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Rajiv Gandhi on electronics and the industrial revolution. He says: "The distinguished guests, delegates, ladies, and gentleman. It gives me great pleasure to be with you all because this is a field that interests me and I feel it's critical for India's growth. Electronics is really like a nervous system of a nation and as a nation evolves that nervous system must evolve with it just as it evolved with the species as they evolved from the earlier species barely 250 odd now junctions to humans with maybe 15 million odd analysts functions. We need a similar network in our country if India is to progress if India is to move ahead. If we are to keep up with the world we missed one bus to the Industrial Revolution a certain boost in muscle power and we were not able to catch up for 300 years ma
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