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...jobs to insourcing as well as outsourcing! We can't get a break. Joseph Michael Simasek Morganton, North Carolina, U.S. Your reporting got bogged down in Bombay and Bangalore, but no description of booming India could be complete without a look at such cities as Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh and Jaipur. After all, northern India encompasses the wonders of the Taj Mahal, a growing software industry and the country's first shopping malls for the average consumer. Jayanti Jha Chandigarh, India You did not mention one of the greatest reasons for India's economic success: of the country's hundreds...
...commanding seat. Asia is emerging as a new power center, so it is natural for the continent's youth to focus on academic excellence. In order to produce world-class business leaders, the Asian parents and their children are becoming the devotees of goddess Saraswati. Jagdish M. Ovasdi Jaipur, India...
...Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into one of a dozen look-alike buildings. We go up the labyrinthine stairs and suddenly arrive in a tidy workshop with a magnificent view of Jaipur. "What are you cutting?" De Taillac asks here and at other workshops, but today she's not buying. "If I bought my stones in the market, they would be cheaper," she explains, "but I would have to take an entire lot, including ones I can't use. At Gem Palace...
...Mumbai Diamond Exchange, the somewhat glorified name for three office towers that have seen better days, is much more orderly than anything in Jaipur. On the ninth floor of the Panchratna tower, dealer Sunil Sethi of SK Exports flicks princess-cut and round-cut diamonds with tweezers without looking up. Every day he sees samples from about 35 brokers, who carry the stones in flat plastic boxes tucked into special cotton undervests...
...women like to browse the aisles, while men prefer to shop with a purpose. In India you can buy Burmese rubies on the streets of Jaipur. In Japan young girls buy entire outfits at Tokyo fashion shows with the flick of their cell phones. Shopping will always be a social interaction, but as Internet commerce grows exponentially, it's increasingly a technological one too. Here is TIME's global guide to the 21st century consumer