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An opposing viewpoint was found in a 2007 "Foreign Policy" magazine article in which Professor Pankaj Ghemawat argued that 90% of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are local, suggesting that Friedman has grossly exaggerated the significance of the trends he describes: "Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists." Indian development journalist P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor for The Hindu, says "it's not the 'world' that is flat, but Thomas Friedman's 'brain' is flat".