A Passage From India

Indian-Americans were once viewed as the people who did the jobs nobody wanted; now they're just as likely to be the high flyers with the dot-com dream jobs. Not only that, it's suddenly no longer a surprise to find Indians in the pantheon of (thinking) America's celebrities. From publisher Sonny Mehta and McKinsey & Co. managing director Rajat Gupta to alternative health guru Deepak Chopra and Academy Award-nominated director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense"), the influence of Indian immigrants over American society is growing, not least because tens of millions of Americans make daily use of an Internet whose growth and maintenance has relied heavily on Indian brainpower.

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