If the advertisements are to be believed, the Indians haven't yet decided if shunning the US is a better option or embracing it is.
There is this advertisement of a motorbike that has an young Indian riding in the dilemma of accepting or rejecting an employment offer from the US. He goes to a construction site, looks up at the impressing skyscrapers in the making and makes the decision on the spot. He will stay back. "I don't need your job, Mr. Richards", he says and displays the Indian side to his civic sense by tearing up his acceptance letter and littering the street with debris.
Then there are two ads, both from HDFC, the financial services behemoth in India. The more poignant one is where a dejected daughter returns to inform her parents that while she was accepted to an US school, the scholarship she managed would cover just half the expenses. Her mischievously beaming father breaks it to her how he has been saving for this situation ever since the girl was a toddler.
As we transcend from one generation to another, hopes and aspirations are changing as is changing the outlook towards the West. I sincerely hope we imbibe from the West something more than just calling the last alphabet "zee". Whether we do it by going to the United States or otherwise is an individual choice.
There is this advertisement of a motorbike that has an young Indian riding in the dilemma of accepting or rejecting an employment offer from the US. He goes to a construction site, looks up at the impressing skyscrapers in the making and makes the decision on the spot. He will stay back. "I don't need your job, Mr. Richards", he says and displays the Indian side to his civic sense by tearing up his acceptance letter and littering the street with debris.
Then there are two ads, both from HDFC, the financial services behemoth in India. The more poignant one is where a dejected daughter returns to inform her parents that while she was accepted to an US school, the scholarship she managed would cover just half the expenses. Her mischievously beaming father breaks it to her how he has been saving for this situation ever since the girl was a toddler.
As we transcend from one generation to another, hopes and aspirations are changing as is changing the outlook towards the West. I sincerely hope we imbibe from the West something more than just calling the last alphabet "zee". Whether we do it by going to the United States or otherwise is an individual choice.
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