Thinking back to this tour de force of an article in Fortune Magazine dated May 15, 2000. It was titled “The Indians Of Silicon Valley”. Click here for the full article or read it below:
Jawahar Lal Nehru was the first prime minister of Independent India. He served from August 1947 till his death in May of 1964. He was Mahatma Gandhi’s chosen favorite. He spoke for all Indians when he gave his “Tryst with Destiny speech” on the eve of the independence:
Mauritius is an Island in South Indian Ocean, about 300 miles off the coast of Madagascar. It is an odd former British Colony that mostly speaks French and is almost 80% ethnic Indian. It is interesting to see Indians greeting and speaking to each other in French. It has a population of a little more than a million. On average, a Mauritian is three time as a rich as an Indian.