The World is Indeed Flat...but not smooth...

The international best seller book "The World is Flat", by Thomas Friedmann speaks of globalization and its impact on the 21st century.He suggests the world is "flat" in the sense that globalization has leveled the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries. In his opinion, this flattening is a product of a convergence of personal computer with fiber-optic micro cable with the rise of work flow software. He termed this period as Globalization 3.0, differentiating this period from the previous Globalization 1.0 (which countries and governments were the main protagonists) and the Globalization 2.0 (which multinational companies led the way in driving global integration).He details on his visit to the silicon valley of India,Bangalore that boasts of world class corporates like GE,Google,Infosys..well the list is endless.
But my experience of Bangalore on the contrary was a city that's double sided, one with glit and glamour of the corporate and just behind the ITPL(International Tech Park) I saw a huge dump yard of plastics and e-waste.I was on my way to the GE Global Research campus for my internship.To my dismay I saw 3 kids , half naked,coming out of the dump yard with an innocent smile on their face holding plastic bags filled with batteries and other electronic wastes.

There 's a grand debate on the issue of inclusive growth to reduce the growing disparity in economic growth doing its rounds everytime the nation approaches an election.60 years down the lane we still havent reached a stage where we can provide our children a basic standard of living.Mr.Friedmann is right the world is getting flatter with all the high tech gadgets and fiber optics ,but long way to go before it gets smooth....