Making claims that India is surely is big and rich enough to afford these big masterpieces like that in Singapore, HongKong and Malaysia is completely unfounded and misplaced. The economies of these countries are better than us by a mile. India needs architecture that is ecologically sensitive and one that propagates novel aesthetic values. Such architecture can only emerge out of our tradition but not through (I agree) replication of it. That is why Chrles Correa is among India's best architects. the Foster's, Pei's and Hadid's cannot provide us with that. We need architecture like the the Godrej building in Hyderabad that has got the world's green building award (the building is designed by Karan Grover). The article also should not be making such unwarranted (thoughtless) claims that there are any good architect's like Correa and Doshi. And the countries that have employed the strategy of getting foriegn architects are today reeling under their harmful effects of energy consumption. China, considering what it is on the way to colapse anyway. it is killing its tradition and copying west blindly.
