Not mangoes, not spices, not tea, not textiles. India’s biggest export is its CEOs

What on earth did the Banga brothers' mother feed them for breakfast? Whatever it was, it worked: Vindi Banga grew up to become a top executive at the food and personal-care giant Unilever, then a partner at the private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. His younger brother Ajay, after heading Citigroup's Asian operations, was last year named CEO of MasterCard — all without a degree from a Western business school and without abandoning his Sikh turban. When Ajay took over at the credit-card company's suburban — New York City headquarters, the Times of India crowed that he was the first "entirely India-minted executive" at a multinational's helm. 

The brothers laugh when asked for their mother's breakfast menu, deflecting suggestions that they were raised by a Bengal-tiger mom. Instead, they cite an itinerant childhood as a key ingredient in their success. The sons of a lieutenant general in the Indian army, they moved to a new posting every couple of years — perfect training, it turns out, for global executives facing new markets and uncertain conditions. "You had to adapt to new friends, new places," recalls Vindi. "You had to create your ecosystem wherever you went."

Carla Power in Time Magazine. Here

Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights And The Agrarian Crisis In India (PDF)

It is estimated that more than a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history. A great number of those affected are cash crop farmers, and cotton farmers in particular. In 2009 alone, the most recent year for which official figures are available, 17,638 farmers committed suicide—that’s one farmer every 30 minutes

A report by Center for Human Rights and Global Justice,
New York University School of Law. PDF version Here

Startling Facts : How Huge Indian Tech is..!

India, and particularly Indian tech, is blowing up.
But it's easy to lose track of just how big, and how fast the Indian market is growing. Thankfully this great presentation by Simon Kemp, via TheNextWeb, gives us some perspective.

The most striking theme is this: not only is India huge, but it's growing like gangbusters too.
So for example India now has 100 million internet users, almost half as big as the US. But unlike the US that's just 8% of the population and growing by 25% a year.
The report is full of great stats and facts like that.

An exciting report by Pascal -Emmanuel Gobry in Businessinsider. Here