From pole to pole.... Thomas Friedman says that 9/11 did not kill globalization. I tend to agree.

That truth is most striking in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, where hundreds of thousands of young Indians, most from lower-middle-class families, suddenly have social mobility, motor scooters and apartments after going to technical colleges and joining the Indian software and engineering firms providing back-room support and research for the world's biggest firms - thanks to globalization. Bangalore officials say each tech job produces 6.5 support jobs, in construction and services.

Compare the most and least globalized parts of India, and you will see that those connected to the rest of the world do better (the deep south and the Hindi heartland can be thought of as two antipodes on this scale). Certainly India is still a grotesquely poor country, but anti-globalists need to understand that development happens in steps, not in a giant leap willed by good intentions or central planning. In the end, India and China will be the engines of globalization. The question is now not if the world will be interconnected, but when. The anti-globalist movement needs to reorient itself to address problems that globalization brings, such as the synchronization in business cycles that that results in world-wide recessions, rather than opposing the inevitable march of history. Addendum: I don't want to come off as someone who waxes with glee about the spread of multinational companies. I want to clarify that I think globalization's value is the utilization of talent all across the world-the freeing of individuals from rules and restrictions. India's federal system is good because individual states can compete and experiment with different models (socialist West Bengal and Kerala, free-market Karnataka, etc). Multinationals can always extract what they want out of governments, the two are simply the left hand and the right of the bureaucratic class. "Protections" for native industries and classes invariably work to entrench local elites, the withdrawal of protections rips away the security of these elites, and allows them to flourish, or be displaced by others (the lower middle-class programmers mentioned above) who can work in the global marketplace.