After being the richest person in the world for 13 years, Bill Gates slipped to the third spot in the list of world's richest.
As the major world media noted, we did very well on the Forbes list. Even though Indians are only (!) about 17.5% of the world population, 40% of the ten richest people in the world are Indians! Just noticed that the combined net worth of these 4 Desis (USD 160 billion) is more that the projected revenue of the Indian Government (~USD 149 billion) for year 2008-2009!
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Thought it was quite sensational, Gopa. Thanks for blogging this.
If you use the octal system, we are like 50% [4 out of the first 8] ;-)
Guess India has finally arrived at the party; quite late, but as Burt Reynolds says in some movie: "That's what my girlfriend likes about me; I always come late"!
Jokes apart, i think this is just the precursor to Bejan Daruwalla's pred'n that the 21st century belongs to India.
Thanks Raama! I hope that Mr. Daruwalla was sober when he made the prediction, and that he is right:-) Not sure if rich getting richer is a definite indication of progress. It sure is comforting to notice that our average seem to be getting richer.
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