Ignore Pakistan, Heed China

January 27, 2002 on 9:56 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

A few years ago the respected head of a multinational company observed the unreal quality of our public discourse. He said that he had read our newspapers voraciously for two weeks and for every report on China he had counted eight on Pakistan. “To the world at large only China and India matter in Asia,” he said. “When people say that the 21st century will belong to Asia, they have China in mind, and then India. Japan doesn’t count, because its demographics are wrong. Pakistan doesn’t even exist in the big picture. Continue reading…

Playing to Win

January 13, 2002 on 9:54 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

The stubborn persistence of our software exports is a source of some embarrassment to our armchair intellectuals who have been regularly predicting their crash. Instead, they have kept growing by an amazing 50 per cent a year for more than a decade, and even in this worst year in the industry’s history they will grow 30 per cent. Any other industry would die for this sort of constancy, and so would our cricket team. Continue reading…

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