Saturday, September 02, 2006

India's New Manufacturing Economy
Worth a read article in the NY Times about the new manufacturing economy in India. A lot of my co-workers are from India and they are all exemplary individuals- well educated, articulate and versed in public discourse; their perspectives on the vast cultural, physical and technological shifts that are transforming- or not, in some places-- their country make for compelling lunchtime conversations. Imagine the last 200 years of "progress" the US has been through occurring in a <= 20 year timeframe and you can begin to visualize the imp/explosive changes overtaking that continent.
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laura said...

... everytime I post an entry on my blog, I head over to yours, and see you've just posted too!
Spooky.
re India ... the speed of the changes there is, I believe, what has made the fiction coming out of India the most fascinating in recent years; or, it's one of several factors ... But the tension between the past and zooming-toward-you future is the main subject of much Indian fiction, most notable, perhaps, Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of stories, The Interpreter of Maladies, which I highly recommend to anyone. And, of course, there's the work of favorite, Rohinton Mistry, and many, many others, including the incredibly charming and affecting little sort-of allegory, The Snake Charmer (by, I think, Vijay Singh).
A similar body of work is starting to come out China--read Yiyun Li's beautiful collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
Off to the marina to check on the boats, especially to bail out my namesake, the broken-down little Lulu. Hope to get some good pix of stormy waters! Check my blog later today ...

11:24 AM
laura said...

hey robin, i just figured out that what i thought was headlibe is a link to the NYT story you reference ... cool!
how do you do that?
don't you need to subscribe to get full text of NYT stories? and if so, they let you copy them to others?!

3:14 PM

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