India is changing???

I guess it is. After coming back to India, I have observed so many things in last 6 months that were unimaginable two years before. Mangalore now has two new malls with many more planned to come up. I imagine shopping in single shop in Saibeen complex for two years. It has Adlabs now, where you can watch new movies on first day of release in AC. I remember watching movies after 6 months of their release in theatres where people used to take their shirts off because of heat. Kolhapur now has big bazaar, subhiksha even a FM channel on radio. There are many things like this but two of them -

Impact of EPL - When i went to Kolhapur last week, a soccer competition was in progress. Soccer was always popular in Kop, with lot of clubs in town and tournaments organized frequently. Some clubs had foreign players coming from countries like Kenya, nigeria. but one prominent thing which I noticed this time is the impact of EPL in the city. The stadium where the tournament was going on had huge hordings of players like Christiano Ronaldo and Steven Gerrard. The spectators were wearing the t-shirts of Manu, Arseanal, Chelsea. This to me was a live example of penetration of global phenomenon into even smallest of cities in India.

Share market - I started trading in shares about 4 years back after completing my first year of job. None of my friends traded shares or even knew anything about it. Most of them preferred to invest money in traditional ways. These days everyone is attracted towards the trading after the rise of sensex last year. There are 4-5 TV channels dedicated to all kinds of trading, even in Hindi. Every newspaper has a separate edition containing business news. The paper stall owner near my house tells that now-a-days editions of Business Standard newspaper get over before others.

I need to make lot of changes to my thinking to be part of this changing India!