‘The Hare and The Tortoise’ - A radical and more or less a compelling shift from ‘The Tiger and The Elephant' paradigm.
While it was no less than a century ago, that an Indian was valued for his intellect or was considered as an envious presence in the global discussions, be it business or art. Was it before the long strides of Swami Vivekananda in the Chicago conference? Or was it during Tagore’s Nobel acclamation? Or was it as recent as C.K. Prahalad’s mastery over business that India won its fame?
It took the world a second global depression to believe that, when foundations are made strong, and family planning is weak, and when a country mothers a million millionaires using brains, it sure survives.
Without clouding ourselves with the feeling of blind patriotism, let’s consider the fact that not only the man power, but the quality of man power is what separates India from the rest of the over-population. Are we always backed by innovation? The answer is an obvious NO, but we sure are aware about what is right and where does this right takes us to.
Neither was Rome built, nor was this made possible in a day. The restricted and refrained standards of living paid off making the nation robust to stand as a giant, blocking a corrosive couple year downturn. Global markets have been foreseeing India and China as the two world powers and the final shift of paradigm proving it right has arrived and I am no less than basking in pride to be an Indian.
