"There may still be more bullock carts in rural India than bicycles; there surely are still infinitely more bullock carts than there are small tractors. But what powers India's Green Revolution, what has given the subcontinent a food surplus for the first time in its thousands of years is not the digging stick or the wooden plow. It is the ubiquitous gasoline pump in the Tube well and the irrigation ditch of an arid land."