It may have seemed implied in the previous post that looking backwards is the only amazement India offers.  Not so.  To outsiders and locals alike, in India sometimes the Shock of the New is the only path forward. This week in The New Yorker there is an article (click on the image to the left to read the abstract, but either full subscription or pay-per-article is required for the full text) about one of India’s many new billionaires, and his private sector approach to a moonshot.

We could distinguish his approach from the entrepreneurial bootstrapping initiatives we highlight on this sight in a few obvious ways (ok, a few billion obvious ways), but why bother? We need only say we like it.  And in a place with thousands of years of experience making things work against all odds, we can also say we have hope.  Even optimism.