But the highlight was something simple - rediscovering "Internationalism". Indians (like me) love the world and everything in it (including India). This is interesting for me as I have seen (and felt) the rise of nationalism in the west. I have been trying to understand why are Indians open towards the world.
Why is that? I think that there are two main reasons:
1. Duality: Genetically, Indians have been comfortable with boxing competing ideologies, philosophies, allegiances and even product preferences into one very Indian framework where the two competing ideas can co-exist.
2. Growth: Living in a hyper-growing economy makes it easier for people to be optimistic (tomorrow is better than yesterday - it actually is for a whole section of the economy when there is growth).
It is truly inspiring to meet good, open minded, talented and straight-forward people.
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