'Impossible is nothing’, an Adidas ad remindsthe world. In India, we live by that mantra, never mindhow daunting the task! Have brain. Will attempt. Not forus the coyness of saying, ‘Well … it’s not a subject I knowmuch about.’ Rarely will an Indian confess to not knowing something. Ours is a marvellous nation of sabjantawallahs. Everybody is an expert.
We have an opinion on everything. And we aren’tembarrassed to go right ahead—often, recklessly—whereother, more cautious, people sensibly wouldn’t. Corecompetence? Don’t be silly. How restricting is that! All round competence—that’s what we excel in. Often, the consequences that follow from such a gung-ho attitudeare disastrous. But that doesn’t stop a soul from trying.
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But it's poignantly true! Impossible is nothing in India. Though in Bombay, everything seems impossible at first: NO Madam, you cannot get the table by the window; No Madam, the room cannot be changed; No Madam, I cannot give you a discount. YET, magically, insistence breaks the barriers, opens the doors, changes the attitudes. India is a country of tests, great, amazing, multicolored, infuriating and fragrant tests. But it's also the country of possibility. It's exactly the attitude that "everything is possible" which will make it the superpower of the future.
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