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China's Talent War? Hardly!

The TIME magazine is an interesting establishment. You write to asialetters@timeasia.com - hoping that you will have your letter published in the subsequent issue, but that does not happen. Forget about that. You don't even get an acknowledgement or rejection - even after you ask them multiple times. Anyway, this post is about my reaction to an article in TIME, not the magazine. I was on my way back from one of the customary trips to China, when I came across this article about the employee retention challenges in China ['China's Talent War', May 28, TIME]. It was a deja-vu moment. Replace 'China' with 'India' and turn the clock back 5 to 10 years (or even keep the same timeframe), and you will find an almost exact article in some of the archives. It is rare to find an article in TIME magazine with such palpable lack of real research - apart from what can only be considered as coffee-table conversations - or of reference to any published material o