Comments on: Chris Anderson Discovers India http://gigaom.com/2005/01/26/chris-anderson-discovers-india/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:11:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Aswath Rao http://gigaom.com/2005/01/26/chris-anderson-discovers-india/#comment-5617 Aswath Rao Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/01/26/chris-anderson-discovers-india/#comment-5617 <p>It feels like I am reading the customery series of articles written by a freshly appointed NYT correspondent: strong and tragic contrasts and such, soon to be followed by a sure prescription to cure all the ills (following the great tradition set by Naipul) and by the end of the journey a romantic description of the society and individuals who are all so noble and asking “why we can’t be all like that”. Oh well.</p> <p>Probably you know and have mentioned in one of your essays, the achievment of Coimbatore I admire is that this once water starved city managed to channel runoff water from the “ghats” to a reservoir so much so it is a rare city in Tamil Nadu that does not have water problem (at least when I knew of it). </p> It feels like I am reading the customery series of articles written by a freshly appointed NYT correspondent: strong and tragic contrasts and such, soon to be followed by a sure prescription to cure all the ills (following the great tradition set by Naipul) and by the end of the journey a romantic description of the society and individuals who are all so noble and asking “why we can’t be all like that”. Oh well.

Probably you know and have mentioned in one of your essays, the achievment of Coimbatore I admire is that this once water starved city managed to channel runoff water from the “ghats” to a reservoir so much so it is a rare city in Tamil Nadu that does not have water problem (at least when I knew of it).

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