CAN CRICKET CAUSE A COMPUTER CRISIS? - INSIGHT INDIA

Many of today's well-known Indian cricket players came up the hard way. By breaking neighborhood windows. Parents defended their right to do so against all comers, including the ill and elderly. Those parents' only concern was the physical well-being of their children.

With the new Indian Premier League's auction buying up cricket players for up to 1.5 million dollars, the situation has changed dramatically. Parents - who hope to float in the moolah - are encouraging every little twerp (who needs his mother to pull up his white cricket trousers) to go out and crack the ball. And windows.

What does this trend mean for India's future? Will it be Cricket! Cricket! all the way? Will we in the years ahead have to outsource software jobs to America? Very sad. A sure way to economic suicide - as Americans are slowly learning today.
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CRAZY GLOBALIZATION - INSIGHT INDIA

Imagine a country where any time mobs start running on the streets. And the stoning and burning begins. For any reason. Like sharing water resources with a neighbor state in the same country. Or antipathy to migrants from other parts of the country. Imagine a country where no political party feels any guilt about going on a rampage in towns and destroying public and private property and hurting people. Imagine that country building more and more glass malls and offices. Perfect targets for violence.

That's globalizing India today. And if that's not crazy, what is? (For more India Realities stories see www.myspace.com/india_realities & www.ibibo.com/wahpmji)