Deep Throat: July 2015

I wanted to take a moment to thank many of you for your wonderful commentary on my "India" post a few weeks ago. As always, I appreciate your feedback. I also want to take a minute to post a couple of comments from a colleague and friend, Dr. Agrawal, who is a professor at one of our Universities here in Ohio. Here is the text of his e-mail:

"Very nice and accurate observations. On the top of it nicely described. I would suggest to add few pictures from modern India, which, I will share if you like, you may not have visited those places. These pictures will probably support your theory for India- the emerging global power. Its up to you. Please allow me to share your write-up with my University students, which I am taking in Dec -2015. Our 3-credit course is also on Global Health and Emerging India. Very well done."

Of course, the intent of my post was to describe the enormous potential just below the surface in India coupled with how truly difficult is to conduct e-commerce and logistics in Asia. I wanted to visually illustrate the roadblocks that need to be overcome before real growth and productivity can be achieved in much of Asia. That said, I'm posting the above referenced pictures in additional support of my "India....the next economic superpower" thesis. I hope you enjoy the pictures that Dr. Agrawal forwarded to me....they truly are beautiful.