India leapfrogs out of poverty
It is engaging in a rapid digitisation of its entire economy and power grid.
IN a recent MSNBC interview, I described US President Donald Trump as a "brain-eating disease". I did so because his indecent behaviour and nonstop outrageous tweets and actions force you, as a commentator, into a terrible choice: either ignore it all and risk normalising Mr Trump's excesses or write about him constantly and risk not having the time to learn and report about the big trends now reshaping the world - trends that one day will surprise your readers and leave them asking, "Why didn't I know this?"
To inoculate myself against Mr Trump eating my brain, I occasionally get as far away as I can. This time, it was to India -…
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