India, Oct. 2 -- To most Indians, Albania, a tiny country in the Balkans is known for gifting us Mother Teresa. With a population of only 2.8 million, one fourth of it living in the capital Tirana, it is one of the least populated countries in Europe.

Though its pristine beaches and rugged Alps are great tourist attractions, it is also one of the most isolated countries in the world. The isolation became almost total between 1944 and 1985 under its communist dictator Enver Hoxha, when it cut ties with almost all countries which turned it into a subject of global curiosity. However, in the early 1990s, when the fall of the Berlin Wall set the winds of globalisation and liberalisation blowing freely over the entire globe, Albania changed i...