One quarter of US goes on a stand still due to an unscheduled power failure, while something like this doesn't seem to affect India very much. What keeps India going upbeat? The answer is its people; their fabric is of a tougher kind.
Struggle is not an issue of social debate but is a way-of-life, it's their whole mind set.
This is the land where over 50 religions survive together; it is the land where women have taken their men through a sound thrashing session to stop them from drinking Alcohol. It is a land of economic opportunity, CEOs of MNCs now prefer India over other Asian countries, for they can so much blend into it as if it were their home land .

Considered around the world as a country that doesn't adapt very well to western patterns of life, it goes to prove them wrong, because by 2010, India will become the largest English -speaking nation in the world, overtaking the United States. Indians have taken to western food and culture more enthusiastically than anybody else. Countries like China, Japan and Korea prefer their own cuisine. It is emerging very strongly as the knowledge and talent capital of the world. Its contribution in the field of IT is undisputable; its emerging BPO status is already causing ripples in the western shores.

All this socio-economic reform is again due to the people of Indian and their confident mindset. Indeed a surviving legend.

For a detailed analysis on the above refer source.

Source: Outlook, August 15, 2003 - Surviving India, www.outlookindia.com

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