William B. Plowman /NBC Thomas Friedman, a columnist with The New York Times, in this Oct. 21, 2012, file photo.New York Times Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman has been a regular visitor to India for a decade.
During his travels here and in China, he developed his widely followed theory of the inevitability of globalization, and the need for businesses and individuals to adapt to the accompanying changes. In India, he met former Infosys chief executive Nandan Nilekani, who coined the phrase “The world is flat,†which became the title of Mr. Friedman’s best-selling 2005 book.
A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Mr. Friedman was a correspondent in Washington, Beirut and Jerusalem before leaving the news side of The Times for its editorial side, becoming the paper’s foreign-affairs Op-Ed columnist in 1995.
This week, Mr. Friedman is in India on what has become an almost annual pilgrimage, meeting with a wide range of business executives and government officials. He will be a keynote speaker at the Sustainable Development conference in New Delhi on Friday.
Later this week, Mr. Friedman will also take questions from India Ink readers about India’s role in the global economy, and the changes he has seen in that role in recent years.
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