Hong Kong

In the three months that 19-year-old Sujey Subramanian (above, first row, second from right), a Stanford undergraduate student, spent in India this summer working at Tata Consultancy Services, India's first billion dollar information technology company, he has found two things strange: arranged marriage, and the work culture.

"I can't understand how arranged marriages work. And I can't understand how employees stay as late as 11 pm at work everyday on weekdays and sometimes on weekends too," he says.

Sujey, who has lived most of his life outside India, is getting his first exposure to corporate and urban India through his internship at TCS, where he is involved in helping create the business plan for a new banking software product that the company is exploring.

Born in Chennai, Sujey moved to Hong Kong when he was two. After a high school degree there, he picked Stanford to get a dual degree in economics with management science and engineering. But he opted to return to India for his brush with the corporate world.