New Delhi, May 21 -- If you work and live in the US, 7.45pm is quite past your typical dinner time. But, Sivaramakrishnan Somasegar (more on that oddly-spelt second name later), a senior vice-president at the world's largest software company, Microsoft Corp., is in New Delhi and is keeping local time. I get in a little early to our scheduled meeting at south Delhi's Jaypee Group-owned Vasant Continental.

Somasegar-or Soma to those who know him well or can get neither his four-vowel second name or six-vowel first name right-has been briefed well about Business Lounge and, as we walk to the hotel's coffee shop, we make small talk on the newspaper and why he likes what he sees. We are accompanied by Debjani Mukherjee and Stacy Drake, both M...