In the local media, however, the legal battle is being characterised as another outbreak of class conflict stoked by the boom in the technology industry.

Backers of one former darling of the fleetingly fashionable green technology industry stood fast.

Another former darling of the fleetingly fashionable green technology industry teetered on the edge of collapse yesterday.

Bangalore is the main centre of India's booming high technology industry.

But he fears that his adopted country and homeland do not and argues that this holds back the technology industry and their economies.