So incongruously but not surprisingly theMake in IndiaWeek in Mumbai — India's busiest time-starved city — has the architectural wonder of the Global Vipassana Pagoda (the world's largest ever stone dome without supporting pillars) and six Vipassana meditation centres in its suburbs to enable objective experiential understanding of life's practical deeper realities by taking the free-of-all-cost residential 10-day Vipassana courses. It is a life changer.

From experience across 22 years I have absolutely no doubt that Vipassana is the single-most powerful force of beneficial change now sweeping India by enabling the individual to change negative habit patterns of the mind.

'Make in India' cannot successfully co-exist with a culture of corruption. And as happened in Burma (Myanmar) of the 1950s Vipassana is a proven corruption buster that is again taking root in India after over 2000 years (see Burma's Anti-corruption Crusader *4).

This multi-dimensionalMake in India Weekincludes a cultural festival: a daily 'Mumbai Design Trail' concerts art exhibitions and a food fair in the quaint beautiful Cross Maidan (ground) that casually sees about 20 cricket teams simultaneously playing in a grassy field that nature originally designed for three matches.

It is this crowded chaotic but safely co-existing Cross Maidan cricket code that works just as simply across the country: 'India is a chaos that works' as a writer famously said.

But withMake in India chaos has to retire into pavilions of the past and give way for a more disciplined methodical work culture to bridge the gap between what is now and promise of what is to be.

With a $1.2 trillion economy by GDP all right India still ranks 130 in the latest United Nations Development Index (for year 2014) placed bafflingly below Palestine (113) and Iraq (121). But since China sits at No. 90 far below Palau (60) and Iran (69) questions arise if the U.N methodology has accurately worked out development versus population size ratio.

This index or that India's economic development — as has been consistently projected in recent years — continues not only as the world’s fastest growing economy but as a stable economy. It's a combination of being a steady democracy with a huge expanding consumer market.

Make in Indiaorganizer and Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pointed out 'Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in India is growing at 38% while globally there's a sharp fall.'

With more FDI or lessMake in Indiais paving a far-reaching development pathway with the journey depending on strengthening a national culture of honest hard work.

For meMake in Indiaappears more a work ethics upgrade for one of the world’s oldest civilizations the coming of age for a young India. India has the largest youth population according to the UN with a stupendous 356 million citizens aged 10-24.

Whenever I interact with 20-year olds like a Sanjay Nekkanti co-founder of India's first private satellite manufacturing company Dhruva Space I sense a generation far removed from the diffident hesitant country of my school days.

I happily see a self-confident young India awakening far more mature than we were at that age and fully capable of makingMake in Indiawork.

Notes:

1) The 25 Focus Industry Sectors inMake in India Week Mumbai.

2)Make in Indiabackground;Schedule for the Make in India Week February 13 to 20 2016.

3)“What is Happiness? Is this all there is?” talk at the World Economic Forum;Dhamma Pattana Vipassana Centrein Mumbai for corporate government officials professionals.

4) Sayagyi U Ba Khin independent Burma’s first Accountant General:Burma's Anti-Corruption Crusader.

Raja Murthy is a Mumbai-based journalist writing for the Statesman since 1990 and Asia Times since 2003 – besides having been a long-term contributor to the Times of India Economic Times Elle etc. He shuttles between Mumbai and the Himalayas.

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