If Google ever made a list of the most researched topics on their search engine, my bet would be on Globalization.

So what is this vague topic that has the whole world talking about it? The fact that there is no one universal definition to globalization, allows it to be categorized as vague. To me Globalization would be the interconnection of various man made divisions of the world called nations, in to a more global set up. Countries without borders would automatically develop exchange of various cultures. Globalization could be the exchange of political and economic views between nations. According, to Steger globalization is a contested concept or a phenomenon that can change according to ones personal experience of it. Globalization according to me is the best thing that has happened to us. But what has been a key factor to the birth of globalization and how? Global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections are made through advances in technologies such a communication satellites .Advances in technologies such as this makes many borders irrelevant and lead to the birth of globalization (Steger). My essay would also touch upon a few questions of the critics and skeptics against globalization. I would like to argue whether globalization has increased or decreased inequality in developing countries such as India and China. India and China have been erupting as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. China has been growing at 9.5 percent and India at 6.3 percent yearly (mahtaney). Globalization has had a big role to play in the growth of nations such as these. How Globalization helped in the growth of the two Asian giants? In spite of China being a growing economy, its government being communist still has control over the censorship of internet sites including online press to its citizens. India being a traditional country, the role of the government in media control.

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Kohli, Vanita. The Indian Media Business. New Delhi: Response, 2006. Print. The author through her book helps provide vital and in depth information about the media or communication technology in India. She also touches upon the effect of globalization on media technology and vice-versa. This book is essential to my research about the background of Indian media and communication technology to the growth of the nation.

Mahtaney, Piya. India, China and Globalization: The Emerging Superpowers and the Future of Economic Development. Basingstoke [England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print. The author in this provides a broad and factual detail of India and China emerging as super powers. She provides statistics to prove of the rapid growing economies of the two countries. Through this book you understand the role globalization has had to play in the economic development of both the countries. This book is important source to prove the fact of India and China as emerging super powers.

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Steger, Manfred B. "Globalization:A Contested Concept." Globalization. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. 1-18. Print. The author in this book discusses the term globalization. He states that there cannot one universal definition for globalization. He helps explain globalization right for the very basis and gives a very clear idea, aiding to understand globalization .This source is very essential to the introduction of my essay and the first question of my essay topic i.e. "what is globalization?"

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