. I always need someone to tell me what I need to do rather than thinking and executing it by myself. This, despite having full confidence in my own abilities. What am I afraid of? May be fear of being criticized... Ridiculous! In order to grow and be world leaders we need to come out of our own fear and fear of being judged. We have to believe in ourselves and execute our thoughts. Then only India will be a world leader and we can prove Obama wrong.