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Here is a shot of the view outside the office where I'm currently installed for half of each week. The office is in Sector 62 of developing Noida, a southern suburb of Delhi. Noida is filled with technology companies and malls in particular - one of which is almost attached to my hotel. I haven't been in yet, but it looks collossal from the outside. And they are putting another one up right across the street!

Apparently, when this company started up and the building was built, the land back here was all a flat, open expanse, but in the last five years, all the apartment buildings and technology companies that flank this construction zone have sprung up thanks to the industry need. It seems that many people live in apartment buildings that are actually housing complexes - enclosed areas where it is possible to have community interaction despite being in a city zone like this.

If you wach out the window during the day, you can see men in hard hats and women in full saris walking around on top of this unfinished building doing the construction work.