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Chutney and Sauce

In yet another op-ed piece from Bangalore, Tom Friedman argues that innovation is the secret of America’s sauce which enables it to maintain its lead. Of India he says,

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

Sure Bangalore has a lot of engineering schools, but the local government is rife with corruption; half the city has no sidewalks; there are constant electricity blackouts; the rivers are choked with pollution; the public school system is dysfunctional; beggars dart in and out of the traffic, which is in constant gridlock; and the whole infrastructure is falling apart. The big high-tech firms here reside on beautiful, walled campuses, because they maintain their own water, electricity and communications systems. They thrive by defying their political-economic environment, not by emerging from it.[Tom Friedman/NYT]

If Bangalore could get there in spite of all that, imagine what it can do if the government cleans up its act. Good, clean chutney can be as good as sauce.

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