It was 2 o'clock in the night when three of us were talking about all the useless things in the world. It was afterall a Friday night and there was no Irene. But suddenly one of my friend asked me why I am not pursuing higher studies and I replied that I do not want to settle abroad. "Why not?" and I carefully whisked away the question by saying that the reasons are personal and emotional. It was my turn now and I asked what are your reasons to go abroad and he was also smart enough to say that there are better career options there. Fair enough.
The third of us asked the second that why does he consider US a better career option with job opportunities growing every day. The answer started a chain of discussion between those two and as usual the discussion went off the premise of the initial question. They discussed everything from India's GDP, its econony, how these would improve if more manufacturing companies open up and so on an so forth.
I had recently watched Swades and listening to this discussion amongst us, I started appreciating the movie even more. The problem as depicted in the movie is the people. The movie tackled very grass root problems of illiteracy, basic amneties and how we, the people, could help solve them. I started thinking that the movie was a masterpiece because it clearly depicted the mentality of all of us.
We are supposed to be among the top brains of the nation. If there is none of us here, then who will make the GDP higher, who will bring manufacturing companies, who will better the economy. It is a hard question to ponder over. It is even harder to stand this truth because we all know it but do not admit it. I have been tormented myself and now I am admitting it.
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