India's dominance in IT outsourcing and its rise in the call center business is often linked to the fact that India offered a large low-cost English speaking population and that this was India's big advantage over China. The truth is more complex and nuanced than that, but I will reserve...
British Historian predicts India and US will lead 21st Century
Writing for Forbes magazine, British Historian Paul Johnson predicts that due to its widespread use of English, India will overtake China and will continue to be a more vibrant supporter of Western liberal ideas. While I am an Indo-phile, I think that Johnson's overreaching. I present you excerpts from his...
Big impact, one missing letter
When Indians speak English, there is occasionally a tendency to say "few" when what is meant is "a few" or to say "little" when the intended meaning is "a little". The indefinite article "a" does not exist in languages such as Hindi. Often this little nuance causes Western executives to...