ABSTRACT
The same year that Arundhati Roy sold millions of copies of The God of Small Things, another Indian, named Sabeer Bhatia, the inventor of Hotmail, made about $400 million from the sale of the e-mail service to Microsoft. More than half of the yearly Hl-B visas granted by the U.S. government go to Indian software programmers. It is the software writers from India rather than the fiction writers who are wired to the circuits of global production. Indeed, the needs of a cyber-linked universe has meant that Indians, even without having left their country’s borders, can now pretend that they are in the United States.
