Years ago, when I was in graduate school at Duke, I studied Bihar state in India. Bihar is in northeastern India, next to West Bengal. One of the few shining lights in Bihar was Jamshedpur, named for Sir Jamshedji Tata. At that time, Tata was a big company by Indian standards, but had hardly been heard of elsewhere. Now, Daniel Gross is at the Colombian office of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), talking about Tata's involvement in other "third-world" countries, and how this is sign of progress for Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina, as well as for India.
My company has a branch in India - Verizon Data Services India, so I deal with people in the new high-tech world of the subcontinent often. One of the development directors whose people work on projects I manage just made a long trip to Chennai - I suppose he's back in Texas today, if the ash cloud hasn't interfered with his itinerary.
Once again, Gross shines a little light into a promising economic trend, and finds an example that connects to a lot of other developments around the world.
The other really interesting bit in this article is that Tata now owns Jaguar and Land Rover. It was bad enough when the essence of British automotive style was owned by Ford, but to think of Jaguar as being run from Jamshedpur ... the mind boggles.
Glenn A Knight
In my study
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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