Since its independence, India has been defined by socialism, poverty and a Hindu caste system, a person determines its place in society of birth. Now, amid an explosion of economic growth, millions of Indians are étreignant long ambitions unthinkable: a better life than their parents and create a better life for their children.

“My son had followed in the footsteps of my 10 years,” said Sanjaya Sharma, 39 years. He works, like his father did so at a crematorium on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, where pyres meeting open to more than 100 concrete slabs. Mr. Sharma’s mission is to ensure facilities completely incinerated, and whether children of the deceased are not available, to pierce the skull with a stick in a Hindu sacred rite. A working group of Indian society deserves to Mr. humblest jobs Sharma 200 rupees, or about $ 5 per day.

Well, the father of five said: “I do not want my children to do what I do. I want them to fall into the economy, is for a trade securities, computers and learn to win for themselves. “Mr. Sharma and his wife, his oldest drag a 14 year old girl named Khushboo good grades. Khushboo said she wants a” good job in the private sector, Bombay or in America, with the old name Mumbai.

The new sense of possibility felt Indians, many in the lower grades, is one of the most profound social consequences of major economic revival of this nation of 1.1 billion euros.

Economic growth has averaged about 8.6% per annum for the last four years, a rate that if sustained, would double the average income in a decade. Indian companies until the device Western rivals. Armed Indian specialists, now is back from abroad at home, greater chance to see here the success of an enterprise. Flocking Indians are the poorest villages to cities in search of new jobs and a better life in the lot.

“It was a psychological breakthrough,” says André Béteille, president of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. The 73 years has studied the Indian company in India since shortly after independence obtained from Britain in 1947. “Parts of the Indian population believing that both as a person.