In downtown Mumbai, (Bombay) there are only about five stop lights the whole way. I am not talking about expressways, there are none.

The Indian miracle exists in a few cities, and a few campusses. It has not spread out in terms of general infrastructure yet, as I understand.

Been a long time since I've been in India though.

of those rare articles that I read and agreed with everything he said. You are right about infra-structure but education is another huge problem. The real literacy rate is around 50%. There is no way that the majority of poor Indians will ever break the cycle of poverty if they can't even read.

India's biggest problem is, if the upper cast really wants to develop the country. Instead they probably want to have their 800 million servants. Progress would mean the final destruction of cast system.

It is not uncommon to found an interview article in Indian press, which has been written without interviewing anybody.

Scandinavians have had profitable manufacturing in India already 50 years.

-- Happy fishing in ocean of noise!

The truth of the matter is India is still a very closed country. Most of the population has minimal interaction with the outside world. Especially U.S and UK. Call center conversation nuances might escape a minimally trained Indian employee, but we do have a highly educated young population and we need to realize that our resources do not necessarily have to come from the land. Even though we lack natural resources we can invest in education of our vast population, build our infrastructure and turn the negatives into positives. Germany did not have a lot of resources but after World war II there was a mad scramble by U.S and U.S.S.R to obtain German Scientists and technolgy. A couple of years back I invested in a stock called Sasol SSL. (ADR SHARES) somehow they process Diesel fuel from Coal.I was amazed to find out this echnology was developed by the Germans after their supply lines were cut off to run their tanks. The company was originally German but now is located in South Africa. They are heavily invested in China which has large Coal reserves but no diesel. I made a decent return on this investment. My point is this Hitler for all his evil developed his scientists and technolgy and in 1941 that tiny country were more advanced in Rocketry and other sciences than the BRITS or U.S . Germans do not have vast reserves of any natural resource to speak off. Perhaps Indians need a halfway decent leader that knows that the real resource is our people and brains then maybe we will not have to wait 100 odd years to catch up.