ENTERPRISE
The write idea
From a tiny Web site that owes it origins to an email group started by ex-IIM Calcutta guys, sulekha.com today gets about one million hits a month. As founder Satya Prabhakar explains, 'When you let people talk, you hold them back into the community. The amount of stickiness that we have for our site is extraordinary.'

THE ARTS
US will face shortfall of 850,000 IT workers over next year
The demand for IT workers in the States over the next 12 months will increase to about 1.6 million, according to a study, 'Bridging the Gap: IT Skills for a New Millennium,' just released by the Information Technology Association of America.

RECENT FEATURES
Jhumpa Lahiri wins Pulitzer
Her Interpreter of Maladies has been awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her perhaps the first Indian to win the prestigious US prize.

The spectre of imagined suffering
Any honest assessment of the Indian immigrant experience, especially in the 1990s, must conclude that the spectre of suffering that we are asked to beware of is mostly imaginary. Nobody is out to get us, even if there were an us in the first place, says Ashwin Mahesh.

'India is fast becoming one of the world's software superpowers'
'Indian Americans now run more than 750 companies in Silicon Valley alone. Now, we are moving from brain drain to brain gain in India, because many are coming home.' President Clinton hails Indian enterprise in America.

How blind can we be?
'How fair is it to give this boy preference over thousands of Indians who have been waiting up to three years for their families to be reunited? Why is Elian more important than Indian hi-tech workers who are trapped in H-1B hell?' asks Reeta Sinha.

Indian siblings fifth in Inventions Challenge
Amit and Anjali Behal devised the Diabetes Sentry Bracelet that can detect a condition called hypoglycaemia or low blood sugar. 'We know diabetes is a big problem and many people die in their sleep because of low blood sugar levels,' said Amit, 14 and diabetic.

The smog stretches from Lahore to Delhi
Although there are over 150 million Muslims living in India, there is a perceived equation, on both sides of the border, of India with Hindus.

Ex-academic rocks London bourse with start-up
Prof Madan Singh's software uses mathematical models to find the optimum price at which goods can be sold without discouraging would-be customers and stopping them from buying. 'This is not a dotcom. We have products based on strong technology with global potential,' he says.

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