I am on the
road again. For my emails I have turned my "out of office" on and the
phone on my desk has been diverted. On the Company Global Telephone directory I
am listed as "working from another office". The roaming function on
my Blackberry is enabled.
I have
re-routed my cyber world.
I have
activated deviation from my home base from every technical angle. It took only
a tap on a keyboard. A few clicks on the mouse.
It was child's
play.
At the moment
I am back in Bombay. Not of the Sapphire variety. Not the Gin. Those bottles of
tears. I'm in the city. It is called Mumbai now but it will always be Bombay to
me.
If I glance
out of my hotel room I can see the beach side mansion that belongs to Shahrukh
Khan. The Prince of Bollywood.
I don't think
he's home.
There are no
lights on.
I have an open
view of the Arabia sea. If I stretch my neck I can see the Rajiv Ghandi sea
link. It is the bridge that connects Bandra to Worli. The bridge took 10 long
years to build and it cost more than US$300 million.
I am in
Bandra. Worli is the other side of the water. Worli is the main Finance and
Business district for Bombay. It is where the big boys work. Bandra is where
they live and play. Bandra is also one of the expatriate commune centers
of Bombay. It has been for 400 years. Bandra was occupied by the Portuguese in
the 16th Century and then by the British through the 19th and 20th
Centuries.
They both left
their stamps.
Bombay is a
new generation city. So is Delhi. There are massive technology and business
parks expanding in cities like Chennai and Pune and Bangalore. India is on a
roll. The medium age for India is twenty six.
Twenty
six!
The new
generation of Indians are very well educated and they are very technologically
savvy.
Exceptionally smart
Indian women are emerging in business and in politics. They have been unshackled
after generations of gender based suppression. Dare I say it oppression. Those
that I have met are ambitious. They are the real deal.
The young
adults of India are excited about the prospect of greater global opportunity.
India can compete big time with the multi-national giants that are already in
the machine.
If they get
their shit together.
They may in
fact dominate.
Look out
world.
Here they
come.
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