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A nice article on Nola about Gurgaon, satellite town, 25 km from New Delhi, India’s most prolific outsourcing center stage where biggest of world’s brands rub shoulders against each others.

Writer says, if there is a microcosm of the New India, it is probably Gurgaon.

More in bullet points:

1. Thousands of fresh college graduates commute day and night to its cubicle offices, humming with work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
2. Gurgaon is an entirely new creation sprung from the era of Internet and telephone ubiquity.
3. Inside, the shopping centers look very much like American malls, except that many of the female mannequins are wearing saris and silk capes.
4. Typical stores include Benetton, Lee, Dockers, Nike, Arrow and Planet Sports, as well as a McDonald's.
5. A new superhighway and a metro line are being built to connect Gurgaon with New Delhi. They are likely to bring more explosive growth to an area that already suffers from a lack of long-range planning.

Read the article here

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