I've spent the past few days in India launching some new products to our offices here. It's been a fascinating experience, to say the least. I now understand the true meaning of contrast.
In one moment you're in a glass skyscraper eating delicious Chinese food and the next moment there are shoeless children in rags rapping on your car window, begging for a few Rupees.
There are BMW's speeding past men on bicycles loaded with bundles of sticks and narrowly missing cows wandering the streets.
There are dirty streets lined with refuse juxtaposed with women in beautifully colored saris.
There are smiling powerful executives being served by emotionless hopeless servants.
There is spicy curry and extra spicy curry (please, no more curry!!)
There are slums and there are mansions.
It's truly an amazing culture... and I've learned a lot about the market and the way people operate. But I'm really looking forward to my flight home tomorrow -- back to the U.S. where contrastss aren't quite so sharp and where I can get brush my teeth without using bottled water.
