When economists, share tippers and money folks talk about the strength of the US economy or the London FTSE, pass them by and think about turbo-turbanned India! It is the anticipated growth of the sub-continent that encouraged me to swap posts and links with the simple and very well organised Free ads for Bloggers directory.

Indian potential for bloggers

The massive Asian economy is growing at a faster rate than either US or UK powerhouses can match, and it promises to be a racy future ahead for the intrepid former British colonists, especially the IT fraternity.

He presents in very clear and simple terms how his link exchange idea will work and the benefits to both parties - always a sign of a good salesman!

It is in essence, a blog with a directory in the form of a blogroll. Unlike many directories, Freeads for bloggers is therefore remarkably clean and simple to navigate.

Hamrash was also open-minded enough not to insist that we had his flashing button displayed on our homepage. Let us hope his derring-do will result in plenty of traffic. If you read on about the possibilities of India in the coming years, you will see that you could do worse than sew some seeds with him and get linking.

If Hamrash at Free ads for bloggers does well, then maybe we will too. 1 billion hits a day would be a nice problem to pose to our server admins at A small orange

India v China

India are technically in competition with China, but not really. Indians are doing their own thing in the sub-continent, building on high levels of education and literacy. They are also being good humanitarian boys and girls, as far as you can in a country with a caste system. Meanwhile the Chinese are building on their high levels of cheap labor and excellent prison system. They may be chopping off the hands of dissenting citizens, but nothing is halting Beijing's annual double digit growth. Go, human rights, go! Neither country is yet outsourcing to the other, so it is fair to say they are still trading in isolation.

India 1 China 0

One advantage India has over China is the level of English spoken. They have mastered the universal tongue. Who hasn't spoken to a service center in Delhi yet? Well, ring a number at Apple Customer Service, and surely your dream will come true. Precise instructions on how to dissemble your computer will not be forthcoming, but you will have a lovely chat with Brad from the burbs. You may even get to meet his brothers too, who also work at the service center as software engineers, programers, designers...

The future in India is bright and rosy

Yes, if the Pisstakers can get a foothold in India via the Free blogger ads directory, hint hint the future could be a very rosy tea-color. As out-and-out philanthropists, it would also provide us with plenty of opportunity to reinvest our blogging earnings. We are going to target stocks in a few ailing Western companies, the good ones beaten into submission by hungrier, more focussed Indian competitors.

The Apple range curries favour

I think Apple may be a good bet for a takeover in 2020, when Jobs and Ives step back. Move HQ from Cupertino to Calcutta and rename the corporation The Sacred Cash Cow Company. All it needs for a final makeover is to rebrand their range of computers - the Mac Vindaloo will be the screaming fast 24-core octuplet Ram Jam Singh tri-processor; the Mac Madras will be a slightly less meaty version perhaps with just 6 processors, and the wussy Tandoori Mac miniscule will sport the holographic "Chapati" chip. That package should hold up well against the slick plastic Shanghai Dell-so range.

It's all good

Love and business both operate in a big circle, so don't worry, the West will rise back from the ashes like IE12 is predicted to win again against Firefox 2.1. The west will reclaim its economic crown and go forward once more. In the meantime, we will proudly display the grotesque GIF button from Free Ads for Blogs here at The pisstakers for posterity - and it will serve as a reminder of our foresight when we look back in 2020 and gauge how far we have come.