India Beckons portrays the story of a scientist trained at Harvard University, seeking to contribute to world class clinical proteomics research in his motherland India. The protagonist overviews his journey and hurdles faced by him to fulfill his goal of setting up a world-class proteomics research facility in India. With a vision for innovation, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, a premier institute in India, provided the protagonist with a platform and the basic facilities to set up a lab. “India Beckons” is about hard-work, perseverance and the vision for a better tomorrow, which can transform difficulties into opportunities and dreams into realities. It is not just about the physical journey that an individual takes but the metaphoric journey which inspires one to come back and pay homage to their motherland by contributing to its development.