The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
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Episode The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
India’s tech hub Bangalore has experienced huge growth of companies and employees in the past two decades. But the city’s infrastructure is not keeping up with such rapid growth. With the tech sector contributing more than $300bn to the nation’s economy, what happens to the country’s growth if Bangalore can’t solve its issues? The FT’s Mumbai bureau chief Chris Kay and Mumbai correspondent Krishn Kaushik travelled to Bangalore to try to find out.
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For further reading:
The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
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