China, India, US hold lessons in the value of globalization

This column is not about politics, headline-grabbers or tweet addicts. It's about how some of the biggest stories could be beyond the headlines.

It's about how ordinary people are turning increasingly pragmatic, outgrowing politics and politicians' spin-laced narratives that pervade mainstream media and sometimes infect social media discourse.

At the end of the day, it seems, all that people in this globalized world really care about is their livelihood, progress, prosperity and happiness.