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...United States into a superpower. The IIT system now includes seven campuses, and its graduates quickly became India's technological elite. A half-century later, their influence is almost as great in the U.S., where 25,000 of IIT's 100,000 graduates live. IIT grads include venture capitalists Vinod Khosla, Kanwal Rekhi and Yogen Dalal; former McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta; Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and 35 of the top 600 executives at GE. Silicon Valley couldn't run without them, and India's booming tech economy has opened up another world of opportunity. "You've almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reunion at the "MIT of India" | 7/9/2007 | See Source »

...Nithari slum since February 2005. Fifteen of them, including Bina, have since been identified by body parts and clothing found at the house. Many of the victims' torsos still have not been found, leading some investigators to speculate that the internal organs may have been harvested and sold. Dr. Vinod Kumar, who presided over some of the post-mortem investigations, remarked that the skulls seemed to have been removed from the bodies with medical precision. Photographs of Pandher posing with nude children, including one where he appears to be watching a dance performed by young, naked boys, have also been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Delhi, Murder Most Grisly | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...opportunity and an obligation to do something remarkable to save the planet," Clinton told the crowd of 5,000. "You are dangerously dependent on unstable sources of oil, and your air is too polluted." Silicon Valley bigwigs, including Google founder Larry Page and venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla - wagering that clean tech will be the next bonanza - have also ponied up several million in favor of the initiative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Big-Bucks Battle Over Clean Energy | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Vinod Khosla knows how to balance risk and reward. The billionaire venture capitalist built his career making improbable technology bets - and more often than not getting it right. As a founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Silicon Valley's storied venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Khosla and his colleagues backed some of the Internet's biggest sensations, like Google, Amazon, Excite and Netscape. Today, his deals assume a completely different type of risk: kicking America's dirty oil habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Green-Tech Venture Capitalist | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Family Welfare offers a range of programs, including advice and services for family planning. Indians are saving more, eating better and enjoying a higher standard of living than ever before. Yet India has its contradictions. It is important to remember that many people still live in extreme poverty. Vinod C. Dixit Ahmadabad, India I was impressed by your reporting on India's drive to become an economic superpower in the next decade. As an Indian living in the West, I know that India is still crippled by government ineptitude, graft and a weak infrastructure, but it has come a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Ascending | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

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