Inc Plots A decade and half after the onset of economic reforms, India gets a taste of commercial fiction with Piece of Cake, a book set in a thinly disguised Nestle India. Archna Shukla profiles the trend and the t-setting author, Swati Kaushal.

Business Today, September, 2005 by Archana Shukla, Supriya Shrinate, Muscles Mani, Roopali Joshi, Kushan Mitra, R.S.

The numbers have foretold it all along. India, for those who hadn't noticed, boasts a population in excess of a billion. A small proportion (but a large absolute number) go to good schools (mostly engineering ones), better B-schools, and then seek their fortunes in global corporations. Today, thanks largely to the mathematics of it all, there are several Indians in corner rooms of companies all over the world.

The same math would seem to indicate that an Indian will soon win Wimbledon, have a podium finish or two in Formula 1, even become the world's #1 golf player. Just as, applied to a ...