Samir Kapadia seemed to be on the rise in Washington, moving from an internship on Capitol Hill to jobs at a major foundation and a consulting firm. Yet his days, he felt, had become routine.
Meanwhile, friends and relatives in India, his native country, all in their early to mid-20s, were telling him about their lives in that newly surging nation. One was creating an e-commerce business, another a public-relations company, still others a magazine, a business incubator and a gossip-and- events website.