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The World is Flat

If Books Could Kill

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The Myth of Columbus

The book opens with a vignette from the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. The author says he wanted to understand why Indians were an important pool for outsourcing work in America and other industrialized countries. He writes that his experience is similar to Columbus in some ways and different in others. "I can't tell you how much I cut out of this four pages"

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