Independence Day: No Red Lights For Unstoppable India | India News

As we turn a sprightly 76, we’re not going places. We’ve gone places. High places. Places across the globe.

By purchasing power parity we’re the world’s third largest economy.
The realm of multinational business is ablaze with constellations of made-in-India stars. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. Satya Nadella, Microsoft… It’s a long, distinguished list that gets longer every day. Till recently, it included Ajay Banga, now banker to the world.

A maha Rishi is the Rule in Rule Britannia. Kamala Devi Harris, of part Tamil descent, is the first woman to be Vice-President of the US, a role ‘a heartbeat away’ from the most powerful office on Earth.
At 18 million and counting, the Great Indian Diaspora is by far the most influential on the planet.
With Bollywood leading the show, Screen India is the world’s biggest cinema industry, producing over 2,400 feature films a year, leaving the ‘Dream Factory’ of Hollywood far behind.
India is the go-to chemist for over 200 countries, who depend on it for medicines and vaccines.
Our Unified Payments Interface is serving users as far afield as France and Singapore, with many others standing in line.
We are literally over not just the Moon, but also Mars, thanks to Chandrayaan and ISRO.
From yoga to Ayurveda, from Rushdie to RRR, Brand India is the softest of superpowers.
In cuisine, there’s naan to beat the thali, which tikkas all the right boxes on the international palate.
Unstoppable India. The force is not with us. The force is us.
The panorama artwork, ‘Unstoppable India’ was created on TOI’s special invitation by Neelabh Banerjee, National Creative Director of Reliance Industries Ltd, and one of India’s most popular and acclaimed cartoonists. Earlier, he had a long association with TOI