For years, it was talked about as India's "Brain Drain." Smart young students would take one of the most competitive entrance examinations in the world, get a bachelor's degree in engineering -- and promptly go West.

Three years ago, IIT Bombay set up an IT incubator. While it is too early to draw conclusions, there are initial indications that the incubator has been successful.

"We have to create opportunities in India and promote people who are young and ambitious."

China is touted as the next economic and military superpower, but India may yet overtake it in the new global order.

China's foreign investment inflow is running at $US53 billion a year, as against India's $US5 billion.

India's average growth rate has been about 6 per cent, meaning its 1.1 billion people -- with half China's per capita income -- are falling behind their Chinese counterparts.

Indian visitors to China are almost driven to despair ...

India is plugged into Silicon Valley; China into the Wal-Mart.

At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I have to ask ...

What ever happened to lying on your back in the Sheep Meadow and watching the clouds, or to chatting with a friend in person at Starbucks?

The pace of modern urban life is frantic enough without our feeling obligated to be wired at every moment, in every corner of Manhattan.

"In this globalization of information technology and outsourcing, the beneficiaries will be those who are most flexible and able to organize themselves around the opportunities."

Strategic frame analysis is an approach to communications research and practice that pays attention to the public's deeply held worldviews and widely held assumptions. Recognizing that there is more than one way to tell a story, strategic frame analysis taps into decades of research on how people think and communicate.

Thank you, Netflix.

Netflix not only changed my routine, it also turned me into a different kind of movie watcher. Culturally, I am no longer the same person.

It may seem a bit unnatural, but more and more of our social problems and complaints stem from our affluence, not our poverty.

Obesity now rivals smoking as the largest cause of premature death.

Getting wealthier spawns other complaints. One is the "time squeeze" -- the sense that we're more harried than ever. Actually, it's not true.

Still, people gripe -- and griping rises with income.

Colin Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous debate in the US, sought to assure Indians on Tuesday that the Bush administration would not try to halt the outsourcing of high-technology jobs to their country.

White House: "We are concerned when Americans lose jobs, and we are focused on creating jobs for American workers, and the best way to do that is to open markets around the world, including in India."

The epidemic of obesity epitomizes the unsettled character of progress in affluent Western society. Our lives are characterized by too much of a good thing -- too much to eat, to buy, to watch and to do, excess at every turn.

Increasingly, Western life is afflicted by the paradoxes of progress. Material circumstances keep improving, yet our quality of life may be no better as a result -- especially in those cases, like food, where enough becomes too much.

These are the two basic responses to globalization: Infosys and Al Qaeda.

... a culture that prizes education, science and rationality ... rewards anyone with a good idea ...