Development is a state of mind : Having said that, it does not mean that , if we keep thinking that we are developed, we become developed.
It means, development has to the reach the mind, its the state of mind of an individual that shows how much developed one is, and in aggregation of the states of mind of all individuals, how much developed a country is.., it’s the state itself or the level of state in which the mind can think and intercept that defines the level of development.
Even if we are able to build the best roads and the best infrastructure, the moment a rickshaw puller runs slow on his wheel just after a red signal turns to green, a loud continuous and highly vexatious horn keeps on vibrating. I do not see any betterment due developing good roads.
Same is the case with other traffic ethics like, crossing the road when you can see a car coming towards you at 100 kmph, people in the car shouting in a not much different attitude and so on.
Even the example of movies can be taken. Instead of bringing audience to the level of watching products of good filmmaking, the film industry mostly ends up making ‘what people see’ !! We cannot start from the end saying people watch anything. It is the development that a director can deliver to a movie which can impact the state of mind. As RGV has said, it might take another 250 years to make and understand a movie like Inception in India !! 
The preparations for commonwealth games is yet another. Unless people around, and people who are displaced can feel and identify themselves with the games, it cannot be termed as a success after few months when it starts. In one way or the other, the preparations should change the state of affairs of the delhites (at least), their sanitation facilities etc , which then would imprint permanently in the very minds of the generations that a good sporting even is indeed a nice thing to do.
Else, the future generations only will feel a sporting event like Olympics as burden and yet another way of differential treatment of the haves and the have-nots.
Development is a state of mind : Those are the words of the world renowned economist Amartya Sen expressing his opinion on development of a country. True to its widest interpretation, this seems to be valid in almost all cases of our daily lives.
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