Euphoria is the only feeling that an NRI feels whenever s/he visit home. The unparalleled sense of being at home and the elation of being amongst your own can never cease to exist for an Indian. It is correctly suggested that the true respect and admiration of one’s loved ones and country come when it is far off. I have now experienced the same and so have all the NRI’s, India holds very a very special place for all of us.
The fresh smell of the Indian soil, the love and warmth of the hugs and affection of the family just can not be recreated in any other part of the world. It is no wonder that I noticed a foreigner video recording and documenting the way I met my mom at the airport. We were meeting after a gap of six months. This was my third trip in one and a half years.
As soon as I entered the reception lobby for arrivals at Indira Gandhi International I saw a marked difference in the way India has started showing the sings of development. People everywhere were happy. Positivity always attracts more positivity. I felt embracing vibrations of positivity in the air. Unlike in the past everyone was happy, everyone was happy and proud being an Indian.
As soon as we turned towards Gurgaon on NH-8 there were concrete signs of development, the development that everyone can witness, the development that will make India a developed state, a superpower. Symbols of growth in form of infrastructure developments are infusing people of thinking about more development in the right direction.
Next few days I visited the malls and to my pleasant surprise found their facilities exceeding any mall in any city of Europe. The self respecting feeling that we have the best, we too can produce the best and can enjoy the best has made a huge difference in the outlook of every individual on the street. Even though international super brands have made a fashion lifestyle statement, Indian brands were in no regards lagging behind. If there was crowd rushing in a McDonalds/Pizza Hut outlet, there was an even greater number of people wanting to get in a Chor Bazzar/Sagar Ratna/Moti Mahal, if there was a Christian Dior watch on the display it was rightly complimented by a Titian and an HMT quartz, all the variety and that too for everyone. Except for a rare few I do not think that there are brand on this earth that we do not get in India. Indians now know their true identity and are no longer longing for foreign brands like crazy. Indians have become flamboyant and have started to enjoy the rewards of hard work. The generation next is aware of all the new technological advances the country has made and it was heartening to find them using it for the betterment of India. I found few kids sending MMS with a picture of a road block and a traffic jam to a news channel in order to inform others.
I felt a public mass movement almost a renaissance of sorts striving for a better quality of life. Services, be it public or private have become so much better. Though I found out that those have also become a bit dearer but no one seems to mind the price for the quality that is being provided. Buildings, cars, fuel, flyovers, roads, water, electricity, food products every major minor thing in life has experience a quality increment in India. The best part out was the attitude of the common man had changed form ‘Chalta hai’(anything will do) to ‘Only theek quality hi chalegi’(only the best will do). With that attitude I am pretty hopeful that we will become a superpower before it is theoretically projected.
Emotionally charged up after gathering lots of love and affection from my land I left for Copenhagen with a proud heart and a dream of rejoining my fellow countrymen on the path of being developed.
