Retro India

Language: English
Pages: 324

In the latter half of the twentieth century, the changes in India have been vast and comprehensive. In these decades, economic indicators such as India's growth in GDP rate, the proliferation of the number of Airlines in the Indian skies, the multiplying of car models, the flourishing of telephone connections and moving on to the world of mobiles, televisions going colour from black and white to operating with over a thousand channels, India turning digital, and so on clearly directs that India had taken a crucial turn in its history.
India has changed. And how! The Indian consumer grins. This is notwithstanding the fact that poverty is endemic and the gulf between the rich and the poor continues to widen. The book shares the extensive knowledge gained through years of practice in the HR field. It chronicles the individual journey and the political and economic transformation of the time.
Retro India documents the changes of the time and its impact on human lives - both positive and negative.


Preface
I am not a midnight's child by Rushclean definition. I am more a child of the Republic, born a year and a bit after the announcement, which led India from dominion status to true independence. My formative years were in Kerala, where I stayed in the security and comfort of my parental home. I left home comparatively early. This was as a result of an application sent more for fun than with any degree of seriousness, for one of the country's prized management trainee positions, and against almighty odds, getting myself selected. Thus it was, that a month short of my 20th year, I found myself in a classroom in Delhi along with 11 other young men.
A year later, trained in one of the finest corporate programs of the day, I stepped into th