In this article I summarize some aspects of the current status of the field
of high energy physics and discuss how the next generation of high energy
colliders will aid in furthering our basic understanding of elementary
particles and interactions among them, by shedding light on the mechanism for
the spontaneous breakdown of the Electroweak Symmetry.Comment: 42 pages, 27 figures, LaTeX, Invited article for the special issue on
High Energy Physics of the Indian Journal of Physics on the occasion of its
Platinum Jubile