Namaste!

As per recent surveys India is fast recovering from the ailment of corruption at the governance level. This is having its direct positive effect on India’s economy.While a few years ago annual growth rate of around 8 formed the usual target and anything around 6.5, if achieved was considered a great success, today we are almost delivering 10.

The head start can be easily traced back into the India Shining days when The Bhartiya Janta Party led National Democratic Alliance truly actuated the novel proposal quite humbly put forward by our very respected Sardar in Sarkaar Dr. Manmohan Singh in the early 90s.

Today the life of the Great Indian Common Man(GICM), has seen a sea change through the last decade. Looking back in 1995, when the GICM merely formed a class of frugal consumers thriving on the bare minimums plus a little of minimum luxury, when even telephone was neighbor’s envy and personal car, a great source of a student’s inspiration for becoming nothing save an engineer or a doctor, one is certain to heave a sigh of relief and satisfaction.

A handpicked example can be that of my cousin who was born in a house boasting of a radio, way back in the late sixties while his elder son was born with a color television, a refrigerator, an ambassador car and a washing machine around. A family member for quite a few years now, his younger son enjoyed being born into an ac car, P4 computer equipped house with mobile sets strewn here and there.

These are great times and the market is busy like never before. Investments are ample and savings, pretty. The GICM is so spending on their leisures as to make lives of many other GICMs. Today young brains are gaining courage to collaborate with talent and not merely hunt down a medical or an engineering berth. The very same busy markets are generating greats jobs at the expenses of the piling counts of Jobless Americans. Overall, the biggest graduate manufacturer in the world is fast fast finding a booming market for herself in her.

Another gleaming part of the sphere is bollywood. Not quite as an industry though but more as a socio-cultural institution, bollywood has matured so much in the last 10 years as it had never dreamt of in its earlier 9 decades of existence. As far as content is concerned, movies are closer to the GICM like never before. A fine example is Khosla ka Ghosla, revolving strictly around the life of a Delhi based GICM this movie is blessed with masterpiece screenplay and really moving performances. Another movie I remember exploiting human nature like never before is Raghu Romeo. These in addition to others like the Sunil Shetty starrer Ye Tera Ghar Ye Mera Ghar, about a woman diagnosed with mental instability, and Lagey Raho Munnabhai with sumptuous dosage of Gandhigiri have pulled bollywood out of the whimsical world of the nodding ShammyKapoor, sobbing Manoj Kumar and the angry Amitabh.

This is a cunning hint at India’s prosperity. Dreams don’t sale the same any more, rather GICM is the hot stuff out there.This goes a long way in showing that the GICM is being increasingly content with their lifestyle . They are confident enough to fulfill their dreams on their own so there remains feeble point in spending on its fictious silver screen counterpart.

 

Thumbs up to the Shining India.

Let Good Lord bless the Italian Indians.