WAKE UP CALL FOR INDIANS................. Review on Rang De Basanti

Hi People.... Well some people will be surprised why I am writing on a movie which came months ago.... However, there is a valid reason for that. Somewhere, the movie tried to tell a message which we Indians do not get still. For those of who are reading this review to "still" decide whether to watch Rang de Basanti or not, then please do not read further.

Till now, the movie and the underlying theme rings in my head. RANG DE BASANTI literally means colour of yellow, freedom, independence, new spirit, youth rising in the country and ready to rock the world.

In the movie, it is shown a foreign director comes to make a movie on an Indian revolutionary rather than Indian directors. A similar situation arises in India. Foreign investors have more confidence in our country as compared to our Indian retail investors. A similar scene will be visible in all sectors. We all sit in our home and criticize that our country is not going anywhere? But, a valid question would be what are you doing to improve that? Are you having confidence in your country? We have a number of great (yes, I mean it....) technical and management institutes in the country. But, ultimately, those people either chose foreign destinations for working or for further education and then slog and sweat in the American soil. The reason which everyone say.... I cannot work in PSU sector. But, okay, if u cant work in PSU, I believe the Indian corporate industry is roaring on the world and has plenty of opportunities lying to tapped. What we require now is talent to take us to the top of the world. Don't believe me.... some facts to support my sayings

• Cummins of USA uses its R&D Centre in Pune to develop the sophisticated computer models needed to design upgrades and prototypes electronically and introduce 5 or 6 new engine models a year.

  
  




• Over 100 MNCs have set up R&D facilities in India in the past five years. These include GE, Bell Labs, Du Pont, Daimler Chrysler, Eli Lilly, Intel, Monsanto, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Cummins, GM, Microsoft and IBM.

  
  




• With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428 higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year. Do you know, we produce the largest number of engineering graduates in the world? Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually. Still, we are considered as one of the most backward in terms of infrastructure and technology.......

  
  




• India’s telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore, provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over 8.5 Terabits (8.5Tbs) per second.

  
  




• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world's biggest consulting firm, hires most.

  
  

A snapshot of Indians who have/had made it to the helm of leading global businesses:

• The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla),

  
  




• Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm),

  
  




• Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia),

  
  




• Chief Executive of McKinsey & Co. (Rajat Gupta)

  
  




• President and CFO of Pepsi Cola (Indra Nooyi)

  
  




• Former-President of United Airlines (Rono Dutta)

  
  




• GM of Hewlett Packard (Rajiv Gupta)

  
  




• President and CEO of US Airways (Rakesh Gangwal)

  
  




• Chief Executive of CitiBank (Victor Menezes),

  
  




• Chief Executives of Standard Chartered Bank (Rana Talwar)

  
  




• Chief Executive officer of Vodafone (Arun Sarin)

  
  




• President of AT & T-Bell Labs (Arun Netravali)

  
  




• Vice-Chairman and founder of Juniper Networks (Pradeep Sindhu)

  
  




• Founder of Bose Audio (Amar Bose)

  
  




• Founder, chip designer Cirrus Logic (Suhas Patil)

  
  




• Chairman and CEO of Computer Associates (Sanjay Kumar)

  
  




• Head of (HPC WorldWide) of Unilever Plc. (Keki Dadiseth)

  
  




• Chief Executive Officer of HSBC (Aman Mehta)

  
  




• Director and member of Executive Board of Goldman Sachs (Girish Reddy)

  
  




• Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan)

  
  




• Former CTO of Novell Networks (Kanwal Rekhi)

  
  

  Now some statistics.....................

  
  

38% of doctors in the USA

12% of scientists in the USA

36% of NASA scientists

34% of Microsoft employees

28% of IBM employees

17% of INTEL scientists

13% of XEROX employees

…are Indians.

• Of the 1.5M Indians living in the USA, 1/5th of them live in the Silicon Valley.

  
  




• 35% of Silicon Valley start-ups are by Indians.

  
  




• “IIT = Harvard + MIT + Princeton”, says CBS ‘60 Minutes’.

  
  




• CBS' highly-regarded ‘60 Minutes’, the most widely watched news programme in the US, told its audience of more than 10 Million viewers that “IIT may be the most important university you've never heard of."

  
  




• "The United States imports oil from Saudi Arabia, cars from Japan, TVs from Korea and Whiskey from Scotland. So what do we import from India? We import people, really smart people," co-host Leslie Stahl began while introducing the segment on IIT.

  
  




• There are “cases where students who couldn't get into computer science at IIT, they have gotten scholarships at MIT, at Princeton, at Caltech.”

  
  

William H. Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Microsoft Corporation (b-1955) said:

“…after the Chinese, South Indians are the smartest people in the world.”

“…the smartest, the most successful, most influential Indians who've migrated to the US seem to share a common credential: They are graduates of the IIT.”

“…in science and technology, IIT undergraduates leave their American counterparts in the dust.”

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