The Horse That Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings by Chidanand Rajghatta is a greatly appealing book about the history of the growth of the industry of information technology in India and the significant influence of immigrants that are Indian-American to the information technology industry of America. The writer, Chidanand Rajghatta, is an experienced journalist. He is the correspondent for Washington for the biggest daily circulation of the English-language paper, The Times of India.
The first chapter, “The Mouse That Roared”, zeros in on the growth of the information technology industry of India and its rise from a mere $50 million in the early nineties to an astounding $6 billion just a decade later. The first half of the decade of growth is mostly due to hard work for prime companies from America such as Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments.
In the next chapter, “The Cats That Stalked”, is an outline of Indian information technology professional’s history, such as who was first to come to San Francisco in the early sixties.
In the book, the author selects four superstar Indian-American entrepreneurs from the eighties and nineties and devotes a chapter to each one of them.