India is a land of the rising…with the maximum number of youths anywhere else in the world. Call it the lack of family planning of our previous generations – but the result is loud and clear ..”India is young”….with lots of dreams and ambitions it has set on the journey to make a mark.

We are the lucky ones to be born in these times. We have transitioned from small town education to large city high paying jobs – or we are the ones to simply have the courage to leave our high paying jobs and be an entrepreneur or just work for the good of the society. Thanks to the stage India is in today.

India is at its thoughtful best – exploring the situations to its benefit – may it be our stand in IAEA or our diplomatic policies or the amount we can today boast of spending on defence.

India is at its economic best till now – with the business coming home from the power-giants to this humble nation as the “rest of the world” economy tumbling down. We are surely better off – a long travel from the times of “license raj” to having a term called “bangalored” in the Oxford Dictionary! We have seen our parents working limited hours in government offices stagnation written all around, to ‘us’ having the ability and opportunity to just open our wings, with jobs in all directions. We have seen the upcoming and the uprising!

India has surely arrived – it is recognized not just for Gandhi or Nehru or the innumerable mythological Gods or its history for which it was earlier, but for its able youth as a land of opportunities!

This is the time to move forward, to make the giant leap like an athlete at the end of its race. If we stop now – we will be left far behind. If we become satiated – we will have to write the story all over again! Let us exploit this situation to our advantage and work hard towards the aim of uplifting the rest of us to be at par with the developed nations. Let us not just be happy reaping the fruits of our previous struggles – but sow the seeds for the years to come.

The canvas is wide and only half filled, Independence is not just having a government of its own – still 30% are struggling to make their ends meet – still 33% don’t know how to read and write – we still have the highest female infanticide in the world, we still need a better infrastructure to move any further, still there is no or minimal social security for the old – to cite just a few.

India cant just sit to take a breath at this stage – the list is long and we have miles to go before we actually celebrate being independent!!