India of today is a country with strong sense of self-confidence optimism and with a belief that 'anything is possible'. The country seems to be in a state of active transformation: with a mobile phone a poor construction worker becomes a self-employed person, a water-pump starts with a cell phone when the electricity is available; information about fishing and crops is shared within the community. This would have been unheard of 10 years ago. Today the possibilities seem immense, with new approaches to problem solving and opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid. Almost all stakeholders: Government, industry

academia, the common man all wanting to be part of this new-found dynamism. The few who held on to status quos are also slowly getting converted when they see value to themselves andtheir communities.

With India moving from being a developing economy to a rapidly developing/emerging economyone of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies, and now part of G20,India is truly on the world map. With consistent GDP growth rates for close to two decades, massive economic reforms coupled with a strong attempt to be inclusive in its transformation, India with its government, industry and the citizen are all playing a strong role in this transformation.