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Essay on India Is The Center Of Outsourcing Revolution
India’s nearly 1 billion people are indeed a sixth of all humanity. And, to give one statistic a helpful nudge towards significance with another, India is the fifth largest economy in the world, a quarter of the earth’s urbanized populaces, a third of the world’s people living in democracy, the second largest among the developing economies, and the first massive, complex developing country to successfully transit from a socialist to a market economy without massive help from somebody else. India is a modern industrial state whose ancient roots still condition a collective vision of life in which thousands of years ago were only yesterday, and will shape much of tomorrow as well.
Even though India is among the oldest continuous civilizations, it has a dynamic modern attitude toward business, sophisticated and literate entertainment, a virile and self-examining media, and a legal and accounting system that conforms to global standards. Visitors will feel quite at home in India’s business community, yet will be ever reminded they are in a land of exotic cultures and ideas.
There was, and is, much innovation in India, yet India’s roots have much to teach.
India’s history is unique, formidable, and powerful. Despite millennia of conquests and colonization’s, India has preserved its sense of cultural continuity. It has an uncanny knack for calmly absorbing the useful ideas of the newly arrived while discarding their excess baggage like so many sacks on the heap of history. So deep and yet so resilient are India’s social and religious ideas that practices one sees everywhere are depicted in carvings and paintings more than 3,000 years old. Ideas that came to show India a thing or two have ended up as debris.
Every attempt to change India into something else has failed. Village life remains very much the same....