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[4 Jan 2007 | 5 Comments | 22 views]

In his profile, TIME Magazine’s International Newsmaker of the Year, Shri L N Mittal is quoted as saying, 
 
“Whether I’m Indian or the citizen of another country is irrelevant in this global environment”.
 
I do not know the context in which Shri Mittal said these words but I have mixed feelings about the remark.
 
While globalization (and L N Mittal’s ability to adapt to it is second to none) is of course a fact of our lives today, I do not think it needs to come at the cost of letting go of …