Ask HN: How to do freelance development from India?

As a developer in India, Undergraduate with around a few years of working in C for a large multinational company(translate: less of development and more of sustenance and debugging) and no other development experience, the realization that people on the internet are REALLY GOOD at what they do, a desire to be the same and a will to see it through.

How the heck do people get started?!!! How do I start?!! What are the skills in demand that I should aim to build? Basically,how to be a better developer??