The first Indian prime minister to serve two consecutive terms since Nehru, it’s been Singh, a 77-year-old economist, who has kept India’s tiger economy growling. Responsible for leading one of every six people on earth, Singh has done so as a Sikh, a minority in India. His ability to avoid the stain of corruption has also earned him praise. An professor with a knack for politics—think India’s Josiah Bartlet—Singh has thrived on the world stage. “Anyone who can obtain a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford and successfully manage the world’s largest democracy has to be the smartest person in the world,” says one of our MacArthur voters, Loren H. Riesenberg of Indiana University.

Is text based CAPTCHA dead? It’s definitely in pain thanks to evil marketers recruiting low-waged Indian data processing workers, who according to some of the statistics obtained, earn over ten times more while solving CAPTCHAs, than through their legitimate data processing jobs.

Why this mad, insane plan to travel across India in a caravan of solar electric cars and jatropha trucks with solar music, art, dance and a potent message for climate solutions? Well … the world needs crazy ideas to change things, because the conventional way of thinking is not working anymore.

L’exemple de l’Inde suggère plus encore que nous, entreprises et citoyens de l’OCDE, avons précisément tout à gagner à œuvrer avec eux. Cent millions d’urbains supplémentaires sont attendus dans les 20 ans à venir, et 200 millions de ménages indiens auront partiellement renouvelé leur logement. Si les techniques et matériaux de la maison écologique sont aujourd’hui prohibitifs, c’est précisément cette masse, ces nouveaux marchés, qui permettront l’entrée de l’écologie dans l’ère industrielle en abaissant les coûts. C’est toujours le nombre qui permet à une révolution technique de se transformer en révolution industrielle. L’Asie est une chance unique de financer à moindre coût unitaire la « révolution industrielle écologique »