Shortly after gaining independence from the United Kingdom, India retained Swiss-French architect LeCorbusier to design an entire city, Chandigarh in Punjab. Today, an even more ambitious project is taking shape on the banks of the Krishna River in the state of Andhra Pradesh. If you have not heard about Andhra,...
The English Language and India's Future
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...
Income or Consumption, statistics can mislead
There is lies, damned lies and statistics. For American marketers, the image below from the new book "The Haves and the Have-Nots,” by World Bank economist Branko Milanovic can fall into the last of those categories. Milanovic sliced the income of national popultions into five percentile slices ("ventiles"), adjusted for purchasing...