This buoyancy makes us hope we'll proudly overshoot our targets, though we don't want to revise the official target.

The IT manufacturing industry is glad that anomalies of inverted excise tariff structure for the computer manufacturing industry have been addressed. It will also encourage manufacturing of high-end products such as notebooks and servers.

In the 1980s prices came crashing down to 10,000 rupees, a plethora of cable networks arrived with channels in local languages -- that's been put to use in the information technology revolution now.

Even until a few years back, replete with infrastructural deficiencies like inadequate water supply, power and poor roads, Indian could have hardly hoped of becoming a destination for manufacturing something as hi-tech as a microchip anytime before decades. But now as India witnesses an explosive consumption of electronic goods and equipment, this market has become too big to ignore.

There's a lot of learning from the television revolution.