This week's New Scientist has a special report on India - which it dubs "the next knowledge superpower. It includes a few articles on India's burgeoning technology industry, and the growth of Bangalore as a rival to - and Asian partner of - Silicon Valley.
Companies are choosing Bangalore for one main reason: the availability of good computer-science professionals. "We weren't able to hire enough good-quality engineers in Silicon Valley," [co-founder of Google Labs India and inventor of Google News Krishna] Bharat says. The concentration of high-tech companies in the city is unparalleled almost anywhere in the world. At last count, Bangalore had more than 150,000 software engineers - approaching the kind of numbers only Silicon Valley can boast.
The whole report is worth a read if you get the time.
