“Slaves of the system – software slaves”, these words cross my mind whenever I happen to meet young modern India. Stepping in to college, already having been robotized to become engineer of some sort.
Desperate to earn money, with desperate looks, lots of hopes in the confused eyes like a mighty river looking to breach the banks!!
If you think of modern India and buzz, there is only a place for software, politics, and cricket, is there any place for social and economic problems in all glorified Indian media buzz.
Looks like our media and state are forgetting the importance of agriculture in the wake of predicted food shortage in coming years. We are also lagging behind to exploit the complete tourism potential of the country, no need to say about continuing scams on exploitation of rich mineral resources. With more than half of population below poverty line, India is shining with countable 2 million professionals!!
Of course Indian economy has got a push from its hibernation and darkness from cash flow from software and multinationals, approximately 4.5 % of India’s GDP Indian software service industry, contributing for about more than 2 million Job creations. But can this go on forever?
There are many challenges ahead with many countries competing for this space, mean while life story of many software engineers on the other side is all the way changing from brighter to bleak
Growing cities, poor infrastructure and false real estate and enslaving loans! Initial fat salaries and socio economic inequalities instilled by software sector, created a false hope on financial systems like banks and other institutions to provide cheap easy loans, which triggered unsustainable growth in real estate and artificial rise in basic utilities, created mortgage loans, which are so big that more than half of the life time is needed to come out of it. On the other side if you look at the infrastructure for what you paid for, it is almost good to nothing.
Ever expanding cities, poor management, slow and uncompleted infrastructure project by our great state governments are adding to the pain.
So some people found an answer to all this, great escape to America, permanent solution all the problems! …problem is just now beginning.
For just an illustration there was an old civilization in the South Pacific Ocean 2,300 miles west of South America, called Easter Islands. History goes that collapse of the ancient Easter Islanders, coincides with the excessive use of island's trees resulting in decline of its civilization around the 17th and 18th century. May be we can refer this to our Indian situation, we are becoming excessively depending on other countries to provide job to our intelligent minds, instead of creating and promoting more and more manufacturing industries which can make use of vast available cheap labor and produce basic Indian goods ,to meet day to day life.
Do we find any Made in India product outside India, may be few. India has lot to learn from china in this area. This is the right time when Asia is thriving in economy,
Hope India asserts its position, Hope we will not fall behind!!