Interesting piece on the development in India and how it proceeds despite the government and public services.

What it looks like to try to issue biometric-based identification cards to a country with over a billion people. Contractors have already created a database of 1 million people, only 0.1% of the total population.

"I have often said that Rs 2000 is what I pay to my maid servant who comes to clean my house and wash the utensils twice a day. She works one hour and walks away with Rs 2000 a month. The poor farmer works 24x7 with his family of five members and yet is unable to earn more than what a maid servant makes in one hour of daily work. This is how we treat our farmers, our annadata."

The disparity between wealth and poor in India can be seen in the largest home in Mumbai.

India is in dire need of non-computer engineers to rebuild its aging infrastructure.

"For those who consider India’s Maoist insurgency a grave and urgent threat, the evidence keeps mounting."

"Indonesia now wants to raise its diplomatic game, acting the part of a regional power with a global impact. One sign of this is a desire to be ranked among the BRIC economic club of Brazil, Russia, India and China."