Admiring Indians abroad touching dizzy heights in various fields, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said inspired by their example, his dream was to see emergence of a new India where people back home would not feel the need to go outside the country to pursue their ambitions.
"The world today recognises that given the proper environment, people of India are second to none," Singh said at a reception hosted in his honour by Indian Ambassador to US Ronen Sen and attended by over 1000 Indian-Americans in New York late on Thursday night.
The 71-year-old architect of India's economic reforms was repeatedly cheered as he told them that no group of immigrants in American history have achieved what they have within a span of one generation.
Singh, the bureaucrat-turned-politician, received a standing ovation from the gathering that included scientists, doctors, academics, engineers, businessmen and Indian-Americans working in different spheres.
Telling them that the 21st century is going to be India's century, Singh asked them to contribute to their motherland in all possible manner.