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...regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, about one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian ceos. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million. The number of Indian American New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, is worth between $4 billion and $6 billion...
Demographics don't help. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single men outnumber single women in the Valley by almost 5,500. And even men who should have no problem attracting women--say, good-looking men worth millions of dollars--aren't dipping into the dating pool. Sabeer Bhatia, 31, the co-founder of Hotmail, made $200 million when he sold his company to Microsoft in 1998. Rather than retire, or even slow down, Bhatia founded another company, called Arzoo (a Hindi word for--what else?--passion). He has five cars, a penthouse apartment in San Francisco and a stream...
...least until that intensity turns to panic. "You do find some men in their 30s who suddenly realize they've spent too much time on their careers," DePalmo says. Bhatia, at least for the moment, remains sanguine. "I work 18 hours a day because it's fun," he says. "I've chosen a certain life, and I've been pretty successful. For right now, success and marriage don't really...
...Lastly, Bhatia mistakenly considers the entrance of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi an indicator of India's potential multiculturalism. Sonia Gandhi may be a loyal wife and a proper widow, but with no political experience whatsoever and negligible knowledge of India's needs, she has no place in Indian politics, and the Indian people know this: the enthusiasm of Sonia Gandhi's "record-breaking crowds" has not translated into votes in the current elections...
...failing to understand the historical reality of Congress rule and the platform of equal treatment for all citizens espoused by the BJP, Bhatia has presented a distorted caricature of the Indian political landscape. AKILESH PALANISAMY '98 March...