Do you know that India and China have as much population as that of “the next 20 largest countries combined”? Or that “some 80 per cent of the companies in Wal-Mart’s database of suppliers are now Chinese”? China and India are the focus of State of the World 2006 and China and India: Towards Global Economic Supremacy? Two power reads for the weekend to celebrate the `arrival to adulthood’ of two big economic populated nations, says D. Murali.