India's electronics industry is surging

To witness India's growing role as a manufacturing hub, dodge Bangalore's notorious traffic and head north. Around 45km outside the city, amid the dust and debris of construction, Foxconn, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, is turning 120 hectares of farmland into a factory that will produce around 20m iPhones a year. Foxconn's plant will be the third facility near Bangalore dedicated to churning out phones for Apple, an American tech giant. The other two are run by Tata, India's largest conglomerate. Bangalore, home to many of India's IT giants, is better known for its software than its hardware. However, the new…