What better way to start my blogging than the day of India's 60th Republic day, The day that India was truly free and was given to the people. We have come a long way since that day. The cities have grown , the people have grown so have a few things which should not have grown have flourished, but this is not to discuss all depressing things such as corruption and poverty.
26th January has become like any other holiday day for a average Indian. A break from the daily stress of bosses and work , a day to relax and spend time with your family. Put up national flags on the vehicles and pin up the tricolour on their pockets and dresses. ohh yes they do watch the repulic day parade on their televisions one of the rarest days when "Doordarshan" makes a appearence on the TV Sets.
I distinctly remember my school days where we used to do the Republic day parade, a group of students gathered from different schools and march around the ground in a unsynchronized way. Boy did we used to have fun then staring at the girls ( should mention at this point that mine was a all boys school).We used to give it all that we had with hands and legs flying in different directions. we used to shout "Vande Mataram" literally meaning "I do Homage to my Mother" at the top of our voices and sing the national anthem with pride. we celebrated the 50th republic day with such vigour and passion.
Now 10 years down the line most of my friends from that day all have grown up becoming IT Professionals (the so called high paying and preferred job in India, a whopping 75 % of students do a engineering in India and another 75% among them end up in IT companies). All of them just have one dream "When will i get a onsite opportunity , when will i go to US and earn in Dollars" or some other company with a higher salary. Where did all those dreams of doing something for my country go, where did the passion for the country die, where ..................
Thanks to Mr. OBAMA and his policies probably Indians will have a find out a way of the IT and outsourcing mess and finally do something else.
See i promised you a little bit of gyaan waiting for the response to my gyaan.
