India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
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Aravind Adiga Quote
“Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.'”
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