Thanks Al, pal

It feels nice getting noticed. Ask Bajaj, or Nilekani or Mittal. It doesn't matter what you get noticed for: producing slipshod copies of someone else's idea, or doing the nuts-and-bolts work on someone else's design, or riding to success on someone else's backbone. It's a shame that these guys don't get due credit- ask any old fortysomething homemaker what brand would she associate with quality, and she'd instinctively reply -Kanjeevaram sarees. Ask any fifteensomething teenager about service and he'd point to his Kolhapuri chappals and not to Mittal. You won't even get info on the next train to Agra (oh those pedhas!) on those phones, he'd complain. Ask any wise sixtysomething paanwallah/stockbroker/babu about craftsmanship and he/they'd go on and on..about silks from Banaras or carpets from Kashmir or dhurries from Warangal or silverware from Bidar or ... I ask you, are these India's top brands? And to think that the folks who make those products aren't even qualified - have you ever heard of a tailor or a weaver or any of those other no-good charlatans learning his craft at institutions like NIFT or NID? How can anyone trust them?
But there does seem to be someone who actually trusts them, listens to them.Reads them. Even though he lives in a place other than my India. Thanks Al, hope to meet you someday in our India.