ISAS Briefs

Karnataka and Bangalore showed India the future by playing host to a then nascent, and now booming, information technology industry. It was in Bangalore, perhaps, that India's economic boom of the 1990s and the 2000s first began, back in the 1980s. The southern Indian state has, thus, been a symbol of India's economic drive and private entrepreneurship. In recent weeks, however, the state has been more in the news for its messy politics. Amidst all the intrigue and machinations of the politicians, the events in Karnataka, are perhaps an important pointer to the future of Indian politics, almost like the rise of the information technology industry was to the future of the Indian economy.