Nostalgia?

Tomorrow... It is 60th year of Indian independence. It also marks four years since I came to this country. Lot has changed. Back then, I was witnessing the growing IT revolution first hand. As another one of millions of confident Indian youth striving to do something, I still remember the mail from our CEO announcing that TCS breached the $1 billion revenue mark. Now their revenues are four times that figure and employee base three times as large. Urban India is witnessing unprecedented growth rates, at the same time distance between cities and villages is growing. In the mean time, we have seen two successful GSLV launches while Antrix ventures into commercial satellite launching business. Away from the limelight, numerous Indians,... software engineers in Bangalore to Tea garden workers in Assam go about their daily livestrying to meet their aspirations. It is they, the people who make this miracle that is India today. Unassuming people, who never utter catchy slogans on the television but toil to better their lives and those of people around them. The great nation is slowly shaking off its deep slumber of a millennium to wake up to its original glory of a strong and benevolent nation.
There is one unmistakable shift in the attitudes of people today..an earlier generation was cautious...content with a university degree and a govt. job. But todays generation is not. I was pleasantly surprised to find a definite purpose in the voices of many young men and women. Confident in their capabilities, they reach for the best. And this bodes well for a young nation.
We have a lot to accomplish and obstacles are indeed immense. It is a fitting challenge to a country where the sages proclaimed: Be strong- physically, mentally and spiritually. And I am confident we shall overcome.
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[Originally written on 14th aug,2007]