As I make my rounds from one vendor to another on the IT highway in Chennai, I am quite taken by the old and new Chennai. While driving on the physical highway my car has to fight for space with auto-rickshaws, cows, people and motor bikes. The road abruptly banks and becomes mud roads and then quickly transforms into clear sailing. Once inside the IT buildings, however, it is easy to imagine that you are in Boston or NY. The level of sophistication of the professionals, the processes and methodologies and the physical space itself was amazing.