Brain-drain to brain-gain (2)

Thanks to all the readers who made my earlier blog of the same title a big hit, I'm motivated to write this sequel to my blog, like they do it all the time for blockbuster movies. I hope the readers, especially the critics, will find answers to most of the questions that were raised in comments on my earlier blog. The main thrust in this blog is to dispel the notion that there is anything like IT engineers in US v/s IITs in India- they are both on the same side and working hand in hand to make India shining.

Initially, hardly any Western executives would dare explore India for IT outsourcing- what, isn't it just a land of snake charmers and fables where corporate westerner would feel lost in the culture, people, bureaucracy, red tape and get scared off by food poisoning and lack of infrastructure. They were the Indian- born, successfully integrated IT professionals in the West, that paved the way to and for India- built the first partnership with Indian outsourcing firms, helped open the Bangalore offices for their US IT firms. They were the perfect and trustworthy bridge for US companies to send back to India to set up shop there. Check out the bio-data for all the Indian heads for IBM, Microsoft, Sun, HP, Intel,..., all studied in US, worked for parent companies in US, then helped open up their offices in India. Ofcourse, great brains existed within India itself from IITs and elsewhere that started Wipro, Tata, Satyam and the likes. This Indian success was the result of the perfect marriage of those engineers in India and the Indian-born engineers settled in the West, together influencing and convincing the West to take the first chance, the first step offshore in India, the land of the high-tech brains and top software engineers, and not the land of snake charmers.

This blog is to bring positive ANAND only.