The Next Giant?
- added September 27, 2007
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- MitchKoss
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India's globalization-driven economic boom seems to make everyone nuts. It makes Americans nuts with worry about jobs lost overseas. It makes Indians nuts with euphoria. But when Tracey Chang visits Infosys, the high-tech out-sourcing company that's the poster child of India's boom, she hears of few things that make India's situation look much different.
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awesome - great work.
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- conorknighton
- 09/27/07
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Tracey Chang and I were shooting some stories related to the rapid economic growth of India--because as the world's second most populous nation, India has the potential to be a global giant. We booked a visit to Infosys, the Bangalore IT company to get some footage of an Indian company that exists because it does jobs--from India--that replace skilled workers in the US. We were also told that someone referred to as Kris would give us an interview. It wasn't until the day before our visit that we found out that Kris is Infosys's Chief Operating Officer. And when he strolled out on the lawn to speak with Tracey, he was so unassuming, we had to surreptiously check his title on his business card to make sure that we hadn't misunderstood who he is. The second, much bigger surprise was the point that Kris raised--that an even an economic boom needs the support of all the people in a nation, or it cannot be sustained. India's boom is lifting hundreds of millions of Indians into higher levels of prosperity, but it is also not yet touching hundreds of millions of more--left-behind people who could stop India's advancement. This raises a key concern as globalization takes the world--including the US--to levels of economic and social inequality last seen in the 1920s. After Kris spoke, we were kind of stunned. So we decided: Tomorrow, let's get a car and driver and head out in search of the "other India," the vast section of the population not participating in India's boom. We had no plan, and a driver who didn't speak much English. Two hours out of Bangalore, we ended up in the village that you see in the piece. Since we showed up unexpectedly with two cameras, we got the scenes that you see thanks again to Tracey's ability to get people to open up on camera. I often think of the correspondent's role in this kind of situation as opening doors that the camera, and you the viewer, can then walk through, and Tracey did a world class job of that here.
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Really well done, guys. I continue to watch your work with admiration and pride. Thank you for looking at the big picture. It's really important.
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US companies shipping jobs back homeAccording to this LATimes article, "onshoring" is becoming more popular. -
well done piece!
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very nice pod.
one question ... no denying that the villagers featured have little money and are quite poor economically, but did you get a sense if they were happy / content ?
I wonder if the recent boom has at least helped in fringe areas not seen in pure income levels ... education, healh care .... and more than anything else, the promise of hope -
India has sunshine from September until June when the monsoon arrives. The country would benefit from new technologies for power. In the video one sees how small villages use hardly any resources, but could use easier access to water, and purification systems for their water. Solar energy could supply this. What is being done in India to advance the use of solar power?
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