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...Indian from Bombay, I loved reading your stories about my home country [June 26]. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee, people are thinking about India. They want to know where Chennai and Hyderabad are on the map. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do a stint working in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But India must not allow corruption and bureaucratic incompetence to slow it down...
Your reporting stated that "Few modern Americans ... are shocked to hear how vital Indians have been to California's high-tech industry." With regard to outsourcing, you quoted an Indian executive's observation that "the jobs will go to those who can do them best, in the most cost-effective manner. Geography is irrelevant." So American workers are losing jobs to insourcing as well as outsourcing! We can't get a break. JOSEPH MICHAEL SIMASEK Morganton...
...Morales' party, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), won 139 of the 255 delegates elected to rewrite Bolivia's Constitution this year, starting in August. That process, said Morales, an Aymara Indian and Bolivia's first indigenous President, "will finally put an end to the discrimination, exploitation and economic inequality that has plagued this country since its founding." But Morales fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to control that assembly, something he had practically guaranteed he'd get. Instead, he'll now find himself having to make deals with parties like the main conservative opposition group, Podemos...
...Nambitha in Soweto. It has a vibe you can't quite get anywhere else, very friendly. Simon Robinson, Africa bureau chief, TIME The two blocks of shops in Old Melville include a couple of fantastic used-book stores. After browsing for forgotten classics, eat Thai (Soi is a favorite), Indian, Greek or Ethiopian (the newly opened Abyssinica), or have a drink at the Mozambican-flavored Xai Xai Lounge. If you don't linger you can catch a show at the Market Theatre in artsy Newtown...
...Javier Iglesias de Ussel Madrid Hail to the King I was impressed by Pico Iyer's essay about Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a member of the royal family who is admired by his Thai subjects and who in turn is full of patriarchal love for them [June 19]. Indian epics are full of royal heads who loved and cared for their subjects more than for their family members, but alas such benevolence is rare these days. Indians can only dream of a leader like Bhumibol who could steer the ship of state to a safe harbor rather than sailing...