Indian It Companies: The Real Achievement

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A ceremony was recently held in Rangoon. There, government ministers and other dignitaries made speeches about the importance of joining the IT revolution while, in the background, young Burmans went on typing something on the keyboards of hundreds of computers.
We see the same phenomenon in India. We have a bumptious minister of information technology; and Silicon Valley Indians who had made good in the IT revolution are ushered into 7 Race Course Road to advise the Prime Minister. The idea, or the wish, is the same
First Published: Aug 29 2000 | 12:00 AM IST