Edit on Ratan Tata's "Dream" : Dreams Unltd

The world thrives on dreams. On people who dream big enough to change it. Visionaries, revolutionaries, inventors and great leaders—all start out with a dream and a conviction to make it come true. Most people usually dream of acquiring wealth, power and prestige. Then there are some who dream of creating things that would make the world sit up and take notice. The world as we see it today is the outcome of a million dreams that blossomed over the ages, battling contemptuous smirks, malicious assaults and vehement opposition. Whatever be the type, dreams of all sorts are fuelled by a desire to change and improve the present, to take life to a better, higher level in the future. At an individual level, a dream might simply mean moving one individual’s life to a higher step. A larger dream, on the other hand, envisages an upward movement in the lives of great multitudes. It might be a dream of freedom from foreign rule, of bringing equality to all, of getting technology to change the lives of the masses or of taking humanity into realms hitherto unknown, but most dreams and revolutions at the onset seem far-fetched and impossible to attain. Of course, once they are realised, they leave their mark on the world forever.What goes into the making of a dream is the ability to look ahead of your time, meticulousness to plan its execution and sheer grit to withstand the buffets of multiple, inevitable setbacks. In the battle between frowning sceptics and doughty dreamers, it’s the ‘yes, we can’ approach that makes all the difference. A dream is much more than just a vision; it is a work in progress. And it’s not just the passion of one individual; rather it entails a multitude of sacrifices, efforts and commitments on the part of many others who might be associated with it, however tiny that association may be. When one person dreams a dream, several others get involved. And when that dream is a larger one, the entire society, sometimes an entire country, or maybe even the world gets involved. That’s what happened when Gandhi launched his non violent resistance, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google, when Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go in space, when Reliance revolutionised telecom in India, and when Tata delivered what was a near impossibility in the world of cars.So, when a man like Ratan Tata tells the world that there is yet another dream of his which remains unfulfilled, it is bound to fuel speculations about the nature of this dream. The man who has not only shown the world again and again how seemingly impossible dreams can be turned into reality, but also inspired the dreams of a million others would be sure to have another head-turner and eye-popper up his sleeve this time. It is exciting to merely imagine what kind of upgradation this dream might bring to the millions of lives that he has touched, not to mention to his own company that he has taken to dizzying heights. When Martin Luther King Jr spoke the famous words “I have a dream” in a speech in 1963, little would he have imagined Barack Obama rising to the topmost position in the United States of America, over forty years later. When Ratan Tata says, “I have a dream”, the entire country would be waiting with bated breath for something that might, perhaps, lead us to change the way we dream.