IT's Next Big What? Ace venture capitalist Promod Haque believes Pune is the next Silicon Valley. The city's activists are sure that frenetic unplanned development will spell its doom. Somewhere between the two, Priya Srinivasan discovers, is the reality of Pune's future.

Business Today | October 9, 2005| | Copyright

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

En route from Pune to Mumbai, 5.30 p.m.

The epiphany doesn't come till our ride out of Pune, but when it does, it arrives suddenly. It's raining and both driver and car are focussed on getting out of Pune city and on to the Mumbai-Pune expressway and its promise of a two-hour ride home. Then, I am in Kothrud. To the right is the suburb itself, all glass and chrome, screaming affluence from every window of every high rise (there are lots of both, windows and high rises). To the left is a sprawling shanty town that progressively climbs the hill against which it is ...

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