I did not hesitate one minute when the opportunity after my

five years being here, somebody said well lot of Indians are

not taking citizenship.

I said I am adopted to this system number one.

Number two, I am a product now of this system as much as I may

have been a product of the Indian system at one point in time.

That to me Declaration of Independence was like a vision statement

which was absolutely motivating, inspiring and totally innovative

and unique.

But the intervening years that we spent to get to the Constitution

required a Revolutionary War, and that was a very violent impact,

which to me today, I look at it as a collaborative effort, not

as a competitive effort.

And it was the collaboration of the masses that allowed those

people to fight the greatest ever empire that had ever been

created and in the name of globalization of business and trade.

And that’s where I kind of look at it in saying what is going

on today in the world and how do we look at the fifteen percent

of the population that we call as the G seven population versus

the the rest of the world and how do we relate to that.

And I think the United States has a amazingly unique opportunity

in twenty twenty six as we celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth

anniversary of that Declaration of Independence and renew that

whole commitment given what has happened in the intervening

two hundred and fifty years.

And I think being an American is beyond just an individual.

It is an idea and an experiment that started two hundred and

fifty years since God and has gotten us to where we are today

beyond the industrial revolution as we go through the cognitive

revolution with the help of A I A G I and what I call it as

the synthetic biology that is already in practice and has been

developing really fast.

And that is sort of what I think and American is to continue

the experiment of leading towards universalization of that Declaration

of Independence.

And I would appreciate all of the people to come together and

collaborate to use technologies to create a future which is

really golden for all.

Because the idea of nation state as it was conceived in the

Westphalian agreement is no longer applicable because of the

evolution that has taken place.

And it was the Great Awakening that took place before the Declaration

of Independence was created.

And I will always remain thankful to people like Locke and Montesk

who really inspired after hundreds of years to create that Declaration

of Independence.

But between that vision statement of declaration to when we

implemented it as a constitution, we had to go through a lot

of violence.

And do we really need to go through another set of might as

right kind of violent competition or can we really learn to

collaborate as human beings is my sort of little wish.