Dropped in Bangalore

On Jul 28,2008 I was dropped into the Great Indian Sea..not the Arabian Sea not the Indian Ocean..the Great Indian Sea..the headquarters of Infosys Technologies at Bangalore.
The journey of 2 hours from the new Bangalore airport to Electonics City was a ride to remember (or to forget ?). So much for the Silicon Valley of India..without the asphalt on road, without the concrete on flyover and bridges, without the glass on bus windows, without the electricity in the traffic lights.
Infosys office though had a different picture. Reading all that stuff about the new India within the old India had made me a bit skeptical but surely no one was wrong. For inside the Infosys office, its a complete world all together. From the bicycles of China to the Mac burgers of US, from the pizzas of Italy to the gyms of Australia, from the architectures of Paris to the banks of England...there was it all..except ,of course, the beers of Germany !! But then, I remind myself, its an office !
And then there was this sea..sea of software engineers from all different parts of the country (and also from different parts of the world, like my badminton friend from Infosys China..Mountain Guo) coming to a single place to achieve their aspirations, aspirations long kept under the hood for centuries.Everywhere I could see there were people and people and people..lots and lots of them. And then a sudden feeling sank into me.

People people everywhere
Not a person to talk.

Who am I ? A mere software engineer. Thats it ? After working in Shanghai for the last 2 years amidst around 400-500 people, I had started carrying an image of me with myself. How pleasant it was to know that everyone in the office knows you and that you know him/her. A courteous smile, an exchange of greeting and the habitual "Ni haoma ?" or "Ni Che Fan Lenma ?". But here in Bagalore, I was no more than 1 of the other 30000 people, all of them more or less the same as me.
Can I really distinguish myself from these hordes of extra ordinary people ?
Can I really stand out with my achievements amidst this sea of talented people ?
Can I really be myself and not be a part of the whole ?

Not sure though, but certainly it seems to me the other (ill) effects of working in such big organisations. I seem to make up my mind to prefer working in small office locations rather than being part of such big messy affairs.
Am I only a drop in the ocean, a drop that originated from the holy glaciers but now a small part of that grandeur river that flows across the land of India and utlimately merges into the ocean. Can a drop really carve out a different path for itself ?
Can a drop really defy the logic of physics and geology and be on its own. Or is it in the drop's destiny to flow in the current wave and make the stream the be-all and end-all of its sole existence ?
Too much of meta physics can drain you out of all your energies, they say.

But going back again to the Infosys office with ever growing population of software engineers seems an ordeal to me now. But then its the Great Indian Sea. Per the ancient Indian scriptures, it was the churning of the sea that produced magnificent pearls of wisdom, thought and action. Will this be the Great India Sea of the India of 21st century ?