Introduction:India in a Global Age; or, The Neoliberal Epiphany

Here I was in Bangalore more than 500 years since Columbus sailed over the horizon, using the rudimentary navigational technologies of his day, and returned safely to prove definitively that the world was round and one of India's smartest engineers, trained at his country s top technical institute and backed by the most modern technologies of his day, was essentially telling me that the world was flat as flat as that screen on which he can host a meeting of his whole global supply chain. Thomas L. Friedman