The document discusses the growing field of analytics and some questions around its development and applications. It notes that analytics is now used across many business functions and domains, including human resources, e-business, retail, and more. It also compares the growth of the analytics industry in India to the previous growth of the IT and ITES industries. Finally, it poses several discussion points around whether India can replicate the success in analytics that it had in IT, what challenges developing analytics talent may pose, and what sectors and drivers may lead future growth in analytics.