India's New Incarnation

As the Internet bridges distances, a protectionist nation seizes the chance to deliver skills to market

Rakesh Dubey did what many young Indians have done to get a future: he went abroad. In this case, it was to the U.S. for a master's degree in genetics. Then Dubey made a major mistake. He went home to find a job. "I would have taken anything, anywhere in India," he says--but 80 job applications, many to multinational seed companies needing geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would he come back?'" Girls...

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