Every time I watch this movie

This is my favorite hindi movie of all time Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411469/) (still waiting for the dvd Mr Pandya)


Every time I see this movie I try and imagine what a transformation India has gone through and where it will end up. We started as socialists democracy , there was no choice ! no other approach would have seen a country (which had never existed as a whole but for a few glitches in history ) make it through in one piece. Then we decided to kill entrepreneur ship in any way we could . License Raj defined bureaucracy at its finest and to till this day its like a cancer that will take a lot of chemo to fix. Then as I was growing up India began to open up and for all we feared from the “outsiders” what people didn’t count on was what lied within.
From being a third world country with a lot of history all off a sudden India transformed into a place with unparalleled opportunities. I remember my mother returning from a trip from the US and telling me how hard people worked here and that Indian’s just didn’t have it in them. Today when I find myself working 70 hours a week I know there is someone in a Infi or Wipo who putting in more hours than me and I know that as a people we can work till we drop all we needed was a reason, an opportunity and a dream that all the effort will pay off.

I’ve heard a lot of non techies back home talk about how we are the smartest people around. Its simply not true . From what I’ve seen we are mediocre at best , the cream here is better but here’s the deal we know how to adapt. The biggest thing I learned from our education system is how to survive no matter what and when you work with a few MIT’ians you realize that knowledge can be acquired and no one , I mean no one is better than you its all about who wants it more. I think when 1/3 of the worlds population below 25 wants something it will happen. Believe me, one day in our lifetimes we will reminisce how India transformed into something that evokes national pride. The thing with something like India is that the mass is so great that momentum is hard to build but when inertia kicks in there is very little that can go wrong.

I’m going to stop now … blame it on the movie.