With a storied ancestry that includes the Indus Valley culture which, beginning 4,500 years ago, rivaled all other civilizations for more than a millennium - India, say economists and international observers, is emerging from the world's shadows to become a global player in trade, technology, and political influence. One of the most striking changes in India observed during three weeks of travel, from Kerala in the south to this capital of 17 million people in the north, was the country's new tone: a vocabulary of confidence, a word used over and over to describe today's Indian psyche. "India now has the confidence of a rising power. It has become part of the long-term global balance of power," said C. Raja Mohan, an analyst and editor of The Indian Express Newspapers. "The world is going to be a very different place in the next 20 years, and the US, India, and China - not Europe - is where the action is going to be economically." And yet, India, home t...