While the West is both excited and paranoid about India’s potential, the average Indian is still not empowered as the polity continues to wither India’s intrinsic potential...
As the first decade of the twenty-first millennium is nearing end, it’s time to take stock of a nation which in less than one and a half decade has travelled a long distance from the verge of bankruptcy, to be among the most promising economies of the world. Probably no other country has travelled such a long distance in such a short period. In less than two decades’ time, the perception of many of the First World countries about India have changed from pity for a starving Third World struggling nation to respect and awe for one of the fastest growing economic and military powerhouses who has an insatiable appetite for energy and cross border acquisitions. Probably it doesn’t take much time perhaps for perceptions to change.
Very few sitting in India would not hold countries like France in awe. And even fewer sitting in this part of the world would believe if one is to say that an average Frenchman or a British is today as much paranoid about the increasing clout of the Indian economy and Indian Inc as outsourcing to India is becoming a key issue in the US presidential elections. Out on a casual walk on the streets of Paris, chances are high that an average Indian would first of all be asked if he is a Pakistani or a Bangladeshi. Even before the shock and the sheer disgust of being equalled with a Pakistani or a Bangladeshi overwhelms one, the realisation dawns that however much India might go ahead in the race, racially the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis would still be the same for an average European. So when one visits those places, quite often one has to take the pain of explaining that ‘we are Indians and not Pakistanis.’ Prompt would come the reply, ‘What are you doing here then? There’s so much happening in your own country!!’ If your are on an educational trip, the sarcastic smile would be complimented with a shocking reply, ‘Thank God you are not here for a job’ or ‘What is there to learn from France or Europe? Don’t you see how they are busy splitting it all up in the name of unity?
As the first decade of the twenty-first millennium is nearing end, it’s time to take stock of a nation which in less than one and a half decade has travelled a long distance from the verge of bankruptcy, to be among the most promising economies of the world. Probably no other country has travelled such a long distance in such a short period. In less than two decades’ time, the perception of many of the First World countries about India have changed from pity for a starving Third World struggling nation to respect and awe for one of the fastest growing economic and military powerhouses who has an insatiable appetite for energy and cross border acquisitions. Probably it doesn’t take much time perhaps for perceptions to change.
Very few sitting in India would not hold countries like France in awe. And even fewer sitting in this part of the world would believe if one is to say that an average Frenchman or a British is today as much paranoid about the increasing clout of the Indian economy and Indian Inc as outsourcing to India is becoming a key issue in the US presidential elections. Out on a casual walk on the streets of Paris, chances are high that an average Indian would first of all be asked if he is a Pakistani or a Bangladeshi. Even before the shock and the sheer disgust of being equalled with a Pakistani or a Bangladeshi overwhelms one, the realisation dawns that however much India might go ahead in the race, racially the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis would still be the same for an average European. So when one visits those places, quite often one has to take the pain of explaining that ‘we are Indians and not Pakistanis.’ Prompt would come the reply, ‘What are you doing here then? There’s so much happening in your own country!!’ If your are on an educational trip, the sarcastic smile would be complimented with a shocking reply, ‘Thank God you are not here for a job’ or ‘What is there to learn from France or Europe? Don’t you see how they are busy splitting it all up in the name of unity?
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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