The Lexicographer's Rules

"This is Radha Basu, General Manager of Hewlett Packard. She was sent to India to open their Bangalore office. She was telling me that all the officials wanted to know was: what is this thing called software that you are sending to the earth station. They kept telling her that they wanted a hard copy, that there were export regulations, so she just couldn't export something that was thin air! It had to be of a solid form. They were forced to put it all on diskettes, make back-ups, and export it physically so the Intelligence Bureau could record it. The guys at the other endÑin the USÑkept wondering why Radha was sending these things. They stacked all of it in the HP office there, calling the room Radha's warehouse."

—Tehelka. Chiddanand ÒChidduÓ Rajghatta is the author of The Horse That Flew: How India's Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings.

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