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Wherever you work these days, there's a good chance the computer network that carries your precious data is being maintained by an Indian computer engineer in Bangalore or Bombay. It's also likely that this engineer spends his days off-assuming his employers allow him any-watching the latest Bollywood movies. No reason to worry about any of this, right? There isn't as long as you don't read Hari Kunzru's new novel, Transmission, in which an unhappy Indian programmer is driven by job insecurity and his obsession with a Bollywood starlet to write a vicious computer...
...Transmission is Kunzru's follow-up to his debut novel, The Impressionist, which described the life of a half-English, half-Indian protagonist in colonial India. The success of that book-and the million dollar-plus advance the author reportedly received to write it-made Kunzru, now 34, one of the world's hot young authors. That has turned out not to be a curse. Half-English, half-Indian himself, Kunzru, a former technology writer for Wired magazine, has emerged as that rare phenomenon: a promising young author who exceeds his initial promise with his second novel...
...THIS: Since 1951 rancher Waldo Wilcox, 74, had kept most outsiders from his 4,200 acres in a rugged part of eastern Utah. So it was only last week that the public saw, for the first time, his pristine secret: the ruins of an ancient (circa A.D. 900) Fremont Indian civilization. Among the well-preserved treasures are stone houses, arrowheads, pottery and rock-wall artwork...
...seeing that many new people in this business," says Animation Bridge's Ghose. One problem, complains Rajesh Rao, the CEO of Dhruva Interactive, is that few of India's art schools and engineering colleges offer computer animation courses. Another barrier facing the industry is cultural. "The Indian mentality is that if I have to put my child into a science or engineering school, I am happy. But we don't want our children to go into art or culture as a profession," says Padmalaya's Sangari. The shortage of talent has raised concern that some clients could grow disillusioned with...
...India may not have much time to adapt. China, Russia and the Ukraine are rapidly emerging as rivals. One Indian executive laments that he just lost out on a contract unexpectedly after offering to do the job at the standard Indian rate of $4,000 per month for each animator; a Russian competitor undercut him, agreeing to do it for just $1,800 per person. India's schools will have to start churning out thousands of qualified animators each year?before a new generation of Russian and Chinese animators figures out the fine art of making cartoon bulls talk...