I was sitting in the waiting lounge of a large MNC in the city and since clients have this endearing habit of making you wait for hours before they deign to meet you, I had quite some time on hand with little else to do but twiddle my thumbs and watch the goings on. As I watched people come and go, it struck me that it was amazing the number of people who rub shoulders daily in any one of these MNCs. The variety of people employed here come from every nook and corner of the country and in some cases outside it. Here they meet and converse daily, work together on complex accounts with a common goal in mind. I am sure their background is furthest from their mind. It doesnt matter which caste you are from or what your religion is. At the very most you could be labelled North or south Indian but that is more to do with your fluency with Hindi than anything remotely communal. But with more "south" Indians speaking fluent Hindi (I am one of them) even these walls are gradually disappearing.
Isnt it amazing that it takes a foreign entity to truly unite us. It takes an MNC to bring us together on no other account but our talents and our skill sets and then make us play to our strengths for the common good. Cheers to all the Intels, IBMs, Microsofts etc out there. If nothing else you bring out the Indian in us. You demonstarte that when we come together forgetting our diverse backgrounds and throw ourselves into anything - there is nothing that we cannot achieve. You prove to us that India has what it takes to win - we just have to spread the revolution, the so-called urbanizing to other parts of India as well. We have to recreate Bangalores and Mumbais in other Indian towns. We need to make economic growth and betterment more important that petty issues like where we come from or which caste do we belong to. Then India will be unstoppable.
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