Khalil Gibran, poet and philosopher from Lebenon, whose name many Indians would not have even heard of, in the same way as many Indians would not have read Gitanjali of Rabindra Nath Tagore, because our priorities about material life have made us so selfish and to some extent even cruel, that we are too busy in our work to earn as much money as possible in the shortest possible time, and sometimes by any means possible, that although India is considered all over the world the only centre and source of spiritual knowledge, we, Indians, ignore this fact and forget to read or remember what Tagore said or what Gibran said, says "When you work, you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret". His saying is nowhere more true than in India because Indians have immense desire to work. They leave their homes, villages, cities, even country in search of work, and they work hard to improve their living conditions.
But unfortunately, as compared to the developed countries where people work less and have all the possible facilities to make the life most comfortable, Indians work the hardest in very difficult conditions, and majority of them live in miserable conditions with the least comforts and the lowest living standard.
In earlier days, the british exported Indians in masses to various countries to work as manual labourers in the sugarcane fields or elswhere. Nowadays, the work has evolved, and all the work which is done by qualified IT professionals - programmers, analysts, project managers, call centre operators, etc., can be grouped as IT labour. The developed countries need cheap IT labour in great quantity and that is being provided in bulk by India.
Now is the right time when it needs to be decided by Indians whether they want to remain a cheap labour source of both manual labour and IT labour, themselves and their coming generations, and thus remain at the mercy of those who use this cheap labour, be it a handful of Indians or many foreigners. Or, they want to change it all to control their own destiny by themselves, by raising their level of competence in such a manner that they are respected for their innovative skills, a level of competence which when achieved would not be a level of competence used and exploited by the rich people, both Indians and foreigners, in India and in rich/developed countries because of low cost and very low salaries, but which would make the Indians automatically superior, valuable and respected by all the world because of their innovative advanced technical leadership, skills and products.