You do not have to spend much time at the offices of Biocon, a biotechnology firm on the outskirts of Bangalore, to learn a thing or two about the state of India today. A few minutes inside is long enough to ascertain that Biocon is state-of-the-art, part of a high-tech boom that has appeared to lift India above the level of an impoverished third-world giant. Yet a glance at the frenetic construction site outside, hiving with human activity, tells you that although Biocon may be thriving, India remains poor. The rubble is shifted not by bulldozers but by the sari-clad women seen all over India who carry it in baskets on their heads.
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