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HYDERABAD, INDIA, March 18, 2002: In late January the Indian subsidiary of an American company, Catalytic Software, moved into New Oroville, Catalytic’s township of dome-shaped dwellings an hour’s drive south of the technology city of Hyderabad in southern India. Ashok Kumar Madugula, a software developer who is one of the township’s first residents, has quickly adapted to the New Oroville lifestyle. He does not need to cook because he eats his meals in the company’s makeshift cafeteria. And he no longer needs to commute in the traffic in Hyderabad, a city of 4.2 million. Madugula, 25, graduated two years ago from Nagarjuna University in nearby Guntur. In an earlier era, like thousands of bright Indian developers before him, he would probably have migrated to the United States in search of a bank balance, Western work culture and material comfort, perhaps never to return. But Catalytic, in an effort to keep Indian talent at home or lure it back from abroad, has created New Oroville, offering many comforts of the West. Its proximity to Hyderabad is no accident. The city is famous for exporting thousands of programmers to the United States and is now an up-and-coming technology hub in its own right.

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