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 24, 2005

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

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

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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.

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 Koth...

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