AN INDIAN entrepreneur has given a new twist to the concept of low-cost airlines. The passengers boarding his Airbus 300 in Delhi do not expect to go anywhere because it never takes off. All they want is the chance to know what it is like to sit on a plane, listen to announcements and be waited on by stewardesses bustling up and down the aisle.

What can you say, ignorance is bliss. Link via Megan McCardle.

You have to admire the resiliency of the entreprenuerial spirit in a country where for decades the yoke of socialism dragged down the lives of those already down. It’s easy to visit a tech park filled with foreign companies in Bangalore or Mumbai and think you are seeing India when in fact you are seeing a small corner of a big country.