Wednesday, April 14, 2004
The obvious musing for the day is how this generation of indians is literally all over the world..
It just hit me today when I was talking to a buddy from college who I learnt is in Seattle. As it often happens when two old friends meet we play the "who is where and doing what" charade ..
Believe it or not almost 90% of the people were not in India .. they were in London , NewYork , a couple in Australia , Ireland, Singapore,Belgium, even in South Africa ..
And this is not only in IT , I was speaking to my mother this weekend and I was enquiring about all my childhood friends and no surprise there too , they are working in 10 different countries,not necessarily in IT .
All this when I thought that things were great in India and everyone would want to stay in India itself.. Ofcourse many of them are not working at these places as a permanent worker there but more on deputation for a project from an Indian company.
Also as far as those came to study in US the situation is a little different with many of my friends going back because of a very tight job market , especially for foreign students..However in US too, as I mentioned above, many of my friends have come on work visas sponsored by their Indian companies..
As I always say the rise of IT in India IS great as it has given every young Indian a chance to lead a better quality of life , which is fundamentally what development is all about in my opinion... Ofcourse it can have some unintended effects too.. ¶ permalink
It just hit me today when I was talking to a buddy from college who I learnt is in Seattle. As it often happens when two old friends meet we play the "who is where and doing what" charade ..
Believe it or not almost 90% of the people were not in India .. they were in London , NewYork , a couple in Australia , Ireland, Singapore,Belgium, even in South Africa ..
And this is not only in IT , I was speaking to my mother this weekend and I was enquiring about all my childhood friends and no surprise there too , they are working in 10 different countries,not necessarily in IT .
All this when I thought that things were great in India and everyone would want to stay in India itself.. Ofcourse many of them are not working at these places as a permanent worker there but more on deputation for a project from an Indian company.
Also as far as those came to study in US the situation is a little different with many of my friends going back because of a very tight job market , especially for foreign students..However in US too, as I mentioned above, many of my friends have come on work visas sponsored by their Indian companies..
As I always say the rise of IT in India IS great as it has given every young Indian a chance to lead a better quality of life , which is fundamentally what development is all about in my opinion... Ofcourse it can have some unintended effects too.. ¶ permalink
