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Congratulations to the graduating class, to their professors and to their proud parents and friends. If you are typical, you are happy to be leaving university and embarking on a new journey, sad to be leaving familiar settings behind, and worried whether you will measure up to the challenges of wherever you are going for work or higher studies. You are also concerned about whether you have taken or will take the right next step. This is all perfectly normal. Given that you have been trained well here. The answer to the question of whether you will measure up is almost surely as to whether you have taken the right next step, the answer is less comforting, you will never know. My task is to leave you with some last thoughts as you graduate. As I reflected on what I should speak on, I thought I would speak on a recent experience that offers what the Americans call a teachable moment and then I want to give you some career advice for what it is worth. To get to the experience start first with where India is. India is the fastest growing large country in the world though with manufacturing capacity utilization low and agricultural growth slow following two bad monsoons, our potential is undoubtedly higher.
Growth however is just one measure of performance. The level of per capita GDP is also important. We are still one of the poorest large countries in the world on a per capita basis and have a long way to go before we reasonably address the concerns of each one of our citizens.